For Kim Wong, the Chinese casino owner in the Philippines entangled in one of the world's largest bank heists, there are two golden rules for dealing with wealthy punters: always demand to see their money, but never ask where it came from. That seems to be what happened when he took millions of doll...
The neon Google sign in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power NYSE Arca has suspended trading in eight symbols for the balance of the trading day due to a technical issue, including Amazon.com and both classes...
A Blackberry sign is seen in front of their offices on the day of their annual general meeting for shareholders in Waterloo, Canada in this June 23, 2015 file photo. Reuters/Mark Blinch/Files BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) reported a larger-than-expected slide in fourth-quarter revenue on Friday amid weakne...
A woman wearing a face mask stands on a bridge in front of the financial district of Pudong amid heavy smog in Shanghai, China, December 15, 2015. Reuters/Aly Song Foreign companies with dominant market positions could be increasingly forced to license technology to competitors or face sanctions und...
Tesla Motors gave a sneak preview Thursday of its Model 3 sedan, saying more than 130,000 people had ordered the car, even though it is more than a year away from production. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of the Model 3 in Hawthorne, California outside Los Angeles to hundreds ...
EHarmony on Friday launched a recruitment portal, but the online matchmaker's long-promised service will begin to generate revenue only late this year, a company executive told Reuters. The new website, called Elevated Careers, will be offered free for job seekers for now, while companies looking to...
Swedish-based Invisio, which will provide high-tech headsets to French security forces at the Euro 2016 soccer championship this summer, expects military orders in emerging markets to boost revenue further this year. Invisio's headsets are already sold to U.S. and British military forces. The in-ear...
Finland's Okmetic (OKM1V.HE), said on Friday that it had received a takeover offer from China's National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) for the maker of silicon wafers used in semiconductors and analog circuits. It said NSIG had offered 9.20 euros ($10.49) and a dividend of 0.65 euros per Okmetic sha...
Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamt of building his own one day. Unlike most of the others, however, Ma has realized his childhood dream at the ag...
A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in this December 16, 2015, file photo. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Files Egypt blocked Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Free Basics Internet service at the end of last year after the U.S. ...
Journalists follow the presentation of Huawei's new smartphone, the Mate S, ahead of the IFA Electronics show in Berlin, Germany, September 2, 2015. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on Friday posted its strongest revenue growth since 2008 as China's adoption of f...
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Cyber security experts have found vulnerabilities in a U.S. State Department system that could have allowed hackers to alter visa applications or steal data fr...
Reddit mascots are displayed at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith Social networking forum reddit on Thursday removed a section from its site used to tacitly inform users it had never received a certain type of U.S. government surveillanc...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick speaks to students during an interaction at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Mumbai, India, in this January 19, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui Travis Kalanick, chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc, failed on Thursday to win the dismiss...
The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake Video provider Netflix did not violate any U.S. regulations when it "throttled" the picture quality for AT&T and Verizon wireless customers and the FCC has no plans to investig...
LOS ANGELES - Japan's Square Enix unveiled details surrounding its much anticipated console game "Final Fantasy XV" to thousands of fans -- some wearing fancy dress -- at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The "Final Fantasy" series is seen as a cornerstone of video games and has won...
Internet LAN cables are pictured in this photo illustration taken in Sydney June 23, 2011. Reuters/Tim Wimborne The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday advanced a proposal to ensure the privacy of broadband Internet users by barring providers from collecting user data without consent....
A Microsoft logo is seen on an office building in New York City, July 28, 2015. Reuters/Mike Segar Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it was working on bringing ad blocker support through third-party extensions into the next version of its Edge web browser. Tech website ZDNet reported earlier in the da...
An Amazon package is seen after being delivered in London, Britain February 29, 2016. Photograph dated February 29, 2016. Reuters/Toby Melville Amazon is in talks with a consortium of German carmakers about taking a stake in high-definition digital mapping company HERE, two auto industry sources fam...
People look at smartphones of Chinese brand Lenovo at a shop in Kenya's capital Nairobi September 2, 2015. Reuters/Noor Khamis Global smartphone sales are expected to grow in single digits in percentage terms for the first time ever and PC shipments are forecast to decline in 2016, according to rese...
An Uber sign points to drop off and pick up location on a city street in Portland, Oregon March 19, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] will use Progressive Insurance to provide coverage for drivers in Texas beginning on Friday, in a pilot that could lead the ride-hailing market...
A Microsoft logo is seen at a pop-up site for the new Windows 10 operating system at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Microsoft’s Azure cloud business is adding business customer and developer subscribers at a rapid pace, a senior company execut...
A man takes a photo of the U.S. Capitol, on the eve of a potential federal government shutdown, in Washington September 30, 2013. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve a $2 billion a year budget cap as part of an expansion of a subsidy for low-incom...
A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and coins are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris July 11, 2014. Reuters/Benoit Tessier Global regulators have moved closer to regulating the fledgling fintech sector, which includes blockchain technology that...
When Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, a small Sri Lankan businesswoman, got a deposit of $20 million in her account last month, she said the funds were expected but had no idea they were stolen from Bangladesh's central bank in one of the largest cyber heists in history. Unknown hackers breached Bangla...
The logo of the Disney store on the Champs Elysee is seen in Paris, France, March 3, 2016. Reuters/Jacky Naegelen Playbuzz, a U.S.-Israeli platform for distributing online content, has raised $15 million in funding led by Saban Ventures, with participation from Walt Disney Co (DIS.N). Existing inves...
The logo of Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is seen on top of the company's headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan March 29, 2016. Reuters/Tyrone Siu With its acquisition of Japan's Sharp Corp (6753.T), Foxconn aims to gain access to promising technology for high-end OLED s...
The logo of the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seen at the agency's headquarters in the Canary Wharf business district of London April 1, 2013. Reuters/Chris Helgren A flurry of companies are queuing for authorisation to open peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms to take advantage of a new ...
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show. "It can't find the lane markings!" Kerssemakers griped to Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was at the wheel. "You n...
Five ride-hailing platforms in China, including Didi Kuaidi and Uber, have been called in by authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen over the lax process of screening drivers, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Some drivers were found to have committed various traffic violations and used...
