Category: Biz Tech

An employee stands in front of the Apple flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York April 22, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Files WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment of rival streaming music apps is illegal under antitrust law, according to three industry sources.Apple recently launched a new music streaming service, Apple Music. It also provides the App Store platform for competing streaming services including Jango, Spotify, Rhapsody and others.Apple takes a 30 percent cut

Ellen Pao speaks to the media after losing her high profile gender discrimination lawsuit against venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers in San Francisco, California March 27, 2015. Reuters/Beck Diefenbach SAN FRANCISCO Ellen Pao resigned as acting chief executive of Reddit Friday in the latest sign of turmoil at the site, recently roiled by the firing of a popular employee and ongoing tensions over the limits of free speech on its social-news platform.Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, also a co-founder

People queue outside an Apple store to buy the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in Beijing November 16, 2014. Reuters/Petar Kujundzic SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) stock was heading toward its first five-session losing streak since January on Thursday as investors worried about the economic health of China, a key market for iPhones.Apple shares were down 2 percent at $120.15 in afternoon trade and have lost about 4 percent since July 1.In the first three months of the year, for

Pedestrians walk past a logo of Toshiba Corp outside an electronics retailer in Tokyo, Japan, June 25, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino/Files TOKYO An independent investigation of Toshiba Corp's accounting irregularities is looking at the role played by top officials, people familiar with the matter said, a move that could force a management overhaul at the Japanese conglomerate.As the probe has widened from looking into accounting errors at Toshiba's infrastructure business to checking books for a broad range of operations, investigators have interviewed

SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft Inc's (MSFT.O) future in mobile devices likely hinges on the software maker's ability to convince developers to create apps for the phone version of Windows 10 after its ill-fated Nokia acquisition helped trigger 7,800 layoffs.The job cuts announcement is an acknowledgement that its 2013 $7.2 billion purchase of Nokia was never going to help paltry sales of its Windows Phone, and that it needed a new approach.Microsoft said it would also write down about $7.6 billion

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, 2015. Reuters/Mike Brown/Files CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla SpaceX is still homing in on why its Falcon 9 rocket exploded after liftoff last week, unable to resolve conflicting data radioed back to the ground before the explosion, CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday.“It’s a huge blow to SpaceX. We take these missions incredibly seriously,” Musk said at a webcast International Space Station research and development conference in Boston.So

DETROIT Google Inc has begun testing its self-driving cars in Austin, Texas, expanding efforts to gather information on how the prototypes interact with traffic, road conditions and people, the company said early Tuesday.Google has been testing self-driving prototypes since 2009, mainly around its Silicon Valley headquarters in Mountain View, California.Google is sending a second specially equipped Lexus RX450h prototype this week to Austin.Last month, the company began testing tiny, bubble-shaped self-driving prototype vehicles of its own design on public

SAN FRANCISCO When it comes to dashboard displays that are more like smart phones, two things are clear: Customers want them, and automakers are intent on supplying them.But are they really a good idea?Car companies answer with an emphatic yes. They say outsized dashboard displays that behave more like smart phones will boost revenue and attract buyers. And they also insist the new screens will make driving less dangerous, because of well-integrated voice controls and large touch screens that

A ball boy holds a ball on Court 18 at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2015. Reuters/Henry Browne Deep in the bowels of the All England Club, an army of employees from one of the world's technology giants are teaching a computer named Watson to master tennis.Seven-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer can relax though. A silicon-chipped cyborg is not about to wreak havoc on his beloved Centre Court.Watson is a cognitive computer designed by IBM that played Gary

GLEN, N.H. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused China on Saturday of stealing commercial secrets and "huge amounts of government information," and of trying to "hack into everything that doesn't move in America."Clinton's language on China appeared to be far stronger than that usually used by President Barack Obama's Democratic administration.Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Clinton said she wanted to see China's peaceful rise."But we also have to be fully vigilant, China's military is growing

A fan of video game Minecraft waves a foam pick-axe in front of a screen display at the Minecon convention in London July 4, 2015. Reuters/Matthew Tostevin LONDON For hours, the dedicated queued on Saturday to carry off a prized autograph or to pose for a selfie with some of the biggest celebrities of a new generation.Not for them the rock stars or sporting heroes, but video gamers who have won millions of global followers piling up blocks in the Minecraft

