An employee works inside the office of U.S. online cab-hailing company Uber, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, April 24, 2015. Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee Global ride-hailing company, Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL], has temporarily suspended 'surge pricing' in the Indian capital after the state ...
People line up to ride various Jeep vehicles on an off road course at the Washington Auto Show in Washington January 29, 2016. The 2016 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk is at top. Reuters/Gary Cameron Italian carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Monday it rolled out its first locally produced Jeep R...
The neon Google sign in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contend that Google's massive effort to scan millions of bo...
The company logo of Sony Corporation is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, March 3, 2016. Reuters/Thomas Peter/Files Sony Corp (6758.T) said on Monday that its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, which has been shut since earthquakes hit southern Japan last week, makes components mainly for digit...
The neon Google sign in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power Europe's antitrust chief said on Monday that she was looking closely at Google's (GOOGL.O) deals with phone makers and operators, concerned that co...
OneWeb Ltd, a privately owned startup bankrolled by Richard Branson's Virgin Group and other well-known firms, will build a factory to mass produce small satellites near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two sources involved in the project told Reuters. OneWeb plans an initial production run o...
A worker arranges an Intel logo at the CeBIT trade fair, the world's biggest computer and software fair, in Hannover March 13, 2016. Reuters/Nigel Treblin Intel Corp's shift to higher-growth businesses such as server chips and embedded chips for cars could drive a 25 increase in its shares in a year...
The company logo of Sony Corporation is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, March 3, 2016. Reuters/Thomas Peter/Files Electronics giant Sony Corp on Sunday said production at its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, southern Japan, remained suspended as it assessed damage from a powerful earthquake...
Australia Post has successfully field-trialled the use of drones to deliver small packages, clearing the way for test deliveries to customer homes later this year. The state-owned corporation said the drones will be used for the delivery of online shopping parcels and time-sensitive items such as me...
A logo of Sony Corp is seen outside its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, January 27, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Electronics giant Sony Corp said a factory producing image sensors for Apple Inc and other smartphone makers will remain closed while it assesses the damage from two deadly earthquakes which hi...
A 3D printed Android logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Oracle Corp and Alphabet's Google unit failed to settle a long running copyright lawsuit over the Android operating system ahead of a retrial scheduled for ...
A worker checks an iPhone in a repair store in New York, February 17, 2016. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed the company's help to access a locked iPhone in a New York drug case. Apple's brief, filed in federa...
Details are pictured on the backside of an Apple Iphone 6 on a table in a restaurant in Hanau, Germany, April 10, 2016. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will continue its reduced production of iPhones in the quarter ending June in light of sluggish sales, the Nikkei business daily reported...
A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014. Reuters/Francois Lenoir The European Union's digital chief wants search engines such as Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft's Bing to be more transparent about advertising in web search ...
A woman uses virtual reality goggles while sitting in a 'smart fortwo cabrio' car prior to the Daimler annual shareholder meeting in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2016. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke German labor rules may force Daimler, the 130-year-old inventor of the motor car, to create more software and...
Internet browser Vivaldi, which launched last week, must attract five million monthly users to become profitable, its founder and chief executive said in a Reuters interview. The introduction of Vivaldi version 1.0 follows a 15-month development that cost veteran software maker Jon von Tetzchner aro...
With its $1 billion buy of online retailer Lazada, Alibaba (BABA.N) has signaled Southeast Asia as a regional e-commerce battleground - with 600 million people, and no shortage of logistical headaches. The region has the potential to help global retailers offset slowing growth momentum in their core...
Canadian telecom services provider Mitel Networks Corp (MNW.TO) said it will buy U.S. peer Polycom Inc (PLCM.O) for about $1.96 billion in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Polycom stockholders will get $3.12 in cash and 1.31 Mitel shares for each share of Polycom common stock, or $13.68 ...
China's Tencent Holdings Ltd is seeking a loan of up to $2 billion, part of a flurry of fund-raising by the country's Internet giants, two people involved in the financing told Thomson Reuters LPC, a loan-focused news service. The plan adds to a $2.45 billion loan that Tencent, best known for its We...
U.S. President Barack Obama in Chicago, Illinois, United States, April 7, 2016. Reuters/Jim Young The Obama administration on Friday weighed into the debate over allowing consumers to switch pricey cable television boxes for less expensive devices, urging an agency to set an example for other parts ...
The website of Russian state news agency Sputnik has been blocked in Turkey, its Turkish editor-in-chief said on Friday, a move that could further strain relations between Moscow and Ankara after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane last year. "There is no access to sputniknews.com and subdomains fro...
The new iPhone SE is seen on display during an event at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Apple Inc has formed a secret team to explore changes to its App Store, including a new strategy for charging developers to have their apps more prominently dis...
A child stands at a computer display stand for the Windows 10 operating system at the Microsoft store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton The U.S. government has recommended that Windows PC users uninstall Apple Inc's QuickTime video player after secu...
A worker checks an iPhone in a repair store in New York, February 17, 2016. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and the FBI will return to Congress next week to testify before lawmakers about their heated disagreement over law enforcement access to encrypted devices, a congressional committee a...
An Instagram login page is pictured on a laptop screen in Pasadena, California August 14, 2013. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Facebook's picture sharing app Instagram is updating its "Explore" section to add video channels that will appear in a feed according to users' preferences. The feature will have a p...
An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho September 29, 2011. Reuters/Jim Urquhart U.S. federal, state and local government agencies rank in last place in cyber security when compared against 17 major private in...
The logo of U.S. technology company Apple is seen in Zurich, Switzerland April 5, 2016. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will donate sales of select apps in April to the World Wildlife Fund amid its growing focus on environmental issues, the company announced. As part of Apps for Earth, laun...
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in the Western Di...
A group of Chinese internet firms who made a cash offer in February for Norwegian mobile phone browser and advertising firm Opera Software, valuing it at $1.28 billion, have extended the offer as it has not reached the required level of acceptances. The group said on Thursday it had received accepta...
Tech start-ups aimed at businesses rather than consumers are winning more funding from increasingly wary venture capital investors who want to see a return on their cash sooner rather than later. This shift has enabled Soundtrack Your Brand, which plans a U.S. launch this year, to secure $11 million...
