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Google Offers Concessions on Eve of New EU Antitrust Rebuke

5 hours ago

Google Stadia service aims to stream games from cloud -- Stadia that lets players stream videogames from the cloud without needing pricey hardware, and could change the way people buy and play games.

5 hours ago

Former AOL boss getting more than $60M as he exits Verizon -- Most of Armstrong's compensation for 2018 and 2019 comes from a so-called founders equity award he was granted when Verizon bought AOL.

9 hours ago

How artificial intelligence is making conference calls easier -- Cisco update will make Webex system more aware of who's using it — and help them.

11 hours ago

Instagram encroaches on Amazon with new shopping feature -- The move is an effort to capitalize on Instagram's popularity among fashion and consumer-goods companies, who have showcased their products on the platform for years.

12 hours ago

U.S. Chip Makers Fear Trap in a Trade Deal With China

1 day ago

Will Project Stream turn Google into the Netflix of gaming? -- Google set to unveil a system that will allow a web browser or TV to be used instead of a console to play video games

1 day ago

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li on building benevolent machines -- The goal, says Li, is to make intelligent machines "more human-centered and benevolent. And helping us, humans, solve some of the greatest problems."

1 day ago

Tencent Faces Potential Questions Over Videogames

1 day ago

Why video of New Zealand massacre can't be stamped out -- The video was reposted on mainstream sites, fringe destinations with looser restrictions and in the web's darkest corners only accessible with special software, highlighting a stark reality in the era of live online broadcasting: These videos can't be cut off.

1 day ago

Future of Sports Is Interactive, Immersive and Intense

2 days ago

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Scramble to Remove Video of New Zealand Mosque Shooting -- New Zealand police said the footage was "extremely distressing" and urged people not to circulate it.

1 day ago

It's Hard to Spot the Terrorists Among the Trolls

4 days ago

Apple Defends App Store Against Spotify's Claims

4 days ago

Amazon Tests Pop-Up Feature Touting Its Cheaper Products

4 days ago

China investment in U.S. startups keeps flowing despite new rules -- Total dollars invested by Chinese firms in startups has remained stable through February, after a record $3.3 billion in 2018.

4 days ago

Amazon's Alexa has 80,000 apps, but no 'killer app' -- Amazon counts some 80,000 "skills" — its name for apps — in its marketplace, but nothing has truly become a runaway hit, as Echo owners still use it mostly for simple tasks.

4 days ago

Facebook, Google, Apple Hit by Outages -- A Facebook status page for developers listed the outage as lasting 11 hours early Thursday on the East Coast, making it one of the longer disruptions of recent years.

4 days ago

Two top Facebook executives leaving company -- Facebook engineer Chris Cox, and WhatsApp unit head Chris Daniels both stepped down Thursday.

4 days ago

Oracle's revenue declines as it struggles to catch up in the Cloud -- The sluggish performance came even as corporate-technology rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. have posted double-digit gains in revenue in recent weeks.

4 days ago

Aerospace Upstart Changes How Planes Are Tracked

5 days ago

Canada moves to regulate crypto trading amid Quadriga scandal -- Regulators to create rules for platforms such as Quadriga, an exchange that lost $260 million when its founder Gerald Cotten died taking the passwords with him

5 days ago

We Were Promised Space Colonies. What Went Wrong?

5 days ago

India's newest internet users are addicted to these apps from China -- Chinese content-sharing apps such as Bigo Inc.'s Like and Bigo Live, along with Bytedance Ltd.'s Helo and TikTok, are taking off in this country of 1.3 billion.

5 days ago

Oracle's cloud growth tempers expectations -- As of Wednesday, analysts surveyed by Refinitiv expected Oracle to report profit, adjusted for items such as acquisition accounting, of 84 cents a share for the quarter that ended in February.

