(Reuters) - Shares of Equifax Inc tumbled 13 percent on Friday after the provider of consumer credit scores revealed that personal details of as many as 143 million Americans were likely accessed in one of the largest data breaches in the United States. The cyber attack comes nearly two years after ...

(Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing to see if Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] had used software to illegally interfere with its competitors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The investigation is focusing on an Uber program, internally known as “Hell,” th...

LONDON (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] will cease using diesel cars in London by the end of 2019 and the vast majority of rides will be in electric or hybrid vehicles by then, the taxi app said on Friday. At the moment the company says around half of all the journey miles completed in the British capital...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - One Uber vehicle and two other taxis were torched in South Africa’s main business district on Thursday night in a feud over fares, but no one was injured, Uber and police said on Friday. The vehicles were set alight in the wealthy Sandton district near the Gautrain sta...

FLORENCE (Reuters) - The initial findings of Germany’s investigation of U.S. social network company Facebook over possible market abuse will be announced by the end of the year, the country’s cartel office said on Friday. The competition watchdog’s investigation, which kicked off i...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance Co Ltd, China’s first internet-only insurer, secured Hong Kong stock exchange approval for its planned initial public offering which could raise more than $1 billion, sources with direct knowledge of the deal said on Friday. ...

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. legislation may be needed to require social media companies to disclose more about how their platforms are used for political advertising, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Thursday, after new signs of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. Faceb...

Equifax, one of the “big-three” U.S. credit bureaus, said today that a data breach at the company may have affected 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers. In a press release today, Equifax [NYS...

Equifax, one of the “big-three” U.S. credit bureaus, said today that a data breach at the company may have affected 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers. In a press release today, Equifax [NYS...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Search engine Google said on Thursday it had seen no evidence on its advertising platforms of the kind of suspected Russian propaganda campaign that Facebook Inc (FB.O) says appeared on its network before and after last year’s U.S. presidential election. “We&rsq...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Thursday it would build a $5 billion second headquarters in North America, kicking off a competition between cities and states to offer tax cuts and incentives that could bring 50,000 new jobs. The largest e-commerce company said it intended to create &ldq...

TORONTO (Reuters) - The mayor of Toronto said on Thursday that Canada’s largest city was working to make sure it has an attractive bid for Amazon.com Inc’s second headquarters. Earlier on Thursday, Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, announced a $5 billion expansion pla...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) new iPhone had hit production glitches early in its manufacturing process and could lead to supply shortfalls and shipping delays following its launch next week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The company’s shares were down 0.5 percent at $...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank’s president criticized on Thursday a proposal by the Estonian government to launch a state-managed digital currency, reaffirming instead that the euro was the only valid money in the euro area. A rise in popularity in so called cryptocurrencies, ...

(Reuters) - U.S. college students can buy Spotify Premium music streaming and Hulu TV streaming for a combined, deeply discounted $4.99 per month, in a new student subscription bundle the companies announced on Thursday to lure younger consumers. The entertainment bundle, $13 cheaper than the regula...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Thursday it was searching for a location to build its second headquarters in North America that would cost more than $5 billion and house up to 50,000 staff. The e-commerce company, which is headquartered in Seattle, said it was seeking proposals from loca...

(Reuters) - Action camera maker GoPro Inc (GPRO.O) said on Thursday it expects to be profitable on an adjusted basis in the third quarter, ahead of the holiday season launch of its newest cameras, sending its shares up 17 percent. The company’s body-mounted point-of-view cameras have a huge fo...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A self-driving car will soon be one ride option available from Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, as the ride-services company ramps up its efforts to become a serious player in autonomous vehicle technology. Lyft said on Thursday that self-driving cars will soon be dispat...

(Reuters) - Wearable camera maker GoPro Inc (GPRO.O) said on Thursday it expects to be profitable on an adjusted basis in the third quarter, sending its shares up 17 percent. The company said it expects current-quarter revenue and gross margins to be at the high end of its forecast of $290 million t...

TALLINN (Reuters) - European Union defense ministers tested their ability to respond to a potential attack by computer hackers in their first cyber war game on Thursday, based on a simulated attack on one of the bloc’s military missions abroad. In the simulation, hackers sabotaged the EU&rsquo...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese electric-car venture Future Mobility Corp, co-founded by former BMW and Nissan Motor executives, has named its brand “Byton” that it plans to launch in the United States and Europe soon after starting sales at home in 2019. Future Mobility, which recently rai...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Thursday it plans to open another headquarters in North America and spend more than $5 billion for its construction and operation. The e-commerce company, currently based in Seattle, said it was yet to zero in on a location, but expects to expand the new h...

(Reuters) - Wearable camera maker GoPro Inc (GPRO.O) said on Thursday it expects to be profitable on an adjusted basis in the third quarter. The company said it expects current-quarter revenue to be at the high end of its forecast of $290 million-$310 million, driven by the strong demand for Hero 6 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Startup company Hotel Tonight, betting that superior mobile technology will give it an edge, is expanding its hotel-booking offerings and going toe-to-toe with the big online travel companies. Hotel Tonight early next month will allow users to reserve a hotel up to 100 days...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine prosecutors have recommended the filing of charges against a former bank manager for her part in laundering of tens of millions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank last year but cleared two casino agents and a remittance firm. A Department of Justice ...

LONDON (Reuters) - All new Jaguar Land Rover cars will be available in an electric or hybrid version from 2020, Britain’s biggest carmaker said on Thursday, as it speeds up plans to electrify its model range. Last year, the company, owned by India’s Tata Motors (TAMO.NS), said it would o...

TALLINN (Reuters) - European Union defense ministers will hold a cyber war game for the first time on Thursday to test their ability to respond to a potential attack by computer hackers on one of the bloc’s military missions abroad. In a fictional scenario, the EU’s naval mission in the ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Best Inc, a Chinese logistics company backed by Alibaba Group, has launched an up to $932 million initial public offering, seeking funds to expand its logistics and supply chain network, develop new technology and open more of its convenience stores. The Hangzhou-based company ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) is in talks to gain voting rights of just under 16 percent in Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) memory chip unit on the assumption that it will be listed in the future, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday. Kyodo did not cite sources or say who the U.S. f...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May. Facebook, the dominant social media network, said 3,000 ads and 47...