An attendee at the Microsoft Ignite technology conference walks past the Hewlett-Packard (HP) logo in Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 2015. Reuters/Jim Young Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) is nearing a deal to acquire HP Inc's (HPQ.N) controlling stake worth about $940 million in Indian IT outsourcing service...
An Apple Watch in the new rose gold color is displayed during an Apple media event in San Francisco, California, September 9, 2015. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach Worldwide shipments of wearable devices are expected to rise 38.2 percent to 110 million units by the end of 2016, market research firm Internat...
A man uses a mobile phone in front of a logo of Tencent at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2015 in Beijing, China, April 28, 2015. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) is not only China's largest social network and online entertainment firm, it is now big in mobile paym...
Swiss watchmakers, who once dismissed smartwatches as short-lived gadgets, are now racing to grab a share of a fast-growing market via technology partnerships and stepping up investments. Shipments of smartwatches overtook traditional watches in the final quarter of 2015, according to Futuresource C...
A man walks in front of Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen, China March 15, 2016, before the company announces its annual results on March 17, 2016. Reuters/Bobby Yip China's Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) has no plans to spin-off its popular mobile messaging app WeChat, Chief Executive Pony Ma told r...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) announced a $5.9 billion asset sale and a big investment in its chip business on Thursday, but saw its shares slide on a report that U.S. authorities ...
Imagination Technologies, a supplier of graphics technology to Apple, said it planned further cost cuts on top of those announced in February, in an acceleration of its restructuring. The company, which licenses its graphics and video processing technology to semiconductor companies, has in recent y...
An Apple iPhone is pictured next to the logo of Apple in Bordeaux, southwestern France, February 26, 2016. Reuters/Regis Duvignau Apple Inc recently started using Google's cloud service even as it simultaneously builds its own data centers to reduce its reliance on third-party service providers, tec...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen at the company's news conference venue in Tokyo in this May 17, 2012 file photo. Reuters/Yuriko Nakao/Files Toshiba Corp said it plans to invest 360 billion yen ($3.2 billion) to build a new semiconductor facility in Japan, showing it wants to grow its chip business ...
People walk past a LG Electronics logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 25, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea Consumer electronics screen maker LG Display Co Ltd said on Thursday it will build a new production plant that will manufacture organic light-emitting diode panels for it...
Nike, the world's biggest sportswear firm, is launching a new version of its Nike+ running app that offers users preferential access to the hottest new sneakers, raising its game as competition heats up in the fitness tracking business. Nike made the announcement at a glitzy event in New York at whi...
A Pennsylvania man has agreed to plead guilty to a felony computer hacking charge after authorities said he illegally accessed private phone and email accounts of celebrities such as Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence to leak information including nude pictures. The U.S. attorney for the Centra...
An Apple logo is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in downtown Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2016. Reuters/Yves Herman A German court has ruled against Apple Inc in a case over video streaming patents, handing Kudelski's OpenTV unit a victory in its ongoing intellectual property licensing campaig...
Overstock.com Inc (OSTK.O) said on Wednesday it would offer shareholders new common shares to be traded on the company's t0.com platform. t0.com is Overstock's financial technology subsidiary and its trading platform is powered by the blockchain, bitcoin's underlying technology. At the same time, Ov...
An Apple iPhone is pictured next to the logo of Apple in Bordeaux, southwestern France, February 26, 2016. Reuters/Regis Duvignau BRUSSELS/DUBLIN - European Union antitrust regulators have asked Ireland to provide further details on the country's tax deal with Apple before deciding whether this cons...
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files Expired domain names are becoming the latest route for cyber criminals to find their way into the computers of unsuspecting users. Cyber criminals launched a malicious advert...
Israelis can now use their smartphones to make live video distress calls to emergency responders, a first-of-its-kind service that, if successful, could set a new standard for countries around the world. Video chats, texting and location detection may be humdrum features for today's smartphone user,...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp (4901.T), which lost out to Canon Inc (7751.T) in the race to be picked as preferred bidder for conglomerate Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) medical unit, qu...
India's parliament is set to pass legislation that gives federal agencies access to the world's biggest biometric database in the interests of national security, raising fears the privacy of a billion people could be compromised. The move comes as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cracks down ...
A vintage wheelcap of a BMW is picturesd before a news conference marking the company's 100th birthday festivities in Munich, southern Germany March 7, 2016. Reuters/Michael Dalder German carmaker BMW unveiled a new strategy on Wednesday to focus on achieving further advances in electric vehicles, a...
A screen displays the Instagram logo during a presentation by co-founder Kevin Systrom as he announces the launch of a new direct image messaging service named Instagram Direct in New York December 12, 2013. Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Files Facebook Inc's picture-sharing app Instagram said it is reshuffl...
British mobile payments company Paysafe Group Plc (PAYS.L) posted a 68 percent increase in full-year 2015 revenue as more customers used its payment processing services. Revenue rose to $613.4 million for the year ended Dec. 31 from $365.0 million a year earlier. (Reporting by Rahul B in Bengaluru; ...
Foxconn has completed its due diligence on Japan's Sharp Corp through the end of 2015, but is seeking guidance from the loss-making electronics maker on its latest quarterly performance, a person familiar with the matter said. Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is finalizing a...
Guests and employees chat under a ZTE company logo in front of the venue of the company's 15th anniversary celebration in Beijing April 18, 2013. Reuters/Barry Huang Shares of China’s ZTE Corp are expected to resume trading on Wednesday morning in Hong Kong and the company will appeal new U.S....
A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken February 26, 2016. Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward... Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustr...
Sony's Project Morpheus ''London Heist'' video game virtual reality headset and move controllers are seen at the Sony PlayStation booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles, California, United States, June 16, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Sony Corp on Tuesday announced its Pla...
Journalists take a test drive in a prototype of Google's own self-driving vehicle during a media preview of Google's current autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage Members of a U.S. Senate panel and firms working on self-driving vehicles on Tues...
U.S. officials will travel to Brussels this week to drum up support for a transatlantic data transfer pact agreed last month that will facilitate billions of dollars worth of online business but which must overcome European regulators' concerns over privacy protection. Agreed on Feb. 2 after two yea...
ICAP, which matches buyers and sellers of bonds, swaps and currencies, said it has become the first to distribute data on trades to customers using the same blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency bitcoin. Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, creates a shared database in w...
A smartphone app for Lyft drivers is seen during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam The Teamsters Union and drivers working for ride-hailing service Lyft in California plan to file legal objections to a class-action lawsuit settlement that would co...
