A Bitcoin logo is displayed at the Bitcoin Center New York City in New York's financial district July 28, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo - RTSKT40 The U.S. government said on Monday it plans to auction over 2,700 bitcoin that were forfeited during several cases, including the prosecution ...

A person walks outside a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City January 11, 2013. Reuters/Edgard Garrido/File Photo Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Monday it would buy online retailer Jet.com for about $3 billion, the largest-ever deal for an e-commerce startup, as it races to build a Web business to better comp...

A Facebook logo is displayed on the side of a tour bus in New York's financial district July 28, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo - RTX2JH2W Facebook rejected on Monday claims made by Germany's state authorities that it was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations, sayin...

A man holds the newly released iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow September 26, 2014. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said on Monday it had opened a case into price-fixing allegations concerning Apple iPhones. "The Anti-Monopoly Service sees signs of price fixing...

A padlock is displayed at the Alert Logic booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. August 3, 2016. Reuters/David Becker A previously unknown group called "Strider" has been conducting cyber-espionage attacks against selected targets in Russia, China, Swede...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Japan's Fair Trade Commission has raided the office of Amazon Japan on suspicion of pressuring retailers to offer products on more favorable conditions than on rival ...

A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex, which lost $72 million to hackers last week, told customers on Sun...

Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) is in talks with Panasonic Corp (6752.T) and overseas companies including Chinese firms over the possible sale of its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said. Two people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday that the Japanese automaker ...

A prototype of the Tesla Model 3 is on display in front of the factory during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016. Reuters/James Glover II Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) said the cost of building and operating ...

Chris Urmson, Director of the Self Driving Cars Project at Google, speaks to the media during a preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo Chris Urmson, an executive who was instrumental in building Google's ...

Alibaba Group Holding Inc is not making an investment in Netflix Inc, Alibaba spokesman Bob Christie told Reuters on Friday. Christie was responding to market rumors about a possible deal between the Chinese e-commerce company and the U.S. video service. (Reporting by Peter Henderson; Editing by Ric...

U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. August 4, 2016. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst The Obama administration is preparing to elevate the stature of the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, signaling more emphasis on developing cyber weapons to deter att...

A security guard stands guard outside a branch of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in Paranaque city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 2, 2016. Reuters/Erik De Castro A Bangladesh central bank team visiting Manila to recover $81 million stolen from its account in New York said it was clos...

A Yahoo logo is pictured in front of a building in Rolle, 30 km (19 miles) east of Geneva, December 12, 2012. Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File photo As European and American markets open on Friday, oil traders face a new era with Yahoo Messenger, the main tool used by traders to communicate since the la...

A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Hong Kong-based crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex, from which hackers stole about US$72 million worth...

A software program dubbed "Mayhem" was poised to win the final round of a three-year contest to teach computers to launch and defend against cyber attacks, earning a $2 million prize for the team that wrote the winning code. The event, known as the Cyber Grand Challenge, concluded Thursday evening i...

A new palm-sized robot is vying to become a favorite toy, equipped with a cheeky personality and hopes for a possible future entertainment franchise. Cozmo, a palm-sized microbot armed with sensors, motors and visual capabilities and controlled using a smartphone, is the latest product from San Fran...

An Autonomous trucking start-up Otto vehicle is shown during an announcing event in Concord, California, U.S. on August 4, 2016. Reuters/Alexandria Sage Self-driving trucking start-up Otto is poised to put its software in the hands of long-haul truckers by the end of this year for testing, its co-fo...

A man uses his iPhone before a preview event at the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016. Reuters/Andrew Kelly Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens...

Attendees walk by the FireEye booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. August 3, 2016. Reuters/David Becker Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc said it planned to layoff 300 to 400 of its 3,400 workers as it announced quarterly sales on Thursday that missed its...

The Zynga logo is pictured at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 23, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo "FarmVille" creator Zynga Inc (ZNGA.O) reported higher-than-expected bookings in the second quarter, driven by higher demand for its slot games and social games s...

A promotion for the computer game ''Grand Theft Auto Five'' is show in a Game Stop gaming story in Encinitas, California September 17, 2013. Reuters/Mike Blake Videogame publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc reported a 13 percent rise in revenue, helped by strong sales of its "Grand Theft Auto...

Nearly 2,000 people in Germany have applied for the government's electric car discount scheme, introduced on July 1, and a third of them are buyers of BMW (BMWG.DE) models, a government agency said on Thursday. The scheme, similar to those established in other European countries to spur electric car...

People visit the booth of Alibaba Group during an exhibition in Beijing, China, September 22, 2015. Reuters/Stringer A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed part of a lawsuit filed last year by Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and other luxury brands accusing Alibaba Group Holding Ltd of promoting the sale of c...

A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Facebook Inc's News Feed will show fewer "clickbait" headlines over the next few weeks, the company announ...

A woman rides on the back of a motorbike, part of the Go-Jek ride-hailing service, on a busy street in central Jakarta, Indonesia December 18, 2015. Indonesia's president publicly rebuked one of his cabinet ministers on Friday for a clampdown on ride-hailing services such as... Reuters/Garry Lotulun...

The Apple logo hangs from the front of the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016. Reuters/Andrew Kelly Apple Inc (AAPL.O) deserved the hundreds of millions of dollars in damages Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) paid for infringing patented designs of the iPhon...

People stand near a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 advertisement at a mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 22, 2016. Reuters/Beawiharta South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd expects sales for its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone to exceed those of the previous version launched last year, the head of...

A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex said late on Wednesday that after a security breac...

LAUNCESTON, Australia,  The future of communications may be 5G, where mobile networks push bandwidth-heavy video to phones and pull data from self-driving cars, but some firms see an alternative: farm irrigation equipment, donation boxes and oysters, connected by a technology called LoRa. ...