It’s Friday afternoon (it always happens on Friday afternoon) and the phone rings — there’s a breach. Your internet provider has called and malware associated with the latest botnet has been detected coming from your corporate network. The…
Thursday's drop to as low as $9,022 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange BTC=BTSP left bitcoin trading at less than half the peak price of almost $20,000 it reached in December. It slid more than 26 percent last month, in its worst mo…
Snap Inc. just launched a merchandise store. The goal isn’t to make money yet, but it proves the potential for an in-app commerce platform for other brands.
Today the company opened the Snap Store, which lives in the Snapchat app’s …
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has climbed back into the global top five vendors list as the global market shrunk annually, even if only by a fraction, for the first time in 2017, according to a leading industry trac…
(Reuters) - In its quarterly earnings report on Thursday, Apple Inc gave the first update in two years on what it calls its active installed base, the number of major products such as iPhones, iPads and Macs in use in the world. Apple said…
A children's charity has criticised the government for failing to implement proposals to make young people safer online - 10 years after they were made in a government-commissioned report.
The NSPCC says 11 of the 38 proposals were igno…
(Reuters) - Apple Inc’s hint of returning a ton of cash to shareholders was not enough to move investors who worried more about the iPhone maker’s weak outlook amid reports of production cuts for its flagship iPhone X.
Apple shares were…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday warned the financial sector that it had a responsibility to prevent speculation and the formation of trading bubbles in the cryptocurrency market.
Steinmeier tol…
Telegram's official app has been removed from Apple's App Store.
It had been removed because it had made "inappropriate content" available to users, founder Pavel Durov said.
"Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to b…
SoftBank is partnering up with messaging app Line to help develop its Line Mobile telecom service.
Line announced that it has agreed to allow SoftBank to take a 51 percent in the business via an issuance of new shares. The deal is expec…
Uber is launching a bike-sharing service next week in partnership with JUMP, a startup that recently received the first and only permit to operate dockless bike-sharing in San Francisco. JUMP’s contract with the San Francisco Municipal Tra…
The Nintendo Switch games console has outsold its predecessor, just 10 months after its launch.
Nintendo sold 7.23 million Switch consoles in the previous quarter, bringing total sales to about 14.86 million devices.
The Wii U, which…
Google says it will soon alter its Search tool to provide "diverse perspectives" where appropriate.
The change will affect the boxed text that often appears at the top of results pages - known as a Snippet - which contains a response so…
The early reactions are in and it's fair to say the critics love Black Panther, Marvel's highly-anticipated first black superhero film.
The movie stars Chadwick Boseman in the lead role along with Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Marti…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday opened a rainforest-like office space in Seattle that it hopes will spark new ideas for employees.
While cities across North America are seeking to host Seattle-based Amazon’s second headquarters, the w…
Japan’s Canon Inc said it expects operating profit to surge in 2018 to its highest level in a decade, helped by cost cuts in its copier and printer business as well as growth in new fields such as medical equipment and surveillance cameras…
BP Plc said it had invested $5 million in U.S. mobile electric vehicle charging company FreeWire, helping it provide rapid charging at its retail sites in Britain and Europe, as demand for cleaner vehicles is expected to soar.
BP joins …
More than 100 child health experts are urging Facebook to withdraw an app aimed at under-13s.
In an open letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, they call Messenger Kids an "irresponsible" attempt to encourage young children to use Fac…
Now you can customize your Snapchat Bitmoji avatar with 40 skin tones, 50 hair colors, 50 hair treatment options and more so it looks just like you no matter what you look like. Today Snapchat launches Bitmoji Deluxe, a more configurable v…
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Leading figures within the African energy scene will convene at the 10th Africa Energy Indaba, the World Energy Council's annual African meeting, to dis discuss the importance of innovation and regional integration at a time when the ene…
Self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun has shifted his gaze to the skies, as his Silicon Valley online school Udacity launches what it calls the first “nanodegree” in flying car engineering.
With companies from Airbus (AIR.PA) and Ama…
DJI has unveiled the Mavic Air drone, a successor to its top-selling Mavic Pro that is smaller, lighter and faster as well as promising more advanced obstacle-avoidance tech.
There are, however, trade-offs: it has a shorter flight time …
Nike just announced their first shoe with an all-foam sole powered by a new foam technology called React.
The shoe is called the Nike Epic React Flyknit and is a running shoe, which will release on February 22nd. The bottom is a solid p…
In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur. How did the term "fake news" evolve - and what's next in the world of disinformation?
It was mid-…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail.
The Se…
Toshiba Corp is considering an IPO of its prized memory chip business if an agreed $18 billion sale to a Bain Capital-led consortium fails to gain antitrust approval by the end of March, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
The IPO i…
Few events have jolted the urban planning crowd quite like Amazon’s process for selecting the company’s new second headquarters (dubbed HQ2). The company put up a massive carrot of 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment, and then proceed…
Nordea has forbidden all its roughly 31,000 employees from trading in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin due to high risks, it said on Monday.
The Nordic region’s biggest bank said the ban will be imposed from Feb. 28.
“The risks are s…
One day, they may yet turn against us, but for now, they’re still our allies: A drone rescued two teenage swimmers in distress off the coast of New South Wales in Australia, according to a new report. The drone spotted two teenagers in tro…
European automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen plans to offer electric and hybrid electric powertrain options for all of its vehicles by 2025, according to CEO Carlos Tavares. The chief executive also said that PSA will seek to re-enter the U.S. m…
In the latest of a recent spate of bugs plaguing Google’s most recent hardware offerings, a number of Home and Chromecast users have been reporting issues around their devices’ Wi-Fi connectivity this week.
Google has since acknowledged…
Shares in International Business Machines rose nearly 2 percent on Wednesday, helped by a double-notch upgrade for the company from Barclays ahead of fourth-quarter results on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: The logo for IBM is …
Standard Chartered said on Wednesday it had established a business unit to invest in financial technology and promote innovation.
Dubbed SC Ventures, it will include internal consultants to help the rest of the group solve problems with…
Want a way to workout and earn some coin? Sweatcoin has risen to the top of the App Store for helping folks get something more than just a glow for taking those daily steps.
The startup says it has accumulated more than 5 million users …
A month after announcing plans to open its first AI lab in China, Google is expanding again through a move into Shenzhen.
The U.S. tech giant has opened an office in the Chinese city, which borders Hong Kong and known for being a global…
Vodafone Ghana has introduced a new mobile application – MyVodafoneApp – which is expected to redefine the way it engages with customers this new year.
The application, available on all smartphone download stores, was developed to offer…
Ford Motor Co’s plan to double its electrified vehicle spending is part of an investment tsunami in batteries and electric cars by global automakers that now totals $90 billion and is still growing, a Reuters analysis shows.
That money …
Uber [UBER.UL] said on Tuesday its British drivers will have to take a six-hour break after they have accepted and made trips with passengers totaling 10 hours as the taxi app responds to criticism over excessive working hours.
Uber sai…
WhatsApp appears to be testing a new feature aimed at trying to limit the spread of chain letter style spam messages and tackle viral fakes spreading on its platform.
Two WhatsApp blog sites, Whatsappen.nl and WABetaInfo, report spottin…
Informal transactions through Facebook groups are threatening the success of e-commerce giants in Africa according to a recent straw poll on the impact of the Black Friday sale promotion on this fledgling industry.
According to our Blac…
Morocco is more synonymous with souks than start-ups. But within the local and international business community, that perception is rapidly changing.
Alongside the Marrakesh race of the FIA Formula-E Championship entrepreneurs gat…
Actor Mark Wahlberg has donated $1.5m (£1m) to the Time's Up legal defence fund.
The move comes after it emerged that he was paid the sum to reshoot scenes for the film All The Money in the World.
Wahlberg's co-star Michelle Williams…
German used-car dealing platform Auto1 said a 460 million euro ($561 million) financial infusion from Japan’s Softbank meant it was under no pressure to launch an initial public offering to fund its pan-European growth plans.
Softbank, …
After a blistering year-and-a-half long surge, a sudden drop in some memory prices, followed by Samsung Electronics Co’s disappointing profit estimate, is causing jitters among investors who had bet the chip boom would last at least anothe…
Chinese authorities will also target individuals and companies that provide market-making, settlement and clearing services for centralized trading, Bloomberg reported.
Last year, Chinese regulators banned initial coin offerings, shut d…
It hasn’t been a fun time to be Intel. Last week the company revealed two chip vulnerabilities that have come to be known as Spectre and Meltdown and have been rocking the entire chip industry ever since (not just Intel). This week the com…
Stephanie McMahon is a more hands-on executive than most. As well as being World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) chief brand officer, she has been a regular fixture inside the ring since her on-screen debut in 1999.
As a wrestler, she h…
Microsoft-owned VoIP and messaging platform Skype has long been criticized for lacking end-to-end encryption. Which means Skype communications are not protected by a zero access architecture — and the company could be leaned on to provide …
Confusingly jamming Stories in between private messages has sparked backlash amongst the first users of Snapchat’s sweeping redesign. In the few countries including the U.K., Australia, and Canada where the redesign is widely available, 83…