Early investors in Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] wrote to the ride-hailing company on Thursday to criticize it for failing to end a toxic culture of harassment.
Mitch and Freada Kapor publicly rebuked the company after former Uber emp…
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's display panel subsidiary has received a license to invest another $2.5 billion in Vietnam to boost capacity, Vietnam's State Television (VTV)reported.
The extra funding will boost Samsung Display's total inv…
Seeking to escape a cycle of falling prices and tight regulation, big telecom operators from Vimpelcom (VIP.O) to Telefonica (TEF.MC) are set to reinvent themselves as internet players to escape the industry's straight-jacket of low growth…
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit sued Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] and its autonomous trucking subsidiary Otto on Thursday over allegations of theft of its confidential and proprietary sensor technology.
Waymo accused…
Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites.
The technology, called Perspective, will review com…
AirMap, a start-up which has become the world's top supplier of air traffic management software for drones, is raising $26 million in new financing from a group of industry investors led by the venture capital investment arm of Microsoft.
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Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Wednesday its mass-market Model 3 sedan was on track for volume production by September, encouraging investors who see the electric vehicle as the avenue to profitability for the young company.
But the carmake…
Its new strategy emphasizes quality over quantity, but some say the bell may already have sounded for the embattled phone maker.
It's no secret: The last few years have been rough for HTC.
After paving the way for Android by making …
When Apple Inc (AAPL.O) launches its much-anticipated 10th anniversary iPhone this fall, it will offer an unwitting lesson in how much the smartphone industry it pioneered has matured.
The new iPhone is expected to include new features …
"Never read below the line" - that has become sensible advice for anyone tempted to look at online comments.
The depressingly toxic nature of internet conversations is of increasing concern to many publishers. But now Google thinks it m…
Unlike previous years, when Ghana has had winners in the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, this year, no winners at the continental final held in Lagos, Nigeria.
Competing with the students from other African countries was Emmanuel Gyekye Att…
Chinese bicycle-sharing startup Mobike said on Monday it has raised funding in a new round led by Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings [TEM.UL] and hedge fund Hillhouse Capital, bringing its total new funding in 2017 to more than $300…
YouTube is to scrap "unskippable" 30-second advertisements on the video-streaming service, from 2018.
Google confirmed the plan to the BBC's Newsround programme, saying it wanted to focus on "formats that work well for both users and ad…
Snap - the company behind Snapchat - has put its video-recording sunglasses on sale online in the US.
The Spectacles glasses were previously available only from pop-up vending machines in US cities.
The rollout comes ahead of Snap's …
A landmark race between two driverless electric cars has ended badly for one of the contestants.
The unfortunate Devbot vehicle crashed out of the Roborace competition after misjudging a corner while travelling at high speed.
The inc…
If your phone, laptop or any other electronic swells, hisses or erupts into flames, you'll know what to do -- and what to avoid.
If there's one thing we learned from Samsung's battery debacle, it's that you can never be too prepared to …
Accenture Plc said on Friday it would create 15,000 "highly skilled" new jobs in the United States, as IT services firms brace for a more protectionist U.S. technology visa program under President Donald Trump.
The company, which is dom…
You'll be able to get back on Facebook as soon as possible.
India is getting more digital by the month.
To make international travel easier, tourists will now be given SIM cards upon arriving in India. The cards will be loaded with 5…
VR headset developer Valve is "comfortable" with the idea that the technology could turn out to be a complete failure.
Gabe Newell, head of the game studio, made the statement in an interview with news site Polygon.
Valve is co-devel…
An official watchdog in Germany has told parents to destroy a talking doll called Cayla because its smart technology can reveal personal data.
The warning was issued by the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), which oversees tele…
"The next time you plan to cross a border, leave your phone at home."
That is the rather startling advice in a blogpost that is being widely shared right now.
Its author, Quincy Larson, is a software engineer, who has previously writ…
Microsoft's own-brand laptops are the latest tech products to face price rises in the UK.
The firm has added between £150 and £400 to the cost of Surface Books sold via its website.
The company had already increased the cost of its b…
Pavement lights have been installed at a pedestrian crossing in a Netherlands town to help smartphone users cross the road safely.
The light strips are designed to catch the eye of people looking down at their device, and change colour …
Twitter has reversed one of the changes it made to tackle bullying on the platform, just two hours after rolling it out.
The social network said it would no longer notify members who had been added to lists by other users.
But it was…
A drone that can carry people will begin "regular operations" in Dubai from July, the head of the city's Roads and Transportation Agency has announced at the World Government Summit.
