Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) $1 billion investment in Chinese ride sharing company Didi Chuxing intensifies a race to acquire technology, talent and market access in a rapidly evolving global personal transportation market. Apple's investment comes as auto and technology industry executives and investo...
A co-founder of Liberty Reserve, which operated a widely-used digital currency, was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday after agreeing to help authorities prosecute his ex-partner for helping cyber criminals launder hundreds of millions of dollars. Vladamir Kats, 44, was sentenced by U.S. Dis...
The Weather Channel plans to introduce a mobile phone app for its recently launched online local news service Local Now in a bid to expand its viewership, Chief Executive Dave Shull told Reuters in an interview. The independent TV network, which brings weather coverage from blizzards to tornadoes to...
The Alphabet Inc. campus, also known as Googleplex, is shown in this aerial photo in Mountain View, California, United States on April 6, 2016. Reuters/Noah Berger/File photo Venture capitalists are raising money at the fastest rate in a decade, raking in about $13 billion in the first quarter of 20...
Facebook's logo is seen through a magnifier in front of a displayed PC motherboard, in this illustration taken April 11, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook Inc, the social networking powerhouse, is conducting a full investigation into allegations of political bias, Chairman and Chief Exe...
A Polish non-profit organization is hoping to help the blind and visually impaired with plans to make and give away what it says will be the world's first free smart glasses. Parsee has developed a prototype of the battery-powered glasses which have a 3D printed frame, internet protocol camera and e...
Consumers will be able to access their online subscriptions for services like Netflix (NFLX.O), Sky (SKYB.L) and Canal+ (IPO-CANALFRA.PA) when they travel across the European Union under proposals tentatively agreed by member states on Friday. The law was presented by the EU executive, the European ...
A man walks inside the the Paul-Loebe-Haus parliamentary building of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2016. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany's lower house of parliament last year...
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files The purported personal details of numerous Chinese business moguls and politically-connected elite have been posted to an anonymous Twitter account, an embarrassing leak for ...
The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo Investigators probing the cyber heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank connected it on Friday to the hack at Sony Corp's film studio in 2014, while global financia...
Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo Three hacking groups "are still lurking" in the network of Bangladesh's central bank, putting the bank at risk of further attacks about three months after it lost $81 million...
A logo is pictured outside Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California December 19, 2014. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Malicious software used in February's $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank is linked to other cyber attacks, including the high-profile 2014 attack on Sony's Hollywood studio, accordi...
Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that Amazon.com, the world's biggest online retailer, has "a huge antitrust problem." In an inter...
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Thursday it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, a move that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said would help the company better understand the critical Chinese market. The investment comes as Apple is trying to reinvigorate sales in China, i...
The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo SWIFT, the global financial messaging network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned on Thursday of a second case of a cyber attack similar to the one t...
The logo of technology company Nvidia is seen at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California February 11, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith Nvidia Corp forecast better-than-expected revenue for the current quarter as it sees robust demand for its chips that power complex computer graphics. Shares of th...
Facebook's logo is seen through a magnifier in front of a displayed PC motherboard, in this illustration taken April 11, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook on Thursday emphasized that it does not permit its employees to block news stories from its "Trending Topics" list based on politica...
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Rand Paul speaks at the New Hampshire GOP's FITN Presidential town hall in Nashua, New Hampshire January 23, 2016. Reuters/Mary Schwalm Kentucky Senator Rand Paul plans to become the first Republican co-sponsor of legislation to block a pending...
Pieces of an iPhone are seen in a repair store in New York, February 17, 2016. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz/File photo For tech companies, there was a confounding juxtaposition in the news this week. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission announced a joint effort ...
An Apple store is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Shares of Apple dropped below $90 on Thursday for the first time since 2014 as Wall Street worried about slow demand ahead of the anticipated launch of a new iPhone later this year. A mainstay of...
The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo SWIFT's payment network was not hacked in the $81 million heist on the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year, SWIFT's chief executive said on Thursday, adding it was unlikely...
A woman walks past a banner at the shareholder meeting of Rocket Internet, a German venture capital group in Berlin, Germany, June 23, 2015. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Kinnevik will review its stake in German ecommerce investor Rocket Internet in two or three years as the companies Rocket owns have dev...
Hon Hai's Vice President Tai Jeng-wu attends a news conference to announce the company's agreement to acquire Sharp Corp in Taipei, Taiwan March 30, 2016. Reuters/Tyrone Siu Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp (6753.T) said on Thursday it has named a Foxconn vice chairman as a board member candida...
U.S. Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2016. Reuters/Ruben Sprich Cyber attack techniques used by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State could also be used by other countries, U.S. Defense Secretary...
A car-sized sled powered by electromagnets rocketed to more than 100 miles (160 kph) an hour through the Nevada desert on Wednesday in what the Los Angeles company developing the technology said was the first successful test of a futurist transit system called hyperloop. Hyperloop One is among sever...
The new Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam The U.S. House of Representatives' information technology team has blocked the congressional chamber from accessing software applications hosted on a Google cloud service in an ...
The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo SWIFT has told its bank customers that they are responsible for securing computers used to send messages over its global network, which was used to steal some $81 million from a ...
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files A group of senior U.S. and China cyber officials on Wednesday held its first meeting since the two countries struck an anti-hacking agreement in September to try to ease year...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at a 3D printer during a visit to the 9th national IT summit in Berlin, Germany, November 19, 2015. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke A group of hackers which cybersecurity experts say targets critics of the Russian government has laid siege to German Chancellor Angela ...
People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with a Google logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/File Photo The U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials are asking questions again about whether Alphabet Inc's Google ...