A Swiss man attempting to circumnavigate the globe with an aircraft powered only by the sun's energy landed in Hawaii on Friday, after a record-breaking five-day nonstop solo flight across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.The Solar Impulse 2 is the first aircraft to fly day and night without any fuel. Pilot Andre Borschberg's 120-hour voyage shattered the 76-hour record for nonstop flight by late American adventurer Steve Fossett in 2006 on the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer.Borschberg, who took off from Nagoya,

A supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange holds a placard with his mouth during a gathering outside the Ecuador embassy in London, Britain June 19, 2015. Reuters/Stefan WermuthPARIS France swiftly rejected on Friday a request for asylum by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.The founder of the transparency website had appealed directly to President Francois Hollande, days after Wikileaks published documents showing the United States had spied on successive French leaders, including Hollande himself."My life is in danger," Assange wrote in a letter

The Yelp Inc. logo is seen in their offices in Chicago, Illinois, March 5, 2015. Reuters/Jim YoungYelp Inc (YELP.N), operator of consumer review website yelp.com, had temporarily decided not to pursue a sale, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.The company has had several interested suitors after which it hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) to help find a buyer, Bloomberg said on Thursday.The company's shares fell as much as 15 percent to a two-year low of $36.10 in

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged more companies to make electronic and digital goods on Wednesday, reviving his campaign promise to bridge India's digital divide backed by over $70 billion in investment pledges.Launching a "Digital India Week" aimed at popularising the government's push to connect 250,000 villages by 2019, Modi spoke of the need to boost local manufacturing of electronics - the country's largest import after oil."Why can't we make quality electronic goods that are globally competitive?" Modi

MUMBAI Indian property firm Housing.com, backed by Japan's SoftBank, ousted its co-founder and chief executive officer on Wednesday, marking the first major management upset at one of the country's largest start-ups.Housing.com's boss Rahul Yadav had been at odds with his investors for months and even resigned in April in a letter where he was highly critical of the company's investors.He later withdrew that resignation.But on Wednesday, the group, whose other investors include Sequoia Capital and Helion Venture Partners, said it

REUTERS - Indian e-retailer Infibeam filed a draft prospectus for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise 4.5 billion rupees ($70.69 million), becoming the first of India's ecommerce companies to list its shares on the domestic market.Infibeam's IPO comes at a time of intense competition in India's e-commerce sector, with high cash burn rates at industry leaders Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon.com's India unit raising concerns among investors.A top Flipkart executive told Reuters in May it was not yet ready for

People visit the Microsoft booth during the 2015 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2015. Reuters/Pichi ChuangMicrosoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Monday it will hand over its display advertising business to AOL Inc and AppNexus Inc, and sell some map-generating technology to ride-hailing app company Uber, as it slims down its money-losing online operations.The moves mean Microsoft will focus on its growing search advertising business based on its Bing search engine, and displaying maps

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, 2015. Reuters/Mike BrownWASHINGTON The failure of a SpaceX rocket over Florida on Sunday should not lead U.S. officials back to Russia to look for a rocket engine that can get military equipment into space, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain said on Monday."This mishap in no way diminishes the urgency of ridding ourselves of the Russian RD-180 rocket engine," McCain said in a statement.The United

Two freshly delivered Amazon boxes are seen on a counter in Golden, Colorado August 27, 2014.Reuters/Rick Wilking/Files CHICAGO Amazon.com Inc will launch its business loan program for small sellers later this year in eight more countries including China, where credit is becoming a key factor in competing for new vendors and grabbing market share.Until now, the e-retailer has offered the service only in the United States and Japan. Amazon Lending, founded in 2012, now plans to offer short-term working capital loans

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A Google self-driving vehicle is parked at the Computer History Museum after a presentation in Mountain View, California May 13, 2014. Reuters/Stephen Lam/FilesREUTERS - Delphi Automotive PLC on Friday offered a new description of an encounter on a California road between one of its prototype self-driving cars and a self-driving vehicle operated by Google Inc, saying "the vehicles didn't even come close to each other."The description differed from Delphi's original account on Thursday, when a company official told Reuters that a