5 days ago

Alphabet looks to NYC Hudson Yards bond model for Toronto waterfront -- Sidewalk Labs explores financing options that could include tax-revenue backed bonds to help develop its futuristic urban hub along Toronto's waterfront

5 days ago

China Gains on U.S. in Highly Cited AI Research

6 days ago

ZTE's State Owner to Cut Its Stake

6 days ago

Spotify files EU antitrust complaint over Apple's app store -- Spotify's complaint alleges that Apple in recent years has abused its control over which apps appear in its App Store.

6 days ago

Elon Musk set to unveil a new Tesla for the masses -- The billionaire entrepreneur is expected Thursday night to unveil the Model Y compact sport-utility vehicle in front of fans and customers near Los Angeles.

6 days ago

How Much Does 5G Cost? Verizon Says $10 Extra Per Month

6 days ago

iPhone trends going 'from bad to worse,' Longbow Research says -- According to data compiled by Bloomberg, almost 20 per cent of Apple's fiscal 2018 revenue was derived from China, and the iPhone accounted for 62 per cent of revenue.

6 days ago

BlackBerry deepens ties to U.S. government with new subsidiary -- BlackBerry Government Solutions will operate separate from its parent as a U.S.-domiciled company that will comply with U.S. national security requirements.

7 days ago

Google approved $45 million exit package for executive accused of misconduct -- According to a shareholder lawsuit, Google agreed to pay Amit Singhal, a senior vice president who ran Google's search operations, as much as $45 million when he resigned from the company in 2016 after being accused of groping a subordinate.

7 days ago

Why I put my dog's photo on social media, but not my son's -- There is no training for protecting your child's digital identity from online predators and data-hungry companies alike.

7 days ago

Tesla's Musk rebuts SEC's motion to hold him in contempt -- Musk told a federal judge he didn't violate a fraud settlement that restricted his social-media communications and suggested the government is trying to muzzle him.

7 days ago

Elon Musk defends Tesla tweets that SEC says violated court order -- The billionaire Tesla chief executive officer cited his constitutional right to free speech in his defence to the SEC claims on Monday in Manhattan federal court, meeting a deadline set by the judge.

8 days ago

Google agreed to pay $135 million to two executives accused of sexual harassment -- The public disclosure of the payments came in a civil shareholder lawsuit filed in California Superior Court that alleges Google schemed to cover up persistent sexual harassment and discrimination.

7 days ago

Tesla, in Reversal, to Keep More Stores Open -- The company said it had already closed 10% of its shops following last month's announcement that it would shutter many of its stores. However, the company said Monday it would reopen a few high-visibility locations though with a smaller number of employees.

8 days ago

U.S. Hedge Fund to Offer Its Own Slate of Directors for Toshiba

8 days ago

Dealerships are using car shares as a tool to boost sales of new vehicles -- About 60 per cent of owners who put their car on car-sharing startup Turo use the proceeds to pay down a car loan.

8 days ago

Physical retail stores are moving toward more data collection -- Expect more stores to incorporate the kind of digital data collection that has powered the online world.

8 days ago

Username and password hell: why the Internet can't keep you logged in -- The internet has never had a simple, universal system for figuring out who we are. As a result, we're stuck with separate usernames and passwords for every site and app we use and perpetually re-entering them to prove we're still ourselves.

8 days ago

Care.com Puts Onus on Families to Check Caregivers' Backgrounds---With Sometimes Tragic Outcomes

11 days ago

Charts Show Why Facebook May Be Changing

11 days ago

Warren unveils plan to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google -- White House wannabe outlines the most ambitious and aggressive plan targeting the tech industry by any Democratic presidential candidate

11 days ago

Beijing applauds Huawei for 'refusing to be victimized like a silent lamb' -- At a news conference Friday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi applauded Huawei and its chief financial officer for filing lawsuits.

11 days ago

Creeped out by Facebook? Here are the settings to check -- Facebook Inc. continues to surprise us with how it's using our information and we're owed clearer explanations and more ways to opt out. While we wait, there are settings to mitigate the spying.

13 days ago

When Mark Zuckerberg said privacy, he didn't mean privacy from Facebook -- What the Facebook chief executive's manifesto really promises is a more tightly integrated version of Facebook's various apps and services.

