SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Taxi drivers protesting the growth of mobile ride hailing applications such as Uber and Cabify blocked the main road to Chile’s principal airport in capital Santiago on Monday, leading to one death and wreaking havoc on travelers’ plans. Santiago-based LATAM Airlines...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Taxi drivers protesting the growth of mobile ride hailing applications such as Uber and Cabify blocked the main road to Chile’s principal airport in capital Santiago on Monday, wreaking havoc on travelers’ plans. Television images showed traffic backed up for miles (...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Estonian start-up Taxify is to go head to head with Uber [UBER.UL] in London’s highly competitive taxi-hailing market, and also has Paris in its sights. Taxify said it will launch services across London on Tuesday after signing up 3,000 private hire taxi drivers, who have...

SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - China on Monday banned and deemed illegal the practice of raising funds through launches of token-based digital currencies. The move was targeted at so-called initial coin offerings (ICO) in a market that has exploded since the start of the year. ICOs have become a bonanz...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe’s top court will rule on Wednesday whether U.S. chipmaker Intel offered illegal rebates to squeeze out rivals in a judgment that could affect EU antitrust regulators’ cases against Qualcomm and Alphabet’s Google. The ruling by the Luxembourg-based Court ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Monday rejected Qualcomm Inc’s (QCOM.O) request to suspend an order by the country’s antitrust agency to take corrective action on the way it licenses patents. In December, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) fined Qualcomm 1.03 trillion won (...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s on Monday banned individuals and organizations from raising funds through initial coin offerings (ICO), saying the practice constituted illegal fundraising. ICOs have become a bonanza for digital currency entrepreneurs, globally and in China, allowing them to raise ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Huawei [HWT.UL] aims to use artificial intelligence-powered features such as instant image recognition to take on rivals Samsung and Apple when it launches its new flagship phone next month, a top executive said on Saturday. Richard Wu, chief executive of Huawei’s consumer b...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has transferred responsibility for Siri, its voice assistant, from content chief Eddy Cue to operating systems chief Craig Federighi, a sign that the company is looking to embed the voice assistant more deeply into its core systems amid rising competition from Alphabet...

(Reuters) - Video streaming device maker Roku Inc filed for an initial public offering on Friday, as the company looks to cash in on the booming demand for such services. The Los Gatos, California-based company said it applied to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol &l...

(Reuters) - More than four million records of users of Time Warner Cable’s MyTWC app were found unsecured on an Amazon server last month, digital security research center Kromtech Security Center said in a blog post on Friday. The files — more than 600 gigabytes in size containing sensit...

(Reuters) - About four million Time Warner Cable records containing details of its customers were found unsecured on an Amazon server last month, tech website Gizmodo reported on Friday. The files, more than 600 gigabytes in size, were discovered on Aug. 24 without a password by researchers of Kromt...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Damien Chazelle, the Oscar-winning director of hit movie “La La Land,” has another musical in the works, this time a multilingual television series set in Paris. Streaming company Netflix (NFLX.O) said on Friday it was teaming up with Chazelle on “The Eddy,&...

MUELHEIM AN DER RUHR, Germany (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) opened a 3D printing center in the industrial heartland of western Germany on Friday as part of its efforts to tap into an expanding market. Thyssenkrupp has invested upwards of a million euros in the center, which operates two 3D prin...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Microsoft is set to update its flagship operating system to enable the latest generation of Windows 10 hardware devices and software to tap augmented and virtual reality, among a range of new features, executives said on Friday. The major software upgrade, its fourth update, will ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Diners at a KFC store in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will have a new way to pay for their meal. Just smile. Customers will be able to use a “Smile to Pay” facial recognition system at the tech-heavy, health-focused concept store, part of a drive by Yum China...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp’s (WDC.O) CEO apologized to his counterpart at Toshiba Corp (6502.T) for strained ties after the U.S. firm sued to keep their chip joint venture from being sold to rival bidders, according to an Aug. 11 letter. The embattled Japanese conglomerate has put ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) apologized to Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) CEO for strained ties after it sued the Japanese company to keep their memory chip joint venture from being sold to rival bidders, according to a letter dated Aug. 11. “I understand that the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE.N) completed the spin-off of much of its software business early on Friday, closing the door on the disastrous 2011 acquisition of British firm Autonomy and narrowing the company’s focus to data center hardware and software. The ente...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must plough billions of pounds into new power plants, grid networks and electric vehicle charging points if it is to avoid local power shortages when a planned ban on new diesel and petrol cars begins. Supporting millions more battery-powered vehicles over the next two dec...