The head of messaging app service operator Line Corp said on Thursday that it could still seek an initial public offering (IPO), although it put plans for a listing on hold in August. "A listing is still an option," Chief Executive Officer Takeshi Idezawa told reporters on Thursday. "Nothing has bee...
A employee handles the new R240 electric engine by French carmaker Renault for their Zoe model automobile at their factory in Cleon, Western France, July 20, 2015. Reuters/Philippe Wojazer Renault is recalling 10,649 Zoe electric cars to remove the potential risk of rupture to brake fluid hoses, a s...
Taxis are seen parked near the National Monument as their drivers take part in a protest against what they say is unfair competition from ride-hailing services, in Jakarta, Indonesia March 14, 2016. Reuters/Darren Whiteside Ride-hailing apps Grab and Uber must partner with a transport business and r...
Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which is leading an investor revolt against Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) management team, is seeking to remove the entire board of the struggling Internet company, the Wall Street Journal reported. The activist investor, which owns about 0.75 percent of Yahoo, plans t...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the world's biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. Samsung's executives will sign a pledge to move away from a top-down c...
An Apple iphone 6 with Apple Pay is shown in this photo illustration in Encinitas , California June 3, 2015. Reuters/Mike Blake Apple Inc's mobile payments system, Apple Pay, is expanding into mobile websites later this year, technology website Re/code reported, citing sources. The service will be a...
A businessman from China pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to hack into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors including Boeing Co , the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Su Bin, 50, faces a maximum five-year sentence for allegedly conspiring with two other peo...
A pedestrian is reflected in a sign at Panasonic Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 3, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp will scrap its 10 trillion yen ($88.93 billion) group sales target for fiscal year ending March 2019 due to a cooling global business environment, t...
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski The Obama administration is expected to blame Iranian hackers as soon as Thursday for a coordinated campaign of cyber attacks in 2012 and 2013 on a suburban Ne...
Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar Amazon.com Inc, under pressure from an activist shareholder to disclose its policies on gender pay equality, said on Wednesday its female employees earned as much as their male ...
Marc Newlin and Balint Seeber are checking how far apart they can be while still being able to hack into each other's computers. It turns out its pretty far - 180 meters - the length of a city block in San Francisco. The pair work for Bastille, a startup cyber security company that has uncover...
Employees walk in the main office building of Samsung Electronics in Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Vietnam's prime minister has approved a $300-million research and development project in Hanoi by Samsung Electronics Vietnam, a local unit of a South Korean giant that is th...
A NYPD officer carries a barrier outside the Apple Store in New York February 23, 2016. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, Californ...
A 3D printed Android logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Alphabet Inc's Google unit said on Wednesday its one-touch payment app for Android devices, Android Pay, will be launching in the UK in the next few months....
Italian utility Enel said on Wednesday it planned to invest around 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to help develop a national ultrafast broadband network. The state-controlled utility said in a statement it plans to gradually roll out a fiber-to-the-home network would be open to other investors. Th...
Alibaba-backed YTO Express plans to go public via a 17.5 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) merger with a listed clothing maker, becoming the latest courier seeking capital market funds to stay competitive during China's e-commerce boom. China's mostly privately held express delivery firms are under pressu...
The U.S. government will give Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone maker ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) a three-month reprieve on tough export restrictions it imposed earlier this month, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. The department on March 8 imposed some of the toughest-everU.S. export restric...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket loaded with supplies and science experiments blasted off from Florida on Tuesday, boosting an Orbital ATK cargo capsule toward the International Space Station. The 194-foot (59-meter) rocket soared off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A 3D printed Twitter logo is seen in front of displayed stock graph in this illustration picture made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 3, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Twitter Inc is testing a new feature called 'Stickers' to add images to photos before tweeting them, tech news site Re/code re...
The neon Google sign in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power Google Inc, long an also-ran in cloud services, has scored an important victory in its effort to win corporate clients: Home Depot is moving some o...
