A Bahamian man accused of hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal unreleased movies and television scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos that he then tried to sell pleaded guilty on Monday. Alonzo Knowles, who was arrested in December after allegedly trying to sell an ...
Computer software pioneer John McAfee speaks with reporters outside his hotel in Miami Beach, Florida December 13, 2012. Reuters/Joe Skipper Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee has been tapped as CEO of MGT Capital Investments Inc, and said it would buy certain assets of McAfee's anti-spy softwa...
A woman is silhouetted against the Baidu logo at a new product launch from Baidu, in Shanghai, China, November 26, 2015. Reuters/Aly Song/File Photo Baidu Inc must rein in paid-for advertisements within search results after a student died following experimental cancer treatment he found via China's ...
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 German ecommerce investor Rocket Internet's (RKET.DE) investors need to buy into its five to 10 year plans rather than focus on short t...
Chinese people won't be able to quench their thirst with a refreshing "face book" beverage, after the U.S. social networking company won a rare trademark victory against a local firm in China. By contrast, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) last month lost its battle to prevent a domestic company from using the "iP...
A United Parcel Service (UPS) truck on delivery is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California October 29, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake International delivery company UPS is backing a start-up using drones in Rwanda to transport life-saving blood supplies and vaccines, underlining the wide potential fo...
Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyber heist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged. The technicians introduced ...
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, is seen amongst the crowd during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Facebook Inc's No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, paid a Mother's Day tribute to single moms, acknowledging she never full...
A photo illustration shows a USB device being plugged into a laptop computer in Berlin July 31, 2014. Reuters/Thomas Peter As the continuing parade of mass data breaches increases the opportunities for miscreants to use grabbed credentials for all manner of fraud, it is also driving defenders to see...
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 On-demand ride companies Uber and Lyft suffered an embarrassing defeat in a Saturday election in Au...
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 - RTX1KG30 Ride-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] aims to launch its UberX service, which uses licensed professional drivers, in the German ca...
A number of young technology security companies are losing access to the largest collection of industry analysis of computer viruses, a setback industry experts say will increase exposure to hackers. The policy change at the information-sharing pioneer VirusTotal takes aim mainly at a new generation...
Mat Matthews, operations and safety manager with Elevated Robotic Services, and Ron Windmueller, owner of Droneology, pose with drones as smoke rises from wildfires near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 6, 2016. Reuters/Chris Wattie Fire-ravaged Alberta will use drones to investigate the cause of...
Baidu's company logo is seen at its headquarters in Beijing December 17, 2014. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon The death of a student following experimental cancer treatment he found through China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc, has exposed the faultlines in the company's business model, which relies hea...
In the years before hackers stole $81 million from a Bangladesh central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, senior Fed security officials examined the risk of such an attack - but judged the prospect unlikely, bank sources told Reuters. The Fed managers worried that lax security pr...
An illustration photo shows Whatsapp App logos on a mobile phone in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Nacho Doce/File Photo Judge Marcel Montalvão joined some of Brazil's top politicians as one of the country's most-hated public figures when he ordered a 72-hour shutdown of WhatsA...
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 On-demand ride companies have spent millions of dollars ahead of a Saturday vote to overturn a meas...
Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne poses for photographers next to the new Cinquecento Fiat car during a photocall in Turin July 5, 2007. Reuters/Alessandro Garofalo/File Photo Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said Friday FCA and Alphabet Inc's Google have yet to determin...
Lorenzo Tan, president and chief executive officer of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), gestures while answering questions during the money laundering hearing at Senate in Manila March 29, 2016. Reuters/Romeo Ranoco The Philippines' Rizal Commercial Banking Corp said it has accepted the resi...
Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it had nominated Satoshi Tsunakawa, a former head of its medical equipment division, to be its next chief executive officer - a move that it hopes will draw a line under a damaging accounting scandal. Sixty-year-old Tsunakawa, who was not embroiled in the scandal, ...
IT services provider Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (CTSH.O) reported a 10 percent rise in revenue, helped by higher demand for its digital services. The company's net income rose to $441.2 million, or 72 cents per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, from $382.9 million or 62 cents per ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the Apple TV during an event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephan Lam Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook plans to visit Beijing later this month to meet high-level government officials, at a time when it is facing som...
An illustration picture shows a network cable next to a pack of smartphones in Berlin, June 7, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) is launching an investigation into the mobile devices of eight smartphone vendors over an alleged patent violation, the trade ...
A picture illustration shows a Facebook logo reflected in a person's eye, in Zenica, March 13, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Facebook Inc (FB.O) lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it "unlawfully" collected and stored users' bio...
Bitcoin (virtual currency) coins are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier New York state's financial regulator is close to approving licenses for bitcoin companies Coinbase Inc and Ripple Labs Inc, which would allow them...
The Apple logo is pictured at its flagship retail store in San Francisco, California January 27, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith A cellphone expert overrode the lock function on an Apple iPhone to help Los Angeles police in a homicide investigation around the time U.S. authorities were battling the c...
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, speaks during an interview with CNBC following the IPO for Square Inc., on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange November 19, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Square Inc (SQ.N), the mobile payments company run by Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) Chief Executive Jack ...
A Re-fuel rechargeable battery for GoPro Hero cameras is displayed during the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 4, 2015. Reuters/Steve Marcus GoPro Inc reported a lower-than-expected fall in quarterly revenue as demand for its popular wearable action cam...
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 Alphabet Inc's Google and climate control systems maker Honeywell International Inc have reached an agreement to resolve patents disputes rel...
An Apple store is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Apple Inc (AAPL) will report its second quarter results April 26. Picture taken April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Apple Inc is taking another step into the corporate computing world by partnering with SAP to devel...
