EU governments agree new roaming rules for Netflix, Amazon

The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake/File Photo - RTX2B4O8 European subscribers to online video streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Video and Sky will be able to access the services when visiting other countries w...

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Amazon to deliver fresh food in Berlin soon: Manager Magazin

A parcel travels along a conveyer belt at Amazon's new distribution center in Brieselang, near Berlin November 28, 2013. Reuters/Tobias Schwarz Amazon plans to start deliveries of fresh food in Berlin in coming months, a magazine reported on Thursday, as the ecommerce giant extends its foray into gr...

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South Africa's Standard Bank taking action after ATM heist in Japan

Customers queue to draw money from an ATM outside a branch of South Africa's Standard Bank in Cape Town, March 15, 2016. Reuters/Mike Hutchings South Africa's Standard Bank is taking action after criminals in Japan stole millions of dollars from automatic teller machines using fake credit cards from...

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Snapchat raises $1.81 billion in new funding round

An image of the Snapchat logo created with Post-it notes is seen in the windows of Havas Worldwide at 200 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 18, 2016, where advertising agencies and other companies have started what is being called a ''Post-it note war''... Reuters/Mike Segar Mess...

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Exclusive: New York financial regulator gearing up to probe online lenders - source

United States one dollar bills are seen on a light table at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington November 14, 2014. Reuters/Gary Cameron/File Photo New York state's financial regulator, which recently launched a probe into LendingClub Corp, is preparing to look into the activities at o...

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Brazilian companies rank worst among major economies on cyber security: report

A hand is silhouetted in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Companies based in Brazil scored “significantly poorer” in aggregate on a variety of cyber security indicators than those based in other major world eco...

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China's Lenovo swings to full-year loss on M&A costs

A Lenovo logo is seen at the computer in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2016. Reuters/Gleb Garanich China's Lenovo Group Ltd on Thursday reported its first loss in six years, with earnings pulled down by acquisition and restructuring costs as well as weak sales of smartphones and personal computers (PCs). ...

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EU states approve plans to coordinate key mobile spectrum

The European flag flies outside of the La Canada shopping centre in Marbella, southern Spain January 23, 2013. Reuters/Jon Nazca EU member states approved plans on Thursday to coordinate the roll-out of a key spectrum across the 28-nation bloc to provide faster mobile broadband speeds and improve ac...

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Automakers, tech companies decide to make deals, not war

A driver displays Uber and Lyft ride sharing signs in his car windscreen in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Files A flurry of deals between big automakers and ride hailing and transportation startups is rewriting the playbook in the contest to control the future ...

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Exclusive: In Ecuador cyber heist, thieves moved $9 million to 23 Hong Kong firms

A branch of the Banco del Austro is seen in Quito, Ecuador, May 17, 2016. Reuters/Guillermo Granja Cyber thieves who stole $12 million from an Ecuadorian bank in 2015 routed the funds through 23 companies registered in Hong Kong, some of them with no clear business activity, according to previously ...

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Exclusive: Bangladesh probes 2013 hack for links to central bank heist

Bangladesh police are reviewing a nearly forgotten 2013 cyber heist at the nation’s largest commercial bank for connections to February's $81 million heist at the country's central bank, a senior law enforcement official said on Wednesday. The unsolved theft of $250,000 at Sonali Bank involved...

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HP Inc's revenue falls about 11 percent on weak PC, printer sales

An attendee at the Microsoft Ignite technology conference walks past the Hewlett-Packard (HP) logo in Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 2015. Reuters/Jim Young HP Inc (HPQ.N), which houses the former Hewlett-Packard Co's legacy hardware business, reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue as it struggle...

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India says Apple must sell locally-sourced goods to set up stores: source

A pedestrian walks past an Apple iPhone 6 advertisement at an electronics store in Mumbai, India, July 24, 2015. Reuters/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo India has said Apple Inc must meet a rule obliging foreign retailers to sell at least 30 percent locally-sourced goods if it wishes to open stores in t...

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Google self-driving car unit will open engineering center in Michigan

A Google self-driving car is seen inside a lobby at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam Alphabet Inc's Google self-driving car project said Wednesday it will launch this year a new technology development center in suburban Detroit. The Mountain...

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Irish privacy watchdog refers Facebook's U.S. data transfers to EU court

A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of the logo of the European Union in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 15, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Data transfers to the United States by companies such as Facebook and Google face a renewed legal threat after the Iri...

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Exclusive: Apple explores charging stations for electric vehicles

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is investigating how to charge electric cars, talking to charging station companies and hiring engineers with expertise in the area, according to people familiar with the matter and a review of LinkedIn profiles. For more than a year, Silicon Valley has been buzzing about Apple's ...

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SEC investigating Alibaba's accounting practices

Chairman and chief executive of Alibaba Group Jack Ma reacts during a session of ''Future-Proofing the Internet Economy'' at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in China's port city Dalian, September 9, 2015. Reuters/Jason Lee Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) said it was being investigated by the U.S. ...

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EU seeks to make buying online abroad easier, postage cheaper

An eBay sign is seen at an office building in San Jose, California May 28, 2014. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to ban Internet retailers from treating customers differently depending on where they live to encourage consumers to shop across the bloc ...

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EU to probe deeper relations between web platforms and businesses

A woman hovers a mouse over the Google and European Union logos in this April 15, 2015 photo illustration. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo The European Commission will examine the terms of use of web platforms such as Google, Amazon and Apple Inc's App Store for businesses to decide wheth...

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Austria's FACC, hit by cyber fraud, fires CEO

An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code around the shadow of a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. Reuters/Kacper Pempel The head of Austrian aerospace parts maker FACC has been fired after the company was hit by a cyber fraud that cost it 42 million...

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