Shopping carts are seen outside a new Wal-Mart Express store in Chicago July 26, 2011. Reuters/John Gress/Files Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it launched a free 30-day trial of ShippingPass, its two-day shipping program to all shoppers in the United States, as the world's largest retailer looks to take o...

Xu Lin, deputy director of China's internet regulator, attends a Shanghai delegation group discussion at the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China, March 6, 2016. Reuters/Stringer The director of China's internet regulator has stepped down and been replaced by one of his deputies, state...

German robotics maker Kuka is in confidential talks about potential new investors but has so far only received a takeover offer from Chinese bidder Midea, Chief Executive Gordon Riske said on Wednesday. Midea, which already owns a 13.5 percent Kuka stake, made a 115 euros a share takeover offer earl...

A woman walks walk past the main entrance of the entertainment-to-telecoms conglomerate Vivendi's headquarters in Paris April 8, 2015. Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo French video games company Gameloft said on Wednesday its board was resigning as it disagreed with the strategic vision of its new...

The logo of French defence and electronics group Thales is seen at the company's headquarters in Neuilly, near Paris, May 20, 2008. Reuters/Charles Platiau/File Photo French electronics group Thales aims to increase its revenues by hundreds of millions of euros in the cybersecurity field through a s...

A man walks past a logo of Airbnb after a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, November 26, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb is in talks for a new round of funding that would value the company at $30 billion, a source close to the company said on Tuesday. Airbnb intends to use t...

A Google search page is seen through a magnifying glass in this photo illustration taken in Berlin, August 11, 2015. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski BRUSSELS - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google may face a third EU antitrust charge as soon as next month, this time focusing on its revenue mainstay AdWords ad place...

U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said on Tuesday that Chinese hacking activity appears to have declined since the Chinese government vowed last September to stop supporting the hacking of U.S. trade secrets. The assertion supports findings released earlier this month from cyber security f...

Workers prepare for the opening of an Apple store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, January 23, 2015. Reuters/Chance Chan Taiwanese chip firm Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc said on Tuesday that its biggest customer, Apple Inc, was being more conservative in placing orders compared with last ye...

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 84th Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana United States, June 26, 2016. Reuters/Chris Bergin Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday laid out a technology and innovation a...

When Demet Mutlu dropped out of Harvard six years ago to found an online fashion retailer in her native Turkey, friends thought she was crazy to leave the world's top business school for a leap into the unknown. But more than her chutzpah, it is the 34-year-old's unshakeable faith in the young Turki...

A man walks past the logo of Line Corp at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan June 2, 2016. Reuters/Toru Hanai/File Photo Japan's Line Corp on Tuesday set a price range for a Tokyo share sale that could value the messaging app operator at up to $6.57 billion, indicating strong demand for a fi...

The Union Jack (bottom) and the European Union flag are seen flying, at the border of Gibraltar with Spain, in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, historically claimed by Spain, June 27, 2016, after Britain voted to leave the European Union in the EU Brexit... Reuters/Jon Nazca Britain's te...

China has tightened rules for mobile app developers including requiring real-name registration and preserving users' activity logs, the country's internet regulator said on Tuesday, as Beijing looks to strengthen oversight of the growing app market. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said ...

A driver displays Uber and Lyft ride sharing signs in his car windscreen in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Files Rival ride services Uber and Lyft have settled high stakes litigation involving two of their top executives, court filings show, in advance of a tria...

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 South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating "some matters" relating to tech giant Apple Inc, the head of the anticompetition body s...

A 3D printed people's models are seen in front of a displayed Airbnb logo in this illustration taken, June 8, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Airbnb sued the city of San Francisco on Monday, arguing that a recent ordinance which requires hosts to register with the city violates the online home...

A smartphone app for Lyft drivers is seen during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Ride-sharing service Lyft has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Qatalyst ...

A ZTE smartphone Grand S is displayed during a news conference in Taipei October 12, 2013. Reuters/Pichi Chuang The U.S. government has extended through Aug. 30 a reprieve to Chinese smartphone maker ZTE Corp on the tough export restrictions it imposed on the company in March, the Commerce Departmen...

Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity's Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York October 2, 2015. Reuters/Rashid Umar Abbasi/File Photo Solar panel maker SolarCity Corp (SCTY.O) said on Monday it has formed a special committee to evaluate Tesla Motors Inc's...

Fake online reviews generated by unscrupulous marketers blanket the Internet these days. Although online review pollution isn’t exactly a hot-button consumer issue, there are plenty of cases in which phony reviews may endanger one’s life or well-being. This is the sto...

Fake online reviews generated by unscrupulous marketers blanket the Internet these days. Although online review pollution isn’t exactly a hot-button consumer issue, there are plenty of cases in which phony reviews may endanger one’s life or well-being. This is the sto...

A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016. Reuters/Eric Gaillard A federal appeals court on Monday said Google and Viacom need not face a nationwide lawsuit claiming they illegally tracked the activity of children under th...

Traders work at the kiosk where Pandora internet radio is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange June 15, 2011. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE - SEARCH 'BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD APRIL 25' FOR ALL IMAGES - RTX2BGVT Ride-hailing giant Uber is integrating ...

A security guard keeps watch as he walks past a logo of Google at an exhibition stage during the 4th China (Shanghai) International Technology Fair 2016 in Shanghai, China, April 21, 2016. Reuters/Aly Song German publishers have appealed a Berlin court's rejection of a case in which they accused Goo...

The unique mechanical properties of bat wings could lead to a new breed of nature-inspired drone. A prototype built by researchers at the University of Southampton shows that membrane wings can have improved aerodynamic properties and fly over longer distances on less power. "The unique aspect of a ...

The Google logo is seen on the top of its China headquarters building, behind a road surveillance camera in Beijing March 15, 2010. Reuters/Jason Lee China moved closer on Monday to adopting a controversial cybersecurity law, after parliament held a second reading of the draft rules, which carry sig...

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. To match Exclusive CYBER-HEIST/BANGLADESH Reuters/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo - RTSFZGE Bangladesh's central bank has ended a contract with U.S. cyber security firm FireEye to investigate February's online thef...

The logo of free messaging app Line is pictured on a smartphone and the company's stuffed toy in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo, Japan September 23, 2014. Reuters/Toru Hanai/Illustration/File Photo Japanese messaging app firm Line Corp has delayed setting a tentative price range for its init...

Xu Jinghong, Chairman of Tsinghua Holdings attends the session ''The Future of ''Made China'''' during the Annual Meeting 2016 of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 21, 2016. Reuters/Ruben Sprich State-backed Chinese technology group Tsinghua Holdings plans to spend $7.5 bi...