George Cope, President and Chief Executive Officer of BCE, addresses shareholders at the company's Annual General Meeting, in Toronto April 30, 2015. Reuters/Fred Thornhill Canadian telecom and media company BCE Inc (BCE.TO) said it would buy Manitoba Telecom Services Inc (MBT.TO) for about C$3.1 bi...

The logo of of Rocket Internet, a German venture capital group is pictured in this September 24, 2014 illustration photo in Sarajevo. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Rocket Internet said on Monday two supervisory board members from long-standing investor Kinnevik are stepping down after the Swedish fund hit shar...

Last week, I learned about a vulnerability that exposed all 866 million account credentials harvested by pwnedlist.com, a service designed to help companies track public password breaches that may create security problems for their users. The vulnerability has since been fixed, b...

Last week, I learned about a vulnerability that exposed all 866 million account credentials harvested by pwnedlist.com, a service designed to help companies track public password breaches that may create security problems for their users. The vulnerability has since been fixed, b...

Bitcoin (virtual currency) coins are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright told the BBC on Monday he was the creator of controversial digital currency bitcoin, ending years of spe...

A general view of Qatar National Bank's head office building in Doha October 28, 2012. Reuters/Fadi Al-Assaad Qatar National Bank, the Middle East's largest lender by assets, said it had taken immediate steps to ensure customers would not suffer any financial loss after a security breach last week e...

South Africa’s SALT telescope has helped detect the first white dwarf pulsar, the latest co-discovery that has astronomers eager to use the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere to unlock the galaxy's secrets. Quick reaction times, as well as being significantly cheaper than sim...

The secretive U.S. Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court did not deny a single government request in 2015 for electronic surveillance orders granted for foreign intelligence purposes, continuing a longstanding trend, a Justice Department document showed. The court received 1,457 requests last year...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a pair of the touch controllers for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam A Facebook Inc (FB.O) shareholder filed a proposed class action lawsuit on Frida...

A Lexus version of a Google Self Driving car is shown in Moutain View, California, U.S., April 8, 2016. AUTOS-DRIVERLESS/ Reuters/Alexandria Sage Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV are close to agreeing on a partnership that could break boundaries between Silicon Valley and the auto industry in...

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in this February 24, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files Yahoo Inc has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon Communications Inc, with most offers involvin...

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 Apple was set on Friday to have its worst week on the stock market since 2013, as worries festered about a slowdown in iPhone sales and after influential sha...

Skimming attacks on ATMs increased at an alarming rate last year for both American and European banks and their customers, according to recent stats collected by fraud trackers. The trend appears to be continuing into 2016, with outbreaks of skimming activity visiting a much broader swath of th...

Skimming attacks on ATMs increased at an alarming rate last year for both American and European banks and their customers, according to recent stats collected by fraud trackers. The trend appears to be continuing into 2016, with outbreaks of skimming activity visiting a much broader swath of th...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar The source of Amazon.com's namesake river may be uncertain, but there's no doubt about where the online retailer's surging revenue is flowing from - just about everywhere. Amazo...

People walk past an IBM logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 25, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea/File Photo IBM on Friday announced new services to help companies design and develop blockchain technology in a secure environment in the cloud, a network of computers where users ...

BRUSSELS - Google is likely to face its first European Union antitrust sanction this year, with little prospect of it settling a test case with the bloc's regulator over its shopping service, people familiar with the matter said. There are few incentives left for either party to reach a deal in a si...

A Tivo Bolt is displayed during the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2016. The $299.00 unified entertainment system combines a cable box, a DVR and a streaming box into one device. Reuters/Steve Marcus Digital entertainment guide provider Rovi Corp said on Friday it would buy TiVo...

An employee works inside the office of U.S. online cab-hailing company Uber, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, April 24, 2015. Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee A flurry of complaints from Uber [UBER.UL] drivers about an unusually high number of canceled bookings was the spark that ignited a bitter leg...

New Zealand will launch a new visa to attract technology entrepreneurs as it tries to offset its struggling dairy industry, but it may struggle to beat Australia in the race to become the Silicon Valley of the South Pacific. Up to 400 Global Impact Visas would be offered over a four-year pilot begin...

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A man looks at LG Electronics' TV sets, which are made with LG Display flat screens, at its store in Seoul, South Korea, April 26, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji LG Display Co said on Friday it plans to invest 450 billion won ($395.99 million) in South Korea to build production capacity for flexible orga...

An Apple iPhone 5c is on display at the Apple Retail Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York September 20, 2013. Apple Inc's newest smartphone models hit stores on Friday in many countries across the world, including Australia and China. Reuters/Adrees Latif The FBI paid under $1 million for th...

A neon Google sign is seen in the foyer of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power/File Photo The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a rule change that would let U.S. judges issue search warrants for access to computers loc...

The logo of global online travel brand Expedia is pictured at the International Tourism Trade Fair (ITB) in Berlin, Germany, March 9, 2016. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Expedia Inc reported a 38.6 percent jump in quarterly revenue, helped largely by a string of acquisitions. Net loss attributable to the ...

An Amazon logo is seen on a worker's jacket at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Wroclaw, Poland, in this file photograph dated December 3, 2015. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/files Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) quarterly revenue surged 28.2 percent as its Prime loyalty program helped attract m...

The logo for LinkedIn Corporation, a social networking networking website for people in professional occupations, is shown in Mountain View, California February 6, 2013. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo LinkedIn Corp (LNKD.N), the operator of the world's biggest online network for professionals, ...

Members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) picket in front of Verizon Communications Inc. corporate offices during a strike in New York City, April 13, 2016. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Verizon Communications Inc said it had presented a revised contract proposal to the unions representing n...

Billionaire activist-investor Carl Icahn gives an interview on FOX Business Network's Neil Cavuto show in New York February 11, 2014. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said Thursday he had sold his entire stake in Apple Inc, citing the risk of China's influence on the...

A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Online activists who claim ties to Anonymous said on Thursday they had begun to leak documents from Kenya's foreign ministry as part of a campaign to expose go...