A 3D plastic representation of the Facebook logo is seen in this illustration in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 13, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc (FB.O) released new diversity data Friday that showed the number of women and minorities has remained little changed over the past year.The number of women increased only 1 percentage point, from 31 percent to 32 percent. The number of black people, Hispanics and people of two or more races remained unchanged at 2 percent,

Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, speaks during the India Economic Summit 2014 at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi November 6, 2014. Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee/Files MUMBAI/CAPE CANAVERAL Privately owned OneWeb announced what it called the world's largest commercial rocket deal on Thursday after raising $500 million from a group of global investors to support its plans to bring broadband to billions of people via satellite.The fund-raising attracted backing from Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Europe’s Airbus Group (AIR.PA), which

The Apple logo is seen at the flagship Apple retail store in San Francisco, California April 27, 2015. Reuters/Robert GalbraithApple Inc (AAPL.O) has removed several civil war games featuring Confederate flags from its App Store, some game developers said.The flags and other symbols of the Confederacy have been at the centre of debate since a 21-year-old gunman, accused of killing nine black worshippers in last week's South Carolina church shooting, posed with the flag in photos posted online.South Carolina Governor Nikki

A Google self-driving vehicle is parked at the Computer History Museum after a presentation in Mountain View, California May 13, 2014. Reuters/Stephen LamSAN FRANCISCO Google Inc (GOOGL.O) said on Thursday it had started testing the latest prototypes of its self-driving cars on Mountain View, California roads, with safety drivers aboard.The prototypes will join Google's Lexus cars, which use the same self-driving software, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. (bit.ly/1GKVqur). Google's self-driving Lexus RX450h sport utility vehicles have been

A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich April16, 2015. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann BRUSSELS Getty Images [GETTY.UL] has become the latest company to take its grievances with Google (GOOGL.O) to EU antitrust regulators as it accused the world's most popular Internet search engine of favouring its own images service at the expense of rivals.The complaint comes as the European Commission waits for Google to respond to charges of abusing its market power in a dozen EU countries since 2007

A BlackBerry Passport smartphone is shown at its official launching event in Toronto, September 24, 2014. Reuters/Aaron Harris/Files WATERLOO, Ontario BlackBerry (BB.TO) shares fell on Tuesday as doubts surfaced about the sustainability of the sharp growth the former smartphone pioneer reported in crucial software revenues, an area BlackBerry's CEO said he will augment via acquisitions.The company's shares were down 3.5 percent in afternoon trading. They had risen 8 percent before the market opened after BlackBerry reported first-quarter results that showed a

A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich April16, 2015. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann/Files SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc launched a free version of its music streaming service on Tuesday, as it sought to upstage the debut of Apple Inc's rival service next week.Google Play Music has offered a $9.99 per month subscription service for two years but Tuesday's launch is the first free version of the streaming service. It is available online and will be available on Android and iOS

WASHINGTONSurging investment by Chinese companies in U.S. research labs is yielding a fast-growing trove of patents, part of a push to mine America for ideas to help China shift from being the world's factory floor to a driver of innovation.Largely absent from American research hubs a decade ago, Chinese firms including Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp are now using U.S. researchers to create patents ranging from new software to internet infrastructure, according to an analysis of Thomson Reuters' global

A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in Singapore in this January 2, 2014 photo illustration. Reuters/Edgar Su/Files SINGAPORE Security researchers have many names for the hacking group that is one of the suspects for the cyberattack on the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management: PinkPanther, KungFu Kittens, Group 72 and, most famously, Deep Panda.     But to Jared Myers and colleagues at cybersecurity company RSA, it is called Shell Crew, and

Guards stand near an entrance to Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, May 18, 2015. Reuters/John Ruwitch/FilesBEIJING China will increase support for cross-border e-commerce as the world's second-largest economy shifts from manufacturing to higher-value services, the government said.China's e-commerce industry has been booming in recent years, with companies like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and JD.com Inc benefiting from a rising middle class with more disposable income.The government released policy guidelines on Saturday that include tax policies aimed at boosting domestic