(Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Thursday said that it fired an employee accused of bragging on matchmaking app Tinder about his access to private user information.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. traffic safety regulator on Wednesday contradicted Tesla Inc's claim that the agency had found that its Autopilot technology significantly reduced crashes, saying that regulators "did not assess" the system's effectiveness in a 2017 report.

LONDON/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA shares dropped 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, a startup led by former U.S. National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander, has raised $78 million in additional funding, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned announcement.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tesla Inc stood by its production targets for its Model 3 on Wednesday, assuring investors that its key new vehicle was on track, and sought to downplay increased wariness over its finances, saying it expected to achieve net profit in both its third and fourth quarters.

(Reuters) - The poorest U.S. consumers would lose most from the proposed tie-up of wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp, according to consumer advocates who warned the combined company would hike fees for pre-paid and other low-cost mobile phone plans.

LONDON/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Music streaming leader Spotify Technology on Wednesday posted quarterly revenue just below Wall Street's average estimate in its first report as a publicly traded company, sending its shares down 9 percent in after-hours trading.

(Reuters) - Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc's forecast for current-quarter revenue missed Wall Street estimates, hurt by a drop in sales of fitness trackers.

BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy 60 percent of Flipkart, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, potentially complicating Walmart Inc's bid for majority ownership of the Indian online retailer.

LONDON (Reuters) - Spotify Technology on Wednesday posted quarterly revenue in line with its recent outlook and sharply lower operating losses in the music streaming leader's first financial report as a publicly traded company.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering issuing an executive order that would restrict some Chinese companies' ability to sell telecommunications equipment in the United States, two industry officials said, an action likely aimed at Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] and ZTE ...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc is betting on services such as app downloads and music subscriptions to help drive growth as the cell phone market matures, but the company faces tough competitors and potentially low profit margins in some of its target areas.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering executive action to restrict some Chinese companies' ability to sell telecommunications equipment in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering executive action to restrict some Chinese companies’ ability to sell telecommunications equipment in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Aerospace suppliers are starting to explore blockchain technology to keep tabs on their supply chain, potentially tracking parts such as those identified as the cause of a Southwest Airlines accident last month.

LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of British bank TSB, Paul Pester, will not get a bonus linked to the bank's botched computer system migration, TSB's Chairman Richard Meddings told lawmakers on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense has stopped selling mobile phones and modems made by the Chinese technology companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp in stores on its military bases, citing potential security risks.

(Reuters) - Shares of Snap Inc sank as much as 22 percent to the lowest since its 2017 flotation on Wednesday, after first quarter numbers showed it losing confidence among users and advertisers due to a widely-panned redesign of Snapchat.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Chief Executive of British lender TSB, Paul Pester, will not receive a bonus that he was due and which was linked to the bank's botched computer system migration, TSB's chairman Richard Meddings told lawmakers on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc rose 3 percent on Wednesday after the company's quarterly report and current-quarter iPhone sales forecast calmed investor nerves about a potential slowdown in sales of its flagship product.

(Reuters) - Shares of Snap Inc fell 17 percent on Wednesday, a day after the Snapchat owner missed first-quarter user targets and said revenue growth would see a substantial slowdown in the current quarter as backlash over the app's redesign kept advertisers at bay.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has designed a new test simulating cyber attacks on banks, stock exchanges and other firms that are critical for the functioning of the financial system, it said on Wednesday.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe's top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU users' data to the United States.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese drone company has broken the Guinness World Record for most drones flown simultaneously in a 13-minute flight that involved 1,374 drones spread over a kilometer.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court refused a request by Facebook to delay a referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court on Wednesday, ordering its immediate referral.

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy a 60 percent stake in Indian online retailer Flipkart, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

(Reuters) - Islamic banks and insurers are focusing on profitability and new financial products as the industry shifts away from years of containing the adverse impact of low oil prices, an industry body said on Wednesday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Safaricom, Kenya's biggest telecoms company, is piloting a social messaging app that will link to its mobile money platform in an attempt to move the company into the application business, the company said on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade-old smartphone invention had life in it yet.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Cyberwarfare and populism are some of the top risks that could threaten global stability and financial markets in the years ahead, investors and policymakers warned at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference this week, as they characterized them as black swan ...