Samsung Electronics to change quality assurance processes after Note 7...
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday said it would make significant changes to its quality assurance processes in the wake of the withdrawal of its Galaxy Note 7 devices over safety...
View ArticleOPPO leapfrogs smartphone rivals with ad blitz and sales force
By Eveline Danubrata and Sijia JiangJAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese smart phone company OPPO doesn’t believe in subtle marketing.It has built a massive network of 320,000 retail outlets across...
View ArticleFujitsu confirms Lenovo PC tie-up talks, says to retain brand
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fujitsu Ltd on Thursday confirmed it was in talks with China's Lenovo Group to cooperate in the design and manufacture of personal computers (PC), and that any outcome would...
View ArticleItaly judge agrees tax probe settlement with head of Apple's Irish unit: source
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan judge has accepted a settlement agreement with the head of Apple's Irish-based unit Apple Sales International as part of a probe into allegations the U.S. tech giant failed to...
View ArticleFirst Mercedes car under new electric brand to be made in Bremen
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz will build the first model under its new EQ electric vehicle brand in the northern German city of Bremen by the end of the decade, parent Daimler said on...
View ArticleTech privacy ally Feingold leads in Wisconsin Senate race
By Dustin VolzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Next month's Senate election in Wisconsin could gain Silicon Valley a key ally in Washington in the high-tech industry's battle against the U.S. government's...
View ArticleQualcomm to buy NXP for $38 billion in biggest chip deal
By Narottam Medhora and Supantha Mukherjee(Reuters) - Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc agreed to buy NXP Semiconductors NV for about $38 billion in the biggest-ever deal in the semiconductor industry,...
View ArticleSoftware maker Misys tops list of ditched UK IPOs
By Dasha Afanasieva and Rachel ArmstrongLONDON (Reuters) - After struggling for weeks to woo buyers for a proposed public offering, financial software firm Misys scrapped plans to relist on the London...
View ArticleApple adds touch screen keys to MacBook Pro, price jump startles some
By Deborah M. ToddCUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a revamped MacBook Pro on Thursday, adding a fingerprint reader, replacing function keys with a small touch screen and raising prices...
View ArticleTwitter cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profit; Vine discontinued
By Dustin Volz and Supantha Mukherjee(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said Thursday it would cut 9 percent of its global workforce to keep costs down even as quarterly results eclipsed Wall Street's beaten-down...
View ArticleLawyer urges court to speed up 2001 Deutsche Telekom case
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - One of Germany's longest-running business court cases reopened on Thursday, with the lawyer for the plaintiffs against Deutsche Telekom urging judges to speed up proceedings as...
View ArticleTesla up on surprise profit, reassurance on capital plans
By Tenzin Pema and Sayantani Ghosh(Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc's shares rose more than 5 percent in early trading on Thursday as investors welcomed the electric car maker's first quarterly profit in...
View ArticleFCC will not say if agency will review AT&T purchase of Time Warner
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday declined to say if he thinks the commission will review AT&T's proposed $85.4...
View ArticleRussia's Putin says cyber attacks are unacceptable
KRASNAYA POLYANA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that cyber attacks or other types of interference in other countries' internal affairs were intolerable.The U.S....
View ArticleNew 3D printed microscope lets kids 'play' microbiology
By Ben GruberPALO ALTO (Reuters) - Playing classic video games like Pac-Man with living single-celled microbes thinner than a human hair is now possible thanks to an interactive microscope developed by...
View ArticleTwitter's video-sharing mobile app Vine to close
By Amy TenneryNEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter Inc announced Thursday that it would discontinue the video-sharing mobile app Vine, as it moves to cut 9 percent of its workforce worldwide to keep costs down...
View ArticleCenturyLink nears deal to merge with Level 3 -sources
By Liana B. Baker and Greg RoumeliotisNEW YORK (Reuters) - CenturyLink Inc and Level 3 Communications are in advanced talks to merge, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would...
View ArticleU.S. Senate panel to hold hearing on AT&T-Time Warner deal on December 7
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee will hold a hearing on Dec. 7 on the proposed merger of Time Warner Inc and AT&T Inc , and the companies' chief...
View ArticleU.S. lawmakers raise privacy concerns over new hacking rules
By Dustin VolzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Congress on Thursday asked the Justice Department to clarify how a looming rule change to the government's hacking...
View ArticleUber sees flying commuters in 10 years
By Alexandria SageSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Flying commuters like George Jetson could be whizzing to work through the sky less than 10 years from now, according to ride-services provider Uber, which...
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