The logo of gaming company Amaya Inc is seen at its head office in Montreal June 22, 2015. Reuters/Christinne Muschi Amaya Inc Chief Executive David Baazov was taking an indefinite paid leave of absence, the Canadian gambling website operator said, a week after Baazov was charged with insider tradin...

Logo of German company SAP is pictured at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, March, 6, 2012. Reuters/Fabian Bimmer Business planning software giant SAP hiked the long-term stock options awarded to senior executives in 2015 while the company's board recommended a 5 percent rise in its annual dividen...

Employees work inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province in this May 26, 2010 file photo. Reuters/Bobby Yip/Files The Taiwan Stock Exchange said on Tuesday that shares in Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (2317.TW) (Foxconn) will be suspended from trade on We...

Seven in 10 people say the "dark net" - an anonymous online home to both criminals and activists fearful of government surveillance - should be shut down, according to a global Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. The findings, from a poll of at least 1,000 people in each of 24 countries, come as policym...

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) has set an April 11 deadline to submit preliminary bids for its web business and Asian assets, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources. Yahoo...

The Apple Store is seen in Santa Monica, California, United States, February 23, 2016. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. Justice Department said it successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and asked a court to withdraw an order compelling Appl...

MedStar Health, one of the biggest medical providers in the Washington, D.C., area, said on Monday it shut down its computer network after the discovery of a computer virus. "Networks temporarily shut down to prevent virus spread," Medstar, the operator of 10 hospitals in Washington and Maryland, sa...

Virtual reality company Oculus started shipping its highly awaited Rift headsets from Monday, about two years after the company was acquired by social media giant Facebook Inc (FB.O). The earliest investors in Oculus's fundraising campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter in 2012 started receivin...

A magnifying glass is held in front of a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski The FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of "ransomware" virus used ...

Tim Westergren (bottom center-left) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange June 15, 2011. Reuters/Ben Hider-NYSE Euronext Online music streaming service Pandora Media Inc appointed founder Tim Westergren as its chief executive officer to replace Brian McAndrews. The company's shares fell 7.9 pe...

The GM logo is seen at the General Motors Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Lansing, Michigan October 26, 2015. Photo taken October 26. Reuters/Rebecca Cook General Motors Co has won U.S. antitrust approval for the purchase of Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation Inc, the Federal Trade Commi...

An employee walks in front of the logo of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) at its headquarters in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, November 19, 2015. Reuters/Pichi Chuang Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world's top contract chip maker, said on Monday it has signed an a...

Only install mobile apps from trusted places, and always double-check the privacy settings to ensure you are not giving away too much information.

A Dell logo is pictured on the side of a computer in this photo illustration in the Manhattan borough of New York October 12, 2015. Reuters/Carlo Allegri Dell Inc is set to announce an agreement on Monday to sell its non-core information technology consulting division to Japan's NTT Data Corp for $3...

Rescue workers move a body from the site of a blast outside a public park in Lahore, Pakistan, March 27, 2016. Reuters/Mohsin Raza Facebook Inc apologized to users on the other side of the world from Sunday's suicide bombing in Pakistan who received computer-addressed notices asking if they were saf...

A laggard in embracing the 'fintech', or financial technology, revolution, Japan is set to ease investment restrictions that could free up the flow of capital in an economy sitting on an estimated $9 trillion in individuals' cash deposits. Strict regulation, easy access to credit due to rock-bottom ...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation said. The talks are preliminary, the person added, and Microsoft is focused on preserving the r...

The logo of the German department of Amazon is pictured outside the Amazon logistics center in Koblenz, western Germany December 23, 2015. Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay Amazon is preparing to launch a two-hour delivery service in Berlin, German newspaper Welt reported on Saturday, citing Berlin transport ...

A pedestrian walks under a logo of Sharp Corp outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Sharp Corp (6753.T) and Taiwan's Foxconn are set to sign a takeover deal next week after repeated delays, with the two sides set to agree on a smaller bailout than...

A Microsoft logo is seen at a pop-up site for the new Windows 10 operating system at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Microsoft is "deeply sorry" for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a co...

A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Apple Inc said the U.S. Justice Department's new attempts to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters without the tech giant's help could e...

An open sign is seen at the office of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc during a driver recruitment event in Hong Kong, China December 29, 2015. Reuters/Tyrone Siu Ride hailing app company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is generating more than $1 billion in profit a year in its top 30 cities globally, ...

When browsing online, encrypting your online activities is one of the best ways to protect yourself. Make sure your online connection is encrypted by making sure HTTPS is in the website address and that there is a green lock next to it.

An aerial view shows Sharp Corp's headquarters in Osaka, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 25, 2016. Reuters/Kyodo Sharp Corp said its annual earnings were likely to fall short of its official guidance citing a slowing China market, a factor that Taiwan's Foxconn is expected to us...

ZTE's logo on its R&D center is seen in Beijing, China, March 22, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon China's commerce ministry said on Friday it hoped telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp could be removed as soon as possible from a U.S. list of companies slapped with tough export restrictions this month. ...

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea Microsoft Corp executives have held meetings with equity firms that are considering bids for Yahoo Inc and told them that Microsoft might be willing to offer "significant financin...

Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix, delivers a keynote address at the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2016. Reuters/Steve Marcus Netflix Inc said it had been lowering the quality of its video for customers watching its service on wireless networks such as AT&T and V...

A 3D-printed logo for Twitter is seen in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 26, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic Tay, Microsoft Corp's so-called chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to engage with millennials on Twitter, lasted less than a day before it was hobb...

A woman is cashed out at a Verizon store in New York's financial district May 12, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said an attacker had exploited a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal to steal contact information of a number of customers. The compan...

Singer songwriter Will.i.Am poses for photographers on the red carpet at the world premiere of the new James Bond 007 film ''Spectre'' at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, October 26, 2015. Reuters/Luke MacGregor Apple Inc's widely anticipated first original television show will feature the ...