Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo Amazon launched a British version of its AmazonFresh food delivery service on Thursday in a long-anticipated move by the world's largest online retailer to break into...
Apple revamps App Store, may not win over developers
The logo of Apple (AAPL) is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Apple Inc announced a series of long-awaited enhancements to its App Store on Wednesday, but the new features may not ease concerns of developers and analysts who say that th...
Tesla CEO says may source Samsung battery for energy storage products
A Tesla logo hang on a building outside of a Tesla dealership in New York, U.S., April 29, 2016. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Tesla Motors Inc may source batteries from Samsung SDI Co Ltd for its energy systems in homes, companies and utilities, rather than for its electric cars, the U.S. company's chief e...
Apple case against Samsung should go back to lower court: DOJ
A customer enters the new Apple store in London August 7, 2010. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett/File Photo The Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that had favored Apple Inc over Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in smartphone patent litigation, and asked that it...
Now roughly equal in value, Uber and Daimler trade gentle blows
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick speaks to students during an interaction at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Mumbai, India, January 19, 2016. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui A promised showdown between the chief executives of German luxury car maker Daimler and ride-sharing firm Uber, Silicon Val...
Slicing Into a Point-of-Sale Botnet
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news of an ongoing credit card breach involving CiCi’s Pizza, a restaurant chain in the United States with more than 500 locations. What follows is an exclusive look at a point-of-sale botnet that appears to have enslaved dozens of ...
Slicing Into a Point-of-Sale Botnet
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news of an ongoing credit card breach involving CiCi’s Pizza, a restaurant chain in the United States with more than 500 locations. What follows is an exclusive look at a point-of-sale botnet that appears to have enslaved dozens of ...
Top auto regulator: Nimble rules needed for self-driving cars
A Google self-driving car is seen inside a lobby at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters/Stephen Lam The top U.S. vehicle safety regulator said on Wednesday the government needs to be more nimble in designing rules for self-driving vehicles. The industry "i...
Russian watchdog discussing out of court settlement with Google: Ifax
A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich April16, 2015. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann/Files Russia's state competition watchdog FAS is discussing with Alphabet Inc's Google an out of court settlement, Interfax news agency on Wednesday quoted a deputy FAS head as saying. FAS ruled...
Canada's RBC eyes Silicon Valley talent at fintech hub
A Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) sign is seen outside of a branch in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 26, 2016. Reuters/Chris Wattie Royal Bank of Canada wants to team up with Silicon Valley's brightest talent to position itself at the forefront of new financial technologies, Vice President of Innovation Ga...
Tech-savvy patients from Gulf to China to drive Philips health
A Philips logo is seen at Philips headquarters, where Philips CEO Frans van Houten gave a presentation of the company's 2013 full-year results, in Amsterdam January 28, 2014. Reuters/Toussaint Kluiters/United Photos Demand from technology-savvy patients seeking control over their medical data will o...
France launches attack alert app ahead of Euro 2016
Football Soccer - UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament - Enghien-les-Bains, France - 20/04/2016. Logo for the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer championships. Reuters/Charles Platiau France launched an app to alert users to attacks on Wednesday, two days before the Euro 2016 soccer championship gets underway un...
U.S. judge probes Uber over allegations of fraud in antitrust case
An Uber car is seen parked with the driver's lunch left on the dashboard in Venice, California, United States on July 15, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Uber must hand over documents to a New York judge probing whether private investigators hired by the ride-hailing company fraudulently sou...
Yahoo hires investment bank to sell about 3,000 patents: WSJ
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 Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) has hired boutique investment bank Black Stone IP LLC to sell about 3,000 of the internet company's patents, the Wall Street Journal rep...
Talent shortage stymies Indonesia's tech scene
Indonesian online retailer Bilna spent two years looking for a chief technology officer before it finally discovered Ridy Lie, who had returned home after eight years with Amazon in the United States. Until Lie, the company had struggled to find someone who could "take us to the next level," said Ek...
