An illustration picture shows a Google logo with two one Euro coins, taken in Munich January 15, 2013. Reuters/Michael Dalder (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said it would ban advertisements for payday loans as these "deceptive or harmful financial produ...
The lights are on at Fenway Park for the MLB American League baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox in Boston, Massachusetts April 17, 2012. Reuters/Brian Snyder Boston is the U.S. city best placed to capitalize on the shift to a digital economy, with the tech-centered San Fr...
Europe’s biggest software company, SAP (SAPG.DE), is the subject of a U.S. security alert over a vulnerability the firm disabled six years ago that can still give outside attackers remote control over older SAP systems if the software is not properly patched. SAP fixed the issue, but left the ...
The neon Google sign in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power/Files Russia's state competition watchdog has postponed a decision on a possible fine on Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google until May 31, RIA news age...
The Uber logo is seen on a vehicle near Union Square in San Francisco, California, U.S. May 7, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo Uber Technologies Inc, the company behind the popular ride-hailing service, was dealt its latest setback in Europe on Wednesday, saying it would suspend its UberPO...
The Peugeot logo is seen on the new Peugeot Expert van during a show at Peugeot Citroen PSA Sevelnord carmaker factory in Hordain, northern France, March 30, 2016. Reuters/Pascal Rossignol PSA Peugeot Citroen and Dongfeng Motor said they signed an agreement on Wednesday to create a common platform t...
A woman walks down the stairs of the Standard Chartered headquarters in Hong Kong, October 13, 2010. Reuters/Bobby Yip/File Photo Standard Chartered (STAN.L) has hired former Symantec Corp (SYMC.O) executive Cheri McGuire to be its new chief information security officer, the bank said on Wednesday, ...
Brogan BamBrogan, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Hyperloop Technologies, speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 3, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Hyperloop One, a Los Angeles company working to develop the futuristic transportation technolog...
A smartphone with an Android operating system and the Baidu Browser application is seen in this picture illustration taken February 22, 2016. Reuters/Damir Sagolj Chinese military authorities have disciplined a dozen people associated with a hospital linked to the death of a student who underwent an...
Dai Xiang has slept his way to the top. The 40-year-old Beijinger got his start as an engineer, pulling 72-hour shifts at a machinery company while catching naps on the floor. After a switch to the tech industry and around 15 years of catching naps on desks and other flat surfaces, Dai co-founded hi...
The logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone over a reserved lane for taxis in a street is seen in this photo illustration taken in Madrid on December 10, 2014. Reuters/Sergio Perez The mayor of Sao Paulo, South America's largest city, laid out regulations on Tuesday to allow the use of ...
An Electronic Arts (EA) video game logo is seen at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles, California, United States, June 17, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Video-game publisher Electronic Arts Inc, known for titles such as "FIFA" and "Battlefield", reported quarterly revenue and pr...
A man talks on his mobile phone in front of a Wal-Mart store in Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 16, 2016. Reuters/Nacho Doce Wal-Mart Stores Inc filed a lawsuit against Visa Inc, saying the payments network operator was resisting the use of personal identification numbers (PINs) by customers for purchas...
An Uber car is seen parked with the driver's lunch left on the dashboard in Venice, California, United States on July 15, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Uber [UBER.UL] will join with the International Association of Machinists to launch an independent guild to represent drivers of the ride-...
The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company's IPO launch, May 18, 2012. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo A U.S. Senate committee launched an inquiry on Tuesday into how social media website Facebook selects its news stories after a report that c...
A university in Thailand has caught a group of students using smart watches and cameras concealed in glasses to cheat during entrance exams, forcing the cancellation of the tests for others. Rangsit University rector Arthit Ourairat shared pictures of the gadgets on his Facebook page and said the sc...
The Oracle logo is seen on its campus in Redwood City, California June 15, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith - RTX1GN5V An attorney for Oracle Corp told jurors on Tuesday that Alphabet Inc's Google deliberately took Oracle's intellectual property without permission, kicking off a $9 billion retrial. Or...
An Amazon logo is seen on a worker's jacket at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Wroclaw, Poland December 3, 2015, during the busy holiday shopping season. Picture taken December 3, 2015. Reuters/Kacper Pempel - RTX1X80M Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) launched a service on Tuesday that allows users to post vi...
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier Japan Display Inc (6740.T) warned on Tuesday of a bigger loss in the just-ended business year compared to the previous year as sluggish demand for iPhones dragged down sales of its display panels. Japan Display estimated a net loss of 31.8 billion yen ($291.96 million) fo...
A logo of Alibaba Group is pictured at its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, October 14, 2015. Reuters/Stringer/File photo Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's online shopping platform Taobao is tightening controls on the sales of luxury goods, requiring sellers to show proof of authenticit...
The Nokia headquarters is seen in Espoo, Finland April 6, 2016. Reuters/Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/File Photo Nokia's (NOKIA.HE) net sales of telecoms equipment fell more than expected in the first quarter and the Finnish company warned earnings in its mainstay business would decline this year du...
Baidu Inc's CEO has called on employees to put values before profit in response to a scandal around the death of a student who underwent an experimental cancer treatment he found on the company's search website. Before his death, student Wei Zexi, 21, criticized the military-run hospital that provid...
An Uber car is seen parked with the driver's lunch left on the dashboard in Venice, Los Angeles, California, United States July 15, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Drivers who worked for ride-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] in California and Massachusetts over the past seven years would have been entitl...
People walk past an IBM logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 25, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea The online marketplace Groupon Inc has sued IBM Corp, accusing it of infringing a patent related to technology that helps businesses solicit customers based on the customers' locat...
A Facebook logo is pictured on an Apple's Ipad in Bordeaux, southwestern France, March 10, 2016. Reuters/Regis Duvignau/Illustration Facebook (FB.O) workers have often omitted conservative political stories from the website’s "trending" list, the technology news site Gizmodo said on Monday in ...
The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo SWIFT on Monday rejected allegations by officials in Bangladesh that technicians with the global messaging system made the nation's central bank more vulnerable to hacking before...
Music streaming service Spotify has seen a faster pace of growth since the launch in June last year of rival Apple Music (AAPL.O), a top executive said on Monday. Spotify, which was created in Stockholm 10 years ago, now boasts of having close to 100 million users in more than 59 markets, despite in...
A woman uses her mobile phone before a concert in Los Angeles, California March 17, 2016. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission on Monday jointly sent letters to mobile carriers including AT&T Inc, Sprint Corp, Verizon Communications Inc an...
U.S. authorities on Monday said they have shut down a long-running international "psychic" mail fraud operation that bilked more than a million Americans, including many who were elderly or infirm, out of more than $180 million. A federal judge has approved a consent decree that bans Montreal's Info...
Campaign signs concerning a municipal vote over fingerprint requirements for ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft are seen along a roadway in Austin, Texas, May 6, 2016. Reuters/Jon Herskovitz/File Photo On-demand ride companies Uber and Lyft suspended their services in Austin, Texas, on Mon...