The Chinese model eHang 184 has already had test flig…
Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp warned on Tuesday that penalties it expects to incur for allegedly breaking U.S. sanctions against Iran could impact its results.
In March, the U.S. government hit ZTE with some of the toughest-e…
The National Basketball Association has teamed up with video game publisher Take-Two Interactive to create an e-sports league in the US.
It represents one of the biggest tie-ups between video gaming and a major sports league.
Eventua…
For better or for worse.
This famous phrase describes our committed relationship with technology.
We go through bad times. A website won't load, an app keeps crashing. But we stay together, because in each other we see the future.
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The first African winner in Google's annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his cousins' house in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, because the government has cut off his hometown from the internet.
As…
Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia (NOKIA.HE) said on Thursday it is seeking to buy local company Comptel (CTL1V.HE) for 347 million euros ($370 million), as mobile operators increasingly rely on software to make their networks more in…
Snap Inc, owner of the popular Snapchat app, said it expected to spend $1 billion over the next five years to use Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) cloud services, in addition to the $2 billion cloud contract it already has with Google (GOOGL.O).
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Snap Inc's Snapchat lags far behind rival social media outlets Facebook Inc, Instagram and Twitter Inc in reaching older users, but the soon-to-be public company has been growing that crucial audience, analysis by MoffettNathanson of a reg…
Two of China's three largest bitcoin exchanges said they were taking measures to stop withdrawals of the cryptocurrency from their platforms, as capital outflows prompt the Chinese central bank to step up its scrutiny of the industry.
O…
A data breach at retailer Sports Direct last year was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office but not to staff whose data may have been compromised, according to reports.
The ICO confirmed to the BBC that it was "aware of an i…
Dubai, one of the world’s largest trading hubs, has linked up with IBM to launch a scheme using blockchain computing technology to process transactions and keep track of goods being shipped, IBM said on Tuesday.
The initiative will prov…
Giant Internet firms Facebook and Google joined forces with news organizations on Monday to launch new fact-checking tools designed to root out "fake news" stories in France ahead of the country's presidential election.
Social networks …
TV maker Vizio has agreed to pay out $2.2m in order to settle allegations it unlawfully collected viewing data on its customers.
The US Federal Trade Commission said the company’s smart TV technology had captured data on what was being …
Syrian refugee Anas Modamani is suing Facebook after a selfie he took with Chancellor Angela Merkel was used in fake news stories.
A court in Wurzburg, Germany, heard opening remarks from lawyers representing both sides.
Mr Modamani'…
Samsung Group said it will disband its corporate strategy office after a special prosecution probe ends, setting a timeline on a pledge to wind up a power center that has been criticized for its role in South Korea's graft scandal.
The …
Facebook is partnering with public sector agencies and non-governmental organisations from across Africa under the rallying call “Be the change: unite for a better Internet”
Today is Safer Internet Day (SID) (www.SaferInternetDay.org) a…
BT (BT.L) has become the first major telecoms company to back Google (GOOGL.O) in a battle with EU regulators, defending the "stability and compatibility" of the Android operating system, which is in the sights of anti-trust regulators.
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Thirty more US technology firms have signed a brief opposing President Trump's immigration ban, bringing the total number involved to 127.
The new signatories include Tesla, Adobe, HP and Evernote.
They join 97 others who have filed …
The inventors of digital cameras have won the highest international engineering prize.
This year's £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize recognises the development of the technologies that turn light into digital signals.
The Royal Academy of En…
The number of human interventions in journeys made by driverless cars from Google company Waymo in California more than halved in 2016.
There were only 124 "disengagement" incidents last year, where a driver had to take control of a tes…
Staff at social media company Twitter have donated more than $1m (£790,000) to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU has pledged to fight President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majorit…
Huawei, in collaboration with MTN Ghana, on Wednesday unveiled its latest flagship phone, the ‘Mate 9’ in Accra. The new smartphone has a flat 5.9 inch full HD display and runs on the Kirin 960 processor with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage whic…
Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world's best-selling carmaker, the first time the German company has held the position.
Japan's Toyota, which had topped sales for the past four years, sold 10.175 million vehicles globally …
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm in China seeking 1bn yuan (£115m) in damages, claiming the chip maker has abused its market position.
Apple has also filed a second case alleging Qualcomm had broken the terms of a deal coverin…
U.S. software firm Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will continue to invest over $1 billion annually on cyber security research and development in the coming years, a senior executive said.
This amount does not include acquisitions Microsoft may…
Sky is to offer a complete subscription television package without a satellite dish for the first time.
From 2018, people who cannot have a dish installed will be able to receive Sky over the internet instead.
The company said the mo…
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