Australia set out a far-reaching cybersecurity strategy on Thursday, invoking the leaks of United States whistleblower Edward Snowden, terrorism and even the threat of war to push for a coordinated global approach to protection of online data. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who faces an election i...

Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma attends the opening ceremony of the second annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen town of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Aly Song The new boss of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, Jack Ma, has promised not to interfere in edit...

The logo of U.S. technology company Apple is seen in Zurich, Switzerland April 5, 2016. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will report its second-quarter results on April 26, a day later than scheduled, according to the company's website. Apple was expected to report its results on Monday, Apr...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler in Washington May 12, 2015. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it is studying mobile carriers' use of decades-old communications technology with known security bugs after "60 Minutes" report...

People walk past Qualcomm's stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in this February 24, 2016, file photo. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) reported a 19.5 percent fall in quarterly revenue, hurt by lower demand for its chips for mobile devices amid stiff competition...

A billboard displays the logo of Snapchat above Times Square in New York March 12, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson A new filter on messaging app Snapchat that allows users to look like the late reggae singer Bob Marley sparked a backlash on social media on Wednesday, with many on Twitter calling it raci...

Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console units are shown for sale at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego January 18, 2012. Reuters/Mike Blake Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would stop production of its popular Xbox 360 video game console, which helped the company gain a firm foothold in the market. ...

Ck Hutchison Holdings (0001.HK) will not offer EU regulators further concessions to secure a takeover of Telefonica's (TEF.MC) O2 and is ready to challenge a rejection of its bid in court, sources familiar with the matter said. The Hong-Kong-based group still hopes to persuade the European Commissio...

Smartphone with Yahoo logo is seen in front of a displayed Daily Mail logo in this illustration taken April 11, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration The parent of Britain's Daily Mail said on Wednesday that it had not submitted a bid to acquire Yahoo Inc's core Internet business, but it was in talk...

A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski BRUSSELS - The United States does not want to change the substance of a data transfer pact agreed in February with the European Commission, a senior official s...

Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world. Journalists with access to the vast trove of data used the firm's open-source database to make sense of 11.5 million documents, includin...

The neon Google sign in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power BRUSSELS - Google found itself under fire again on Wednesday from EU antitrust regulators who say it abused the dominant position of its Android mo...

A sign for a payday lending shop is seen in London March 6, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett Online payday lenders often collect loan payments by automatically debiting bank accounts, which has put borrowers who cannot pay on the hook for almost $200 in fees and other penalties besides the costs of th...

Baidu's company logo is seen at its headquarters in Beijing December 17, 2014. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon Baidu Inc has completed raising around 1 billion yuan ($154.69 million) for a new video business subsidiary, it said in a posting on its microblog on Wednesday. The subsidiary will comprise three Ba...

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in this February 24, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files Verizon Communications Inc was set on Tuesday to advance to the second stage of bidding for Yahoo Inc's core assets, as the U.S. internet company went thr...

A worker arranges an Intel logo at the CeBIT trade fair, the world's biggest computer and software fair, in Hannover in this March 13, 2016, file photo. Reuters/Nigel Treblin/Files Intel Corp said it would cut 12,000 jobs globally, or 11 percent of its workforce, as the company moves away from its t...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer delivers her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in this January 7, 2014, file photo. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/Files Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) posted first-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates slightly, but the 11.3 percent d...

Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power Canada's Competition Bureau said on Tuesday that it was dropping an investigation into Google after saying in 2013 that it suspected the company was abusing its dominant position in on...

The logo of U.S. technology company Apple is seen in Zurich, Switzerland April 5, 2016. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann The growing use of strong default encryption on mobile devices and communications by criminal suspects is handicapping investigators' ability to pursue them, law enforcement officials told C...

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager looks on as she addresses a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, January 11, 2016. Reuters/Francois Lenoir Europe's antitrust chief is expected to hit Google on Wednesday with anti-competitive charges concerning its Android mobile phone operating...

A Yahoo logo is pictured in front of a building in Rolle, 30 km (19 miles) east of Geneva, in this file picture taken December 12, 2012. Reuters/Denis Balibouse Activist investor Jeffrey Smith, whose Starboard Value hedge fund wants to replace the entire board at Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), said this approa...

A customer uses an iPhone and a Macbook computer at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store at Grand Central Station in New York April 20, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Apple Inc on Tuesday updated its 12-inch MacBook line of laptops with faster processors, Retina display, Force Touch trackpad and made i...

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 European Commission is preparing to challenge a French law on taxi services and chauffeured cars, two ...

Bill Gates said on Monday that no one was an “absolutist” on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the co-founder of Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said he supports his company’s lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking the freedom to tell customers when federal agencies have ...

Blackberry CEO John Chen speaks to reporters following their annual general meeting for shareholders in Waterloo, June 23, 2015. Reuters/Mark Blinch Tech companies should comply with lawful requests to access protected data, BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen said on Monday, in thinly veiled criti...

The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake Streaming video service Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) forecast its number of U.S. and international subscribers would grow at a slower pace than Wall Street expected this quarter, sending i...

People walk past an IBM logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 25, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) reported a 4.6 percent fall in quarterly revenue, hurt by a strong dollar and muted IT spending amid global economic uncertainty. Reven...

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in this February 24, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files YP Holdings LLC, the digital advertising business of what was formerly called Yellowpages.com, is planning to submit a first-round bid on Monday to merge ...

Bill Campbell, chairman of the board and former chief executive of Intuit Inc., smiles as he moderates a fireside chat with Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 event at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse in San Francisco,... Reuters/Stephen Lam Sil...

An Amazon logo is seen on a worker's jacket at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Wroclaw, Poland, in this file photograph dated December 3, 2015. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/files Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said it would offer its video streaming service as a monthly subscription as it looks to drive membership...