(Reuters) - The British government has banned its departments responsible for national security from using software made by Russia's Kaspersky Labs, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing a letter sent to government officials. on.ft.com/2BuuWPU FILE PHOTO - A view shows the software produced...

(Reuters) - Over 30 technology companies including Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Facebook Inc. (FB.O) on Friday urged a U.S. patent court to disregard drugmaker Allergan Plc’s (AGN.N) contention that its transfer of some of its patents to a Native American tribe shields t...

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior managers in Uber Technologies Inc’s security unit resigned on Friday, an Uber spokesperson said, days after the company’s new chief executive officer disclosed a massive data breach and criticized past practices. FILE PHOTO: The Uber logo...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics’ $8 billion purchase of automotive and audio electronics company Harman has given the technology conglomerate confidence to chase more big deals, its strategy chief said on Friday. Samsung Electronics Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn poses for a pictur...

MILAN (Reuters) - The head of Italy’s top retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI) joined a growing chorus of Bitcoin critics, calling the wild gyrations in the price of the cryptocurrency a speculative bubble and saying global regulatory scrutiny was essential. FILE PHOTO - Carlo Messina, CEO of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of Uber Technologies Inc’s most senior remaining security executives resigned on Friday and another took medical leave after the company’s new chief executive officer criticized past practices, a source familiar with the situation said. FILE PHOTO: The Uber ...

HELSINKI/TORONTO (Reuters) - An arbitration court ordered smartphone pioneer BlackBerry Ltd to pay $137 million to Nokia to settle a payment dispute and the Canadian company said it would pursue a separate patent infringement case against the Finnish firm. FILE PHOTO - A banner for BlackBerry Ltd ha...

(Reuters) - Canadian software maker BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) (BB.N) said on Friday that it would pay Nokia Corp $137 million, according to a ruling by the International Court of Arbitration. A banner for BlackBerry Ltd hangs to celebrate the company's transfer trading to the New York Stock Exchange (N...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - “Clash of Clans” maker Supercell will focus on a few mobile games and kill off those which it does not expect to become a top-10 global hit, its chief executive said on Friday. Finnish game company Supercell Co-Founder and CEO Ilkka Paananen meets the press in the co...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German government agency has removed Tesla from the list of electric cars eligible for subsidies, sparking a row with the U.S. company over whether its Model S is too expensive to qualify for the scheme. FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Model X is seen alongside a Model S at a Tesla electric...

(Reuters) - The music group of China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd and Sweden’s Spotify AB are in talks to swap stakes up to 10 percent in each other’s businesses ahead of their expected public listings next year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Earphones are seen on a tablet ...

HORNSDALE, Australia (Reuters) - Tesla Inc TLSA.O switched on the world’s biggest lithium ion battery on Friday in time to feed Australia’s shaky power grid for the first day of summer, meeting a promise by Elon Musk to build it in 100 days or give it free. South Australian Premier, Jay ...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms for the lead in artificial intelligence. FILE PHOTO - Amazon Web Services logo i...

(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Thursday it filed three new patent infringement complaints against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), saying there were 16 more of its patents that Apple was using in its iPhones. A sign on the Qualcomm campus is seen, as chip maker Broadcom Ltd announced an unsolicited bi...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to be your new executive assistant at work. The Amazon Echo, a voice-controlled virtual assistant, is seen at it's product launch for Britain and Germany in London, Britain, September 14, 2016. REUTER/Peter Hobson The company on Thursday said that Alexa, its...

SAN FRANCISCO/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co laid out its vision for self-driving vehicles on Thursday, telling investors it planned a commercial launch of fleets of fully autonomous robo-taxis in multiple dense urban environments in 2019, in a challenge to rivals such as Alphabet Inc’s...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Popular messaging app WhatsApp said on Thursday that users around the world had been unable to access its service for a brief period, but that access for its 1 billion daily users had since resumed. A man poses with a smartphone in front of displayed Whatsapp logo in this i...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) is trying to figure out how to cater to investors who want to trade bitcoin even though the digital currency remains too volatile for the Wall Street bank to trade itself, according to comments by a representative and its chief executive officer on...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared a device embedded in an Apple Inc watch band that monitors a user’s heart rate, detects when something is amiss and prompts the user to take an electrocardiogram. Apple watches are seen at a new Apple store in Chicago, Illin...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Apple is designing its own power-management chips for use in iPhones as early as 2018, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday, triggering a more than 20 percent slide in shares of supplier Dialog Semiconductor. FILE PHOTO: The new iPhone X is pictured at the Apple Store...