EU consumer authorities to take on Facebook, Google, Twitter
By Julia FiorettiBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European consumer protection authorities will ask social media companies Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc to amend their terms of service within one...
View ArticleJudge approves $27 million driver settlement in Lyft lawsuit
By Heather SomervilleSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge gave final approval on Thursday to a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit against Lyft Inc, ending a legal case that challenged the...
View ArticleJapan minister agrees to share Toshiba case information with U.S.: Kyodo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan's industry minister said on Thursday he had agreed with the U.S. energy and commerce secretaries to share information on developments involving Toshiba Corp and its...
View ArticleU.S. financial firms embrace cloud, 'fat fingers' notwithstanding
By Anna IrreraNEW YORK (Reuters) - Only two years ago, an outage similar to the one that struck Amazon's cloud services last month would have reinforced U.S. financial firms' view that shifting data...
View ArticleSouth Korea court reassigns Samsung chief's case amid questions about judge's...
By Se Young Lee and Joyce LeeSEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court said on Friday it has reassigned Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee's bribery trial to another judge, following questions about the...
View ArticleApple says to add two more R&D centers in China
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple will set up two new research and development centers in Shanghai and Suzhou in China, it said in a statement in its Chinese website on Friday.Apple said it is adding the two...
View ArticleBaidu leads investment into green car start-up NextEV
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Baidu Inc said on Friday it had led an investment round into green car start-up NextEV, as the Chinese search engine giant looks for new growth drivers and as competition heats up...
View ArticleJapan not considering support for Toshiba, sharing information with U.S.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government said it was not considering steps to support embattled Toshiba Corp <6502.T> and will share information with Washington on developments involving the...
View ArticleChina's Ant confident of closing MoneyGram deal: exec
By Cate CadellBEIJING (Reuters) - Ant Financial Services Group, the world's largest financial technology company, is confident of closing a deal for U.S. money-transfer firm MoneyGram International...
View ArticleNokia's mobile networks head quits, to split business
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia's head of mobile networks, the division which accounted for more than half of Finnish telecom network equipment maker's sales last year, is leaving the company.Nokia said on...
View ArticleUK to question Google after advertisements appear alongside extremist videos
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Friday will question executives from Google over why advertisements marketing the government's services were appearing alongside videos carrying hate speech and extremist...
View ArticleTesla raises $1.2 billion, 20 percent more than planned
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc said on Friday it had raised about $1.2 billion, roughly 20 percent more than it had planned, by selling common shares and convertible debt, ahead of the launch of the crucial...
View ArticleSoftware maker MuleSoft shows promise of 'meat-and-potatoes' tech IPOs
By Heather Somerville and Sweta Singh(Reuters) - Software firm MuleSoft Inc kicked off what is expected to be a string of technology offerings from relatively obscure companies that sell business...
View ArticleAirbnb aims to double African customers this year
By Wendell RoelfCAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Airbnb expects to maintain its rapid growth in Africa this year and double its customer numbers to 1.5 million, its Chief Executive Brian Chesky and regional head...
View ArticleCanadian accused in Yahoo hack case a 'political scapegoat': lawyer
TORONTO (Reuters) - Karim Baratov, the 22-year-old Kazakh-Canadian dual citizen accused of involvement in a massive hack of Yahoo accounts that the United States says was orchestrated by Russian spies,...
View ArticleNew Jersey pastor, Florida programer convicted of bitcoin exchange scheme
By Brendan Pierson(Reuters) - A New Jersey pastor and a Florida software engineer were convicted on Friday of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange avoid having banks and regulators look into...
View ArticleG20 to jointly fight bank sector hacking
By Balazs KoranyiBADEN-BADEN, Germany (Reuters) - The world's biggest economies will pledge to jointly fight cyber attacks on the global banking system, one of the biggest coordinated efforts yet to...
View ArticleCanadian man charged in Yahoo hack loves fancy cars, parties
By Alastair SharpHAMILTON, Ontario (Reuters) - The Canadian charged in connection with a massive hack of Yahoo accounts that the United States says was a Russian plot is a young man who has boasted on...
View ArticlePorsche invests in tech services to offset possible sales decline
STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Porsche will invest hundreds of millions of euros in digital services to generate the revenue needed to offset an expected decline in car sales in the coming years, its...
View ArticleUSITC opens probe of graphics components in TVs, smartphones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday it had voted to open an investigation of certain graphics systems and components used in televisions, smartphones, tablets...
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