An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign September 15, 2014. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach/Illustration/File Photo Daimler (DAIGn.DE) will deepen its European footprint in the ride-hailing business when its M...

When senior Yahoo executives gathered at a San Jose hotel for a management retreat in the spring of 2006, there was no outward sign of a company in crisis. The internet pioneer, not yet a teenager, had just finished the prior year with $1.9 billion in profits on $5.3 billion in revenue. The tough da...

Yahoo Inc shareholders may be left betting on how quickly, if at all, the former web pioneer can cash in on its multi-billion dollar stakes in two Asian peers after Monday's deal to sell its core internet assets to Verizon Communications Inc. Most of Yahoo's $36.4 billion market value is derived fro...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has entered into a partnership with the British government to speed up the process for allowing small drones to makes deliveries. The...

Donald J. Trump has repeatedly bashed Sen. Hillary Clinton for handling classified documents on her private email server, suggesting that anyone who is so lax with email security isn’t fit to become president. But a closer look at the Web sites for each candidate shows that in contrast to...

Donald J. Trump has repeatedly bashed Sen. Hillary Clinton for handling classified documents on her private email server, suggesting that anyone who is so lax with email security isn’t fit to become president. But a closer look at the Web sites for each candidate shows that in contrast to...

A prominent Illinois Republican has resigned from the state legislature, citing multiple incidents of fake Facebook and Twitter accounts set up in his name in recent weeks. "After some cyber security issues arose, I began to re-evaluate my continued public service," Representative Ron Sandack, House...

Software startup Zenefits must pay the state of Tennessee $62,500 for violating insurance requirements, state officials said on Monday, marking the first settlement with regulators as the scandal-hit company seeks to redeem itself after revelations it had flouted the law. "Under the company's past l...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish mobile telecoms gear maker Ericsson parted company with its chief executive Hans Vestberg on Monday, a move led by major shareholders after a series of disappointing results.

The Uber logo is seen on a vehicle near Union Square in San Francisco, California, U.S. May 7, 2015. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information obtained in a background check of a plaintiff...

The logo of U.S. mobile network operator Sprint Corp is seen at a Sprint store in San Marcos, California August 3, 2015. Reuters/Mike Blake Sprint Corp (S.N), the No.4 U.S. wireless carrier, reported slightly better-than expected revenue as heavy discounts helped it attract the most postpaid subscri...

SoftBank Corp's (9984.T) human-like robot Pepper will be rolled out in Taiwan later this year with about 100 rented units making their appearance in some banks and Carrefour SA (CARR.PA) shops, executives handling Pepper's sales in the island said on Monday. Taiwan is set to become one of the first ...

Thai student protesters will use social media tools, from Facebook to Japanese messaging app Line, to persuade voters to reject a military-backed draft constitution, some of the activists said on Monday. The students rank among the most vocal critics of Thailand's military government ahead of an Aug...

3D-printed Facebook and Twitter logos are seen in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic The judge overseeing the probe that led to the arrest last week of suspected Islamist militants in Brazil said Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. co-...

Journalists attend the presentation of the Huawei's new smartphone in Paris, May 7, 2014. Reuters/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], one of the world's largest telecoms equipment makers, on Monday posted a 40 percent rise in first-half sales revenue and said it would "m...

Shares of Nintendo Co (7974.T) tumbled as much as 18 percent early on Monday after the company said smash-hit mobile game Pokemon GO would have only a limited impact on its earnings. Nintendo said after the market closed on Friday that it had already factored in anticipated revenues from its Pokemon...

Niantic, game developer of Nintendo's smash hit Pokemon GO, Chief Executive John Hanke speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo, Japan July 15, 2016. Reuters/Toru Hanai The creator of the wildly popular Pokemon Go gaming app received the celebrity treatment on Sunday at the final day of San ...

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 Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) will announce an agreement on Monday to buy Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) for about $5 billion, according to a person familiar with ...

A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed stock graph in this illustration taken April 28, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Apple Inc (AAPL.O) found itself on the receiving end of a small, short-lived anti-U.S. protest this week in China, the tech firm's biggest oversea...

A virtual map of Bryant Park is displayed on the screen as a man plays the augmented reality mobile game ''Pokemon Go'' by Nintendo in New York City, U.S. July 11, 2016. Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/File Photo Two youths unaware of their surroundings when they were playing Pokemon GO on their cell phones...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler speaks at the FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington DC, U.S. February 26, 2015. Reuters/Yuri Gripas/File Photo The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday pressed major U.S. phone companies to take immediate steps to...

Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) is the lead bidder to acquire Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) core business, Bloomberg reported on Friday. An announcement may come in the next few days, Bloomberg said. Verizon and Yahoo were not immediately available to comment. (Reporting by Anya George Tharakan in Bengalur...

A Zalando label lies on an item of clothing in a showroom of the fashion retailer Zalando in Berlin October 14, 2014. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo Swedish investment firm Kinnevik, which backs Europe's biggest pure online fashion firm Zalando, is confident the retailer can withstand competit...

Robots covered in plastic sheets are seen at a plant of Kuka Robotics in Shanghai, China August 13, 2014. Reuters/Pete Sweeney/File Photo China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics (I...

A man talks on his telephone as customers walk through an Apple store in Grand Central Terminal in New York, March 15, 2013. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Apple Inc is planning to open its first Apple Store in Taiwan, a move that comes after the U.S. technology giant raised $1.38 billion in a bond offering ...

Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab said on Friday it is teaming up with Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group to implement a payments platform. This will be Grab's first step to providing a mobile payments solution more widely across Southeast Asia and will extend its reach beyond transport, Gr...

Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel, the only big-name supporter of Donald Trump from the country's technology hub, spoke on Thursday at the Republican National Convention to urge the country to discard petty cultural battles and turn its attention to solving the United States' economic decline. Thi...

The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, July 4, 2016. Picture taken on July 4, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Friday it sued Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] for patent infringements through multiple c...

A ''Pidgey'' Pokemon is seen on the screen of the Pokemon Go mobile app, Nintendo's new scavenger hunt game which utilizes geo-positioning, in a photo illustration taken in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 11, 2016. Reuters/Chris Helgren/File Photo Nintendo Co Ltd's Pokemon GO mobile game has ...

A picture illustration shows a WeChat app icon in Beijing, December 5, 2013. Reuters/Petar Kujundzic Late to the party, WeChat, China's biggest Internet-based mobile messaging platform, is scrambling to get a piece of the action in the booming African market. The move is leading the South Africa-Chi...