12 days ago

Facebook's encryption plans could limit its ability to police harmful content -- Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook's pivot toward encrypted messaging means that even the company will not be able to read the contents of the messages people send in its apps.

12 days ago

Tesla swerves on its retail strategy -- The company is shuttering most of its retail stores in a bid to cut costs.

12 days ago

Auto industry disruption is here with shakeup starting in Geneva -- While the shift sweeping the industry has so far been abstract, the veil started to come off this week at the Geneva car show. Discussions among executives was dominated by collaboration and consolidation rather than new models.

12 days ago

Facebook shift nods to Chinese super-app WeChat -- After Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post that Facebook sees its future in encrypted messaging, payments and other services, the similarities were striking to many Chinese.

12 days ago

World's last Blockbuster has no plans to close. Here's why it's still open -- Store in small city of Bend, Oregon located in a region that often does not have easy access to the high-speed internet necessary for content streaming

12 days ago

'Alexa, can you be empathetic, all-knowing and funny?' -- Amazon's Alexa's abilities continue to grow, thanks to tens of thousands of "skills," or voice apps, that play media, control connected devices and more.

12 days ago

Telecom Giant's Lawsuit Marks Shift to War Footing

12 days ago

SoftBank's Next Big Bet: Latin American Tech

12 days ago

Facebook Plans New Emphasis on Private Communications

12 days ago

Amazon to Shut Its U.S. Pop-Up Stores Amid Strategy Shift

12 days ago

Videogame experience plays well on resumes -- Employers across a range of industries are embracing resumes that include backgrounds in making or playing videogames.

12 days ago

Snap Layoffs Led to Payouts to Ousted Female Employees

13 days ago

Silicon Valley hit with new digital tax in France -- The measure will apply a 3% tax on French-source revenue that companies like Google or Amazon reap from specific services like targeted advertising or running a digital marketplace.

13 days ago

Uber Partner Picks Up $1.5 Billion From SoftBank

13 days ago

Nintendo to Smartphone Gamers: Don't Spend Too Much on Us

13 days ago

Apple doesn't have a 5G iphone yet and it may already have trouble sourcing components -- Apple is reportedly "in a difficult position" given its reliance on Intel's modem products, and it has four options to deal with the situation, "none of which is ideal."

13 days ago

Huawei Fails to Impress EU Officials With New Cybersecurity Center

14 days ago

Surfing, Schools and Jets: WeWork's Bets Follow CEO's Passions

14 days ago

Salesforce Raises Its Full-Year Sales Outlook as Profit Rises

15 days ago

VW straddles old and new with electric buggy, Passat face-off -- Volkswagen plans to roll out 50 battery-only models by 2025 and is in talks about sharing the underpinnings with other manufacturers to help spread the costs of its transition away from combustion vehicles.

15 days ago

Amazon's hard bargain extends far beyond New York -- Amazon often plays politics with a distinctive message: Give us what we want, or we'll leave and take our jobs elsewhere.

15 days ago

How to avoid Fortnite V-bucks scams and cyber-criminal schemes -- A massive player audience of more than 200 million — across multiple platforms including smartphones, computers, and game systems such as PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and most recently, Nintendo Switch — and its young demographic makes Fortnite a target for criminals.

15 days ago

Facebook sues Chinese companies for creating fake accounts -- Facebook and Instagram sued four China-based companies and three people for creating and selling fake online accounts, likes and followers.

15 days ago

Smartphone makers gamble that they know when to fold 'em -- The companies are hoping the first complete design overhaul of the smartphone since its birth more than a decade ago will persuade consumers to upgrade and pay more for extra screen real estate.

15 days ago

Galaxy S10 review: Samsung finally gets everything right

16 days ago

Early 5G looks more like an extension of 4G -- While the first 5G networks in the United States will arrive during 2019, the full potential of the technology will only be exploited until it finds its way into smart factories and power grids.

16 days ago

Help, We're Drowning in Recycling! Cue the 'Internet of Trash'

17 days ago

Lyft tries to wow IPO investors -- Lyft's filing for an initial public offering has raised questions about the financial health of the tech companies that are planning IPOs in 2019, since its filing showed that the ride-hailing company lost almost $1 billion (U.S.) last year.

