A woman walks past an advertisement board of Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii U game console at an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 2, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japanese videogame maker Nintendo Co Ltd will stop production of the Wii U video game console as early as this year after stagnant sa...
A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. Reuters/Rick Wilking/Files An executive with Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) unit that sells office supplies to businesses gave testimony on Tuesday that appeared to bolster a U.S. regulator's wariness over a pote...
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 Yahoo Inc will suspend offering paid Daily Fantasy Sports contests in New York from Wednesday, a Yahoo spokesman said on Tuesday. A probe b...
Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman Bangladesh's central bank has hired a lawyer in the United States for a potential lawsuit against the New York Federal Reserve after unknown hackers stole $81 million from its account w...
A just-delivered Amazon box is seen on a counter in Golden, Colorado August 27, 2014. Reuters/Rick Wilking Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has sued a former executive hired by Target Corp (TGT.N) as its chief supply chain and logistics officer to prevent him from revealing trade secrets. Amazon said in the ...
An Apple logo is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in downtown Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2016. Reuters/Yves Herman Apple said on Tuesday it had talked about buying its supplier Imagination Technologies but did not plan to make an offer for the British graphics chip designer at the moment. Sha...
ZTE's mobile Axon is displayed at their stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea The U.S. government will give Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone maker ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) a brief three-month reprieve on tough export restrictions it imposed ...
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, the high-flying transportation firm, is releasing a technical map of its computer and communications systems and inviting hackers to find weaknesses in exchange for cash...
The new iPhone SE is seen on display during an event at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould for mobile phones the question is now being asked whether the evolution of the smartphone has finally come to a...
A man talks on his mobile phone at an empty tea shop in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, August 31, 2015. Reuters/Osman Orsal As Turkey prepares for the launch of high-speed 4G cellphone services next month a row is brewing over rivals wanting cheaper access to partly state-owned Turk Te...
British software group Micro Focus International has agreed to buy U.S. firm Serena Software [SILAKS.UL] for an enterprise value of $540 million and will raise $216 million in a placing to part finance the cash deal, it said on Tuesday. Founded in 1980, privately-held Serena Software is a provider o...
Britain's telecoms regulator said BT, the owner of the biggest fixed-line network, must install business lines more quickly and significantly reduce the wholesale prices it charges rivals for the lines. Ofcom's demands come less than a month after it said it would impose higher service standards on ...
Most Americans trust Apple Inc to protect their personal information from hackers, according to a national Reuters/Ipsos poll, but not any better than rivals Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S....
Taiwan's Foxconn is working towards reducing its planned investment into loss-making Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp by around 100 billion yen ($893 million) from an initial plan of 489 billion yen, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precisi...
Shares in Thailand's top three mobile telecoms operators surged 5-10 percent on Tuesday after broadband Internet firm Jasmine International missed a deadline for an initial payment toward a $2.1 billion fee for a 4G mobile license. Market leader Advanced Info Service Pcl saw its stock shoot up 5 per...
3D printed Apple logo are seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken February 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration U.S. prosecutors said Monday that a "third party" had presented a possible method for opening an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters...
Former Intel Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Andrew Grove died on Monday at age 79, the technology company said in a statement. (Reporting by Sandra Maler in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)
Apple Vice President Greg Joswiak introduces the iPhone SE during an event at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPhone SE has first-rate features and a relatively low price tag, but its prospects in key markets like China and...
Employees of Amazon India are seen behind a glass bearing the company's logo inside its office in Bengaluru, India, August 14, 2015. Reuters/Abhishek N. Chinnappa Workers at an Amazon.com warehouse in Germany are starting a new round of strikes in an attempt to pressure the U.S. online retailer to i...
A man tries to repair an iPhone in a repair store in New York, February 17, 2016. Reuters/Eduardo Munoz A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has begun circulating long-awaited draft legislation that would give federal judges clear authority to order technology companies like Apple to help law enforce...
A man types on a computer keyboard in this February 28, 2013 file photo illustration. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files The U.S. government was hit by more than 77,000 "cyber incidents" like data thefts or other security breaches in fiscal year 2015, a 10 percent increase over the previous year, according...
Jumio, an online identification verification company whose clients include United Airlines Inc [UALCO.UL] and Airbnb, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its U.S. business and initiated the sale of assets, according to court documents. The company, based in Palo Alto, California, said...
A FanDuel logo is displayed on a board inside of the DFS Players Conference in New York November 13, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson - RTS6UCJ Top daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings agreed to stop taking money in New York on Monday, amid a months long fight with the state's attorney g...
3D-printed Samsung and Apple logos are seen in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stepped into the high-profile patent fight between the world's two fiercest smartphone rivals, Apple and Samsung, a...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Electronic Arts Inc's bid to revive its free speech defense in a lawsuit filed by former NFL players who accused the videogame maker of using their likenesses in the popular Madden NFL series without permission or proper compensation. The high court left in ...
The new Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam/Files Alphabet Inc's Google is poised to expand Internet access in Cuba, U.S. President Barack Obama told ABC News in an interview during his historic visit to the island nation...
Thousands of Indonesian taxi drivers will take to the streets of the capital on Tuesday for a protest rally to demand the government prohibits ride-hailing apps like Grab and Uber, as a price war intensifies. The proliferation of cheap taxis using ride-sharing apps Go-Jek, Grab and Uber has made the...
Tourists ride in a vintage car in Havana, March 19, 2016. Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini Priceline Group has agreed with Cuba to make Cuban hotel rooms available to U.S. customers via subsidiary Booking.com, becoming the first U.S. online travel agency to strike a deal with the island state, a Booking....
More than a year after Uber announced a research pact with Carnegie Mellon University - and then hired away four of the institution's faculty and 36 researchers and technicians - the ride-hailing company and university have not collaborated on a single project, according to CMU faculty and administr...
Signage for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. covers the front facade of the New York Stock Exchange November 11, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Monday its total transaction volume had surpassed 3 trillion yuan ($463 billion) in the fiscal year t...