Bezos says Amazon to invest additional $3 billion in India
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) presents the Global Leadership Award to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) 41st annual Leadership Summit in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2016. Reuters/Yuri Gripas Amazon Inc (AMZN.O) Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday the co...
India's colonial-era monsoon forecasting to get high-tech makeover
India's forecasting of the monsoon - the crop-nourishing seasonal rains that are the lifeblood for farmers in the country of 1.3 billion people - is getting a high-tech makeover. Jettisoning a statistical method introduced under British colonial rule in the 1920s, India's meteorology office is spend...
British lawmakers pass new digital surveillance law
A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski British lawmakers passed on Tuesday a new surveillance law to give security agencies more extensive monitoring capabilities in the digital age after several am...
U.S. regulators, FBI warn banks on cyber threat after Bangladesh heist
An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. Reuters/Kacper Pempel U.S. regulators on Tuesday told banks to review the cyber security they have in place to protect against fraudulent money transfers and other thre...
NFL's Twitter account hacked, commissioner is fine: NFL
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is seen on the field before Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, February 7, 2016. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The National Football League's Twitter (TWTR.N) account was...
FBI warned banks on cyber attacks after Bangladesh heist
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation last month urged banks to look for signs of possible cyber attacks in the wake of the massive heist at Bangladesh's central bank, ask...
NFL's Twitter account hacked, commissioner is fine -NFL
The National Football League's Twitter (TWTR.N) account was hacked on Tuesday and a false tweet was sent that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died, an NFL spokesman said on his Twitter account. "The @nfl Twitter account was hacked. @nflcommish is alive and well," league spokesman Brian McCarthy said....
U.S. ITC launches probe of certain portable electronic devices
The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had launched a patent infringement investigation into the import and sale of certain portable electronic devices utilizing haptic technology. It said the investigation was based on a complaint filed by Immersion Corp. The agency said it had ...
Sovereign wealth funds throw funding lifeline to tech ventures
A succession of funding deals by deep-pocketed sovereign wealth funds have thrown a life preserver to some of the world’s biggest private tech firms whose high valuations have come under scrutiny in the past year. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States along with state-backed investors in Singapor...
Nissan's Infiniti looks to offer highway self-driving on new models
Infiniti, the luxury division of Japanese carmaker Nissan, is considering rolling out highway self-driving capabilities for most new models, its president said on Tuesday, potentially overtaking German rivals in a race to offer autonomous driving. Executives for Chinese and global automakers speakin...
Wall Street hopes software helps it hire loyal bankers
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York April 12, 2016. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Clinching a job on Wall Street soon may have as much to do with beating an algorithm as nailing the interview. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup ...
IBM signs $300 million IT deal with Emirates Airline
The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company IBM (IBM) is seen on a computer screen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson IBM on Tuesday said it signed a $300 million, ten-year technology services agreement with Dubai’s ...
Samsung SDI making progress in talks with Tesla to supply batteries - source
A Tesla Model S charges at a Tesla Supercharger station in Cabazon, California, U.S. May 18, 2016. Reuters/Sam Mircovich Samsung SDI is making progress in talks with Tesla Motors to supply batteries for the U.S. automaker's Model 3 electric car as well as its energy storage products, a source with d...
Apple sells 30-year bond in Taiwan at 4.15 percent yield - sources
The logo of Apple (AAPL) is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Apple Inc sold a 30-year U.S. dollar bond in Taiwan at a yield of 4.15 percent, sources said on Tuesday, aiming to raise between $1 billion and $1.2 billion in the first issu...
Verizon to submit $3 billion bid for Yahoo's internet business: WSJ
The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Verizon is seen at a retail store in San Diego, California April 21, 2016. Reuters/Mike Blake Verizon Communications Inc plans to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion for Yahoo Inc's core internet business, the Wall...