Israelis can now use their smartphones to make live video distress calls to emergency responders, a first-of-its-kind service that, if successful, could set a new standard for countries around the world. Video chats, texting and location detection may be humdrum features for today's smartphone user,...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp (4901.T), which lost out to Canon Inc (7751.T) in the race to be picked as preferred bidder for conglomerate Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) medical unit, qu...
India's parliament is set to pass legislation that gives federal agencies access to the world's biggest biometric database in the interests of national security, raising fears the privacy of a billion people could be compromised. The move comes as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cracks down ...
A vintage wheelcap of a BMW is picturesd before a news conference marking the company's 100th birthday festivities in Munich, southern Germany March 7, 2016. Reuters/Michael Dalder German carmaker BMW unveiled a new strategy on Wednesday to focus on achieving further advances in electric vehicles, a...
A screen displays the Instagram logo during a presentation by co-founder Kevin Systrom as he announces the launch of a new direct image messaging service named Instagram Direct in New York December 12, 2013. Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Files Facebook Inc's picture-sharing app Instagram said it is reshuffl...
British mobile payments company Paysafe Group Plc (PAYS.L) posted a 68 percent increase in full-year 2015 revenue as more customers used its payment processing services. Revenue rose to $613.4 million for the year ended Dec. 31 from $365.0 million a year earlier. (Reporting by Rahul B in Bengaluru; ...
Foxconn has completed its due diligence on Japan's Sharp Corp through the end of 2015, but is seeking guidance from the loss-making electronics maker on its latest quarterly performance, a person familiar with the matter said. Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is finalizing a...
Guests and employees chat under a ZTE company logo in front of the venue of the company's 15th anniversary celebration in Beijing April 18, 2013. Reuters/Barry Huang Shares of China’s ZTE Corp are expected to resume trading on Wednesday morning in Hong Kong and the company will appeal new U.S....
A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken February 26, 2016. Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward... Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustr...
Sony's Project Morpheus ''London Heist'' video game virtual reality headset and move controllers are seen at the Sony PlayStation booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles, California, United States, June 16, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Sony Corp on Tuesday announced its Pla...
Journalists take a test drive in a prototype of Google's own self-driving vehicle during a media preview of Google's current autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage Members of a U.S. Senate panel and firms working on self-driving vehicles on Tues...
U.S. officials will travel to Brussels this week to drum up support for a transatlantic data transfer pact agreed last month that will facilitate billions of dollars worth of online business but which must overcome European regulators' concerns over privacy protection. Agreed on Feb. 2 after two yea...
ICAP, which matches buyers and sellers of bonds, swaps and currencies, said it has become the first to distribute data on trades to customers using the same blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency bitcoin. Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, creates a shared database in w...
A smartphone app for Lyft drivers is seen during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam The Teamsters Union and drivers working for ride-hailing service Lyft in California plan to file legal objections to a class-action lawsuit settlement that would co...
A new breed of unmanned aerial vehicle that is safe to fly at close proximity to crowds has been developed by a spin-off team from Swiss university ETH Zurich. The helium-filled flying machine, known as Skye, combines the manoeuvrability of a traditional quadcopter with the energy efficiency of a bl...
The former chief financial officer of Kit Digital Inc pleaded guilty on Tuesday to engaging in a scheme to deceive investors about the now-bankrupt online video management company's financial health. Robin Smyth, 62, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to five counts including securities fr...
A courier of Ele.me food delivery smartphone application travels on his electric bicycle along a street in Shanghai, China, October 9, 2015. Reuters Aly Song China's annual consumer rights day TV show took aim at online food delivery apps, faked online sales and dodgy false teeth when it aired late ...
Choi Jung-yoon shows a product at her sex toy shop in Seoul, South Korea, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji It's not just computers and mobile phones that are vulnerable to cyber attack, according to software firm Trend Micro. As more devices are hooked up to the Internet, it could be anything ...
The logo of Alibaba Group is seen inside the company's headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province early November 11, 2014. Reuters/Aly Song Alibaba plans to train a million teenagers in rural China to help start their own online businesses, taking e-commerce to the country's vast rural areas, the o...
An AT&T Logo is pictured on the side of a building in Pasadena, California, January 26, 2015. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Ratings agency Moody's Investors Services said Tuesday a proposal by U.S. communications regulators to impose privacy restrictions on broadband providers like Verizon Communication...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen at a building in Tokyo in this September 30, 2015 file photo. Reuters/Toru Hanai/Files Japan's Toshiba Corp revealed additional accounting irregularities on Friday after a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal last year, rekindling doubts over the company's pledge ...
Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program beat South Korean professional Lee Sedol in the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, recovering from Sunday's loss to win its fourth match in a five-game series. AlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, had already clinched a series victory with it...
Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman poses inside his office in Dhaka in this October 2, 2013 file photo. Reuters/Andrew Biraj/Files Bangladesh’s central bank governor Atiur Rahman said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign after $81 million was stolen from the bank in one of the lar...
Maya Jackson, a Lyft driver from Sacramento, navigates a Lyft app on a smartphone during a photo opportunity in San Francisco, California February 3, 2016. Reuters/Stephen Lam Drivers for ride-hailing app Lyft will no longer face the imperative of owning a car under a rental program launched on Mond...
FBI Director James B. Comey attends a news conference on terrorism after speaking at the NYPD Shield Conference in the Manhattan borough of New York, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Darren Ornitz China wants to have deeper internet security and anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, China's p...
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Applied Materials Inc, the world's largest supplier of equipment used to make semiconductor chips, plans to invest 4 billion yuan ($615 million) to expand in the China market over the next few years, the China Daily quoted company CEO Gary Dickerson as saying. China has been ploughing tens of billio...
An Apple logo is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in downtown Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2016. Reuters/Yves Herman The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation coul...
The word 'password' is pictured on a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of...
An advertisement for Verizon is seen at Times Square in New York, May 12, 2015. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton A unit of telecoms multinational Verizon Communications signed a direct interconnection agreement with the Cuban state monopoly Etecsa, expanding on existing roaming services in the Caribbean co...
