Could your Fitbit or Apple Watch detect early COVID-19 symptoms?
By Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitbit and other wearable devices typically linked to exercise are being studied as ways to identify people who are potentially infected with COVID-19...
View ArticleNew York Times CEO sees risk in regulating Google, Facebook to help news media
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Regulation intended to address the news industry’s problems with Google and Facebook could have adverse consequences, said outgoing New York Times Co Chief Executive Officer...
View ArticleElon Musk's SpaceX in talks to raise funds at $44 billion valuation:...
(Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX is looking to raise new capital at a valuation of about $44 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company...
View ArticleApple faces deceptive trade practices probe by multiple U.S. states: document
By Stephen Nellis and Neha Malara (Reuters) - Multiple U.S. states are investigating Apple Inc for potentially deceiving consumers, according to a March document obtained by a tech watchdog group. The...
View ArticleIntel chip delay forces shift to using more outside factories, shares drop
By Stephen Nellis and Munsif Vengattil (Reuters) - Intel Corp said on Thursday its new 7-nanometer chip technology was six months behind schedule and it would consider farming out more work to outside...
View ArticleExclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
By Joseph Menn, Katie Paul and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change...
View ArticleAlibaba Cloud helps Chinese students, foreign schools scale Great Firewall
By Pei Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is seizing on a new business opportunity thrown up by the novel coronavirus: helping foreign universities skirt China's stringent...
View ArticleVodafone targets Frankfurt listing for mast business in early 2021
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone , the world's second biggest mobile operator, said on Friday it would list its European mobile masts business, newly named Vantage Towers, in Frankfurt in...
View ArticleTwenty years on, Japan government's digital ambitions still stuck in piles of...
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Two decades after Japan rolled out an ambitious plan to go digital, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the government's deeply rooted technological shortcomings as...
View ArticleBenetton family investment firm to cut stake in Cellnex to 13%
MADRID (Reuters) - Edizione, the Benetton family's investment firm, will cut its stake in Europe's largest mobile phone towers operator Cellnex to 13% as part of a 4 billion euro ($4.6 billion) capital...
View ArticleComcast's Sky launches tool to track ad effectiveness in real-time
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - UK media company Sky said on Friday it will partner with TV measurement firm TVSquared to allow advertisers to track whether their ads lead to sales and website visits, in an...
View ArticleEU countries must urgently diversify 5G suppliers, Commission says
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU countries must take urgent action to diversify their 5G suppliers, the European Commission said on Friday, a move set to shrink Huawei's [HWT.UL] presence in...
View ArticleBig tech antitrust probe report from Congress likely by early fall
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A much-anticipated deep dive into antitrust allegations against four of America's largest tech companies and recommendations on how to tame their market power...
View ArticleVerizon beats estimates on lockdown boost to phone, internet services
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Friday beat estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on strong demand for its phone and internet services as coronavirus-induced lockdowns prompted a...
View ArticleDutch court suspends Mediaset pan-European plan until Sept.1: sources
MILAN (Reuters) - An Amsterdam court has suspended until Sept. 1 a planned merger of Italy's top commercial broadcaster Mediaset and its Spanish unit under a Dutch holding entity, three sources close...
View ArticleCompanies need immediate rethink on U.S. data transfers, says watchdog
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Companies seeking to transfer data to the United States must revert to new arrangements with immediate effect after the Privacy Shield transatlantic pact was...
View ArticleIntel shares dive on apparent manufacturing retreat; rival chip stocks jump
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Shares of Intel slumped and its rivals surged on Friday after the U.S. chipmaker signaled it may give up manufacturing its own components after falling far behind schedule...
View ArticleMicrosoft, NBA team up to put virtual fans in basketball arenas
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - When the National Basketball Association restarts its coronavirus-interrupted season on July 30 in its "bubble" in Orlando, Florida, the stands could have more than 300...
View ArticleU.S., Russia to hold first space security talks since 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia next week will conduct their first formal, bilateral talks on space security since 2013, following a U.S. allegation that Russia tested a space-based...
View ArticleU.S. House panel confirms delay of Monday's Big Tech CEO hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional hearing scheduled for next week to question the chief executives of Facebook Inc Amazon.com Inc The hearing before the antitrust panel of the U.S. House...
View Article