16 days ago

EBay Reaches Agreements With Activist Investor Affiliates

18 days ago

Tesla Shifts to Online Sales Model

19 days ago

SpaceX Prepares Capsule for Humans

19 days ago

Dell Technologies Quarterly Results Beat Projects

17 days ago

New York requests documents from Facebook, apps on data sharing -- The state's Department of Financial Services sent a series of letters seeking information and documents from Facebook and the developers behind 11 other apps.

19 days ago

Amazon's Project Zero Aims to Help Brands Target Scammers

19 days ago

Green Power: The Quest to Harness Energy From Leaves

19 days ago

Why it still feels like Facebook is tracking you, even after all the privacy measures -- The network has streamlined its privacy settings, shared more details about how data is used and highlighted how its ad controls work.

19 days ago

Facebook faces 10 privacy probes in Ireland as global scrutiny intensifies -- ome of the investigations, disclosed as part of the Irish regulator's annual report Thursday, focus on whether the company is legally gathering and processing individuals' data.

19 days ago

Daimler, BMW Team Up on Self-Driving Car Technology

19 days ago

RBC tells bankers to avoid China travel amid Huawei conflict -- The Toronto-based lender has asked its workers, especially those based in Canada, to skip business trips to China, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

19 days ago

HP Sales Rise, but Fall Short of Estimates

20 days ago

TikTok Settles With FTC Over Data Collection From Children

20 days ago

FedEx is testing a little robot that will deliver your packages -- The courier is ready to begin testing a 1.27 metre tall delivery robot in Memphis, Tenn., and two other cities as early as this summer.

20 days ago

How 5G will change so much more than your phone -- The technology could be used for driverless cars that receive detailed information about road conditions in real time, sports broadcasts that let viewers see the game from a dizzying number of angles, or wearable devices that monitor a patient's physical condition and beam the information to doctors.

20 days ago

Where China Dominates in 5G Technology

20 days ago

How the U.S. Can Catch Up in the 5G Race

20 days ago

How Much 5G Could Cost Users

20 days ago

U.S. Takes Huawei Fight Directly to Telecom Industry -- The company has forcefully denied that it poses a national security threat and has said it would never conduct cyber espionage on behalf of any government.

20 days ago

5G technology expands, so do concerns over privacy -- The technology will allow for the possibility of more-precise location tracking, as well as the opportunity to collect vast amounts of additional personal data.

20 days ago

Five Small 5G-Related Companies That Investors Should Watch

19 days ago

New York City Tries to Even Out Access to Wireless Networks

20 days ago

The Cybersecurity 202: Your phone could soon recognize you based on how you move or walk -- The Pentagon's in the final phase of testing technology that will reduce smartphone users' reliance on passwords and verification codes.

21 days ago

Musk faces U.S. contempt claim for violating accord with SEC -- Telsa Inc. has relied on its CEO not just for technology leadership but for its bold, anti-establishment image. But as Elon Musk's latest tiff with regulators shows, the cult of personality has also had a downside for the carmaker.

21 days ago

What to Expect From 5G Phones---and When

21 days ago

U.S. government suffers setback in effort to ban Huawei's 5G technology -- The U.S. argues Huawei is a security risk as it could let the Chinese government snoop on internet users worldwide. Huawei rejects the claim and says it is part of the United States' broader efforts to stifle China's economic and technological ascent.

21 days ago

Apple, Facebook fight international encryption battle -- Governments want access to user data to solve crimes and track potential threats but Silicon Valley companies fear access could be misused by spies and hackers

21 days ago

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi Joins Amazon's Board

22 days ago

Facebook grappling with employee anger over moderator conditions -- Facebook's approximately 15,000 content reviewers mostly work not for Facebook itself but for staffing firms like Accenture and Cognizant. A group of content reviewers at an Accenture facility in Austin complained in February about not being allowed to leave the building for breaks or answer personal phone calls at work.

22 days ago

US-China battle over Huawei comes to head at tech show -- The United States government dispatched a big delegation to press its case with telecom executives and government officials that they should not use Huawei as a supplier over national security concerns.

22 days ago

Eleven popular apps that shared data with Facebook -- These eleven popular apps shared sensitive user information with Facebook, according to testing by the Wall Street Journal.

22 days ago

Popular apps cease sharing data with Facebook -- Health and fitness apps including Flo Health Inc.'s Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker and Azumio Inc.'s Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor issued updates to cut off transmission of sensitive data to Facebook, a new round of testing showed Sunday.

22 days ago

Huawei's foldable smartphone raises the bar—and price tag -- The new Huawei Mate X pushes smartphone pricing to new heights. Richard Yu, the head of Huawei's consumer device business, said the handset will be priced at about $2,600.

22 days ago

Google is the best — and the worst — wireless carrier -- Google Fi is changing wireless carrier services by doing things like only charging customers for the data they use, but it might not be worth switching to just yet.

22 days ago

Microsoft's Hype Strategy for HoloLens Is to Avoid It

23 days ago

Nokia Positions Itself as More Secure Than Rival Huawei

22 days ago

India Increases Pressure on Amazon and Walmart

23 days ago

230 MILLION REASONS WHY 'PODCASTING'S TIME HAS COME' -- Swedish streaming giant Spotify paying around $230 million (U.S.) for Gimlet Media, the producer of such audio dramas as Homecoming and the documentary series Crimetown, is a proof that podcasting is becoming big business.

23 days ago

'Apex Legends' Is EA's Move to Out-Fortnite 'Fortnite'

24 days ago

On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay

24 days ago

Cuomo Calls for Probe Into Facebook's Collection of Sensitive Data from Apps

25 days ago

Evan Williams, Twitter Co-Founder, to Leave Board

25 days ago

Facebook to Pull Controversial Onavo App

25 days ago

Users give apps sensitive personal information. Then they tell Facebook.

25 days ago

U.S.-Huawei fight to take center stage at mobile gathering -- American diplomats have been pressing allied governments, as well as their countries' wireless and internet providers, to dump the Chinese company.

25 days ago

Baidu Forecasts Weaker Growth as Chinese Economy Slows

25 days ago

Your smart TV is watching you . . . and making extra money doing it -- Once "smart TVs" became popular, manufacturers began treating the set as a "glass window" to our viewing habits and reporting them to marketers for a fee.

25 days ago

YouTube unleashed a conspiracy theory boom. Can it be contained? -- Shane Dawson's hit conspiracy series arrived at a particularly awkward moment for YouTube, which has been reckoning with the vast troves of misinformation and extreme content on its platform.

25 days ago

Nintendo of America President Is Retiring

26 days ago

Advertisers boycott YouTube after pedophiles swarm comments on videos of children -- Nestlé, Epic Games are among advertisers who acted after a YouTube user posted a video this week that also pointed out the website's recommendation system also guided predators to other similar videos of minors.

26 days ago

Trump says he wants 5G and 6G technology — but what is 6G? -- 6G, the data network to likely follow 5G, is currently just theoretical concept, and is a long way from being deployed in the real world.

26 days ago

India isn't buying U.S. campaign against Huawei

26 days ago

The Life Story of Your Supermarket Chicken: Food Tracking Goes High-Tech

26 days ago

New Samsung phone folds in half, and costs nearly $2,000 (U.S.) -- Samsung's new Galaxy Fold delivers on one of the industry's long-running pursuits: making a tablet-size phone with a glass display that can bend in half

26 days ago

Apple to Chinese Consumers: Buy a New iPhone for Under $30 a Month, Interest Free

26 days ago

Nestlé, McDonald's, others pull ads from YouTube

26 days ago

Samsung Galaxy S10 first look: more phones, more cameras, more money -- Samsung's newest Galaxy S10 lineup, shipping March 8, are great phones incorporating sweet tricks into the new models, the S10e, S10, S10+ and S10 5G.

27 days ago

Tesla customers want their deposits back -- Would-be electric vehicle owners grouse as refunds take months

27 days ago

Digital advertising to surpass print, TV for the first time, report says

27 days ago

Tesla Replaces Top Lawyer After Two Months

27 days ago

Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract Sought by Amazon Faces New Hurdle

1 month ago

Britain to take 'balanced view' over Huawei's involvement in 5G, high commissioner says -- Huawei, , its employees and its technology have been under the microscope since U.S. officials accused it of industrial spying at the behest of the Chinese government.

1 month ago

Apple executive shake-up readies it for life after iPhone -- Apple shakes up leadership and reorders priorities across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions to reduce company's reliance on iPhone sales

1 month ago

Why your apps can find you, but 911 can't

1 month ago

As Amazon snubs New York, it is growing in 17 other cities

1 month ago

Partisan Rift Threatens Federal Data-Privacy Law

1 month ago

A $10 accessory proves smartphones are too big

1 month ago

Why Amazon's New York u-turn is good for America's tech economy -- Amazon's abandoned plans for a Big Apple HQ may have prompted mixed reactions in New York, but for the rest of the country, it's good news

1 month ago

Investor Steve Jurvetson Talks About the Allegations That Derailed His Career

1 month ago

Atlassian founders carry the unique burden of being Australia's first tech billionaires -- As Australian politics tilt toward the right on global issues like immigration, cybersecurity and climate change, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes are emerging as new political voices, getting in Twitter spats and lobbying Parliament.

1 month ago

Uber sales growth slows further as IPO nears

1 month ago

Amazon invests in electric-car maker Rivian

1 month ago

Amazon and Google are harvesting data in your home by demanding smart-home gadget makers to share it -- Gadget makers like Logitech are raising concerns about just how much information is being shared, from whether someone is home or what they're watching on TV.

1 month ago

Amazon Cancels HQ2 Plans in New York City -- The company said in a blog post Thursday that its commitment to a new headquarters required supportive elected officials and collaboration.

1 month ago

Nvidia's Revenue Sinks 24%, but Wall Street Feared Worse

1 month ago

An agency hid Tesla crash data for nearly two years — is that any way to build trust in driverless cars? -- The episode raises questions that go far beyond whether Tesla's Autopilot is safe or not.

1 month ago

750,000 pieces of junk circle Earth. This firm wants to start clearing it -- As the satellite industry booms, a Japan-based venture is working to prevent space-debris collisions that could paralyze transport, defence and telecommunications systems.

1 month ago

The world still doesn't have enough places to plug in cars -- The global electric-vehicle fleet reached 5 million last year, according to BNEF, supported by a little more than 600,000 public charging points around the world.

1 month ago

Ant Financial to Acquire U.K.'s WorldFirst

1 month ago

Oilpatch AI keeps a wary eye on remote wells after human officials go home -- The software can be programmed to sift through video data and identify vehicles or people, checking to see if contractors showed up when they said they would and if they stayed as long as their bills indicate.

1 month ago

Amazon pulls out of planned New York City headquarters -- The agreement to lure Amazon stirred an intense debate about the use of public subsidies to entice wealthy companies, the rising cost of living in rapidly gentrifying neighbourhoods and the city's very identity.

1 month ago

Telus warns against possible Huawei ban after meeting with PM Trudeau -- Telecom provider says ban could increase the cost of its 5G deployment and that its partnership with Huawei has been "fruitful for all Canadians."

1 month ago

Nvidia Tries to Shake Off Cryptocurrency, Videogame Funk

1 month ago

Apple to sell older iPhone models again in Germany -- Apple Inc. said it would make some older iPhone models available for sale again in Germany, two months after it had removed the models because a court ruled here that the smartphone maker had infringed on a patent by Qualcomm Inc.

1 month ago

Cisco Evades Trade Fallout as Revenue, Profit Rise

1 month ago

Driverless Car Data Shows Robots Still Need Humans

1 month ago

Former Apple Lawyer Charged With Insider Trading

1 month ago

Addictive technology under investigation by senior British lawmakers -- They're