Ashley Madison plaintiffs cannot sue anonymously over hack, judge says
TORONTO (Reuters) - Plaintiffs leading a lawsuit against online dating website Ashley Madison over a security breach that exposed the personal data of customers must publicly identify themselves to...
View ArticleUber hit with record $11.4 million fine in Pennsylvania
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc was fined a record $11.4 million on Thursday by a Pennsylvania regulator, which found that the ride-sharing service operated illegally in the state...
View ArticleFBI paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino iPhone
By Julia EdwardsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he...
View ArticleGoogle's parent Alphabet results hit by rising traffic costs, strong dollar
By Deborah M. Todd and Narottam Medhora(Reuters) - Google's parent Alphabet Inc missed Wall Street targets for first-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as it spent more money to build traffic for...
View ArticleMicrosoft revenue, profit miss estimates
(This April 21 story fixes the headline to "miss" from"misses")(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reported results that fell short of analysts' expectations, showing its high-profile cloud business cannot...
View ArticleAMD flags possible stop to revenue declines, shares soar
By Kshitiz Goliya(Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc's forecast implied that the struggling chipmaker could post a surprise rise in current quarter revenue, ending a run of six quarters of declines,...
View ArticleIntel and Microsoft face different challenges in shifts to cloud
By Sarah McBrideSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Financial results from Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp this week brought into sharp relief the challenges the onetime PC partners face as they shift more of...
View ArticlePentagon awards HP Enterprise $443 million technology contract
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has awarded HP Enterprise Services, a unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, a $443 million contract for technology services and infrastructure for the U.S....
View ArticleSecureWorks raises $112 million in year's first technology IPO
By Lauren Hirsch(Reuters) - Dell Inc's cyber security unit SecureWorks Corp raised $112 million in the first U.S. initial public offering of a technology company in 2016, less than it had hoped for,...
View ArticleUber drivers remain independent contractors as lawsuit settled
By Dan LevineSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber has agreed to pay up to $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit which resolves a major challenge to its business model by allowing the ride-hailing...
View ArticleIn Asia, Netflix trips on regulation, content, and competition
By Nataly Pak and Eveline DanubrataSEOUL/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Months after its global rollout, Netflix Inc is facing problems in several major Asian markets as it struggles to provide enough strong...
View ArticleApple's book, film services go dark in China
By Paul CarstenBEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc's online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing,...
View ArticleGOME says opens store on Amazon.com's China online marketplace
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd has opened a store on Amazon.com Inc's online marketplace in the mainland, as China consumer-focused firms make a push towards...
View ArticleAlphabet drops most in three years after first quarter but analysts upbeat
(Reuters) - Ruth Porat couldn't have been clearer: Alphabet Inc's chief financial officer said on Thursday that Google's parent needed to step up investment to boost traffic.Analysts agreed. Investors...
View ArticleDell SecureWorks, 2016's first tech IPO, fizzles on Wall Street
By Jim Finkle and Heather Somerville(Reuters) - The lackluster market debut of SecureWorks Corp, the cyber unit of Dell Inc, failed to rally the battered technology U.S. IPO market on Friday, a...
View ArticleEU lawmaker seeks bigger clean tech fund, targeted CO2 permits
By Alissa de CarbonnelBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should boost its clean technology fund and adopt a more targeted approach to allocating free carbon permits to keep industry from moving...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Google agree to drop complaints against each other
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google have reached a deal to withdraw all the regulatory complaints against each other, the companies told Reuters."Microsoft has agreed to withdraw its...
View ArticleDutch police seize encrypted communication network with 19,000 users
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police said on Friday they have arrested the owner of Ennetcom, a provider of encrypted communications for a network of 19,000 customers, on suspicion of using the business...
View ArticleChina ban on Apple services is a challenge for key growth area
By Julia Love(Reuters) - The blocking of Apple mobile entertainment services in China poses fresh challenges for the tech company as it prepares to report its first-ever drop in iPhone sales. The news...
View ArticleLook Mao, no hands! China's roadmap to self-driving cars
By Jake SpringBEIJING (Reuters) - In the race to develop self-driving cars, the United States and Europe lead in technology, but China is coming up fast in the outside lane with a regulatory structure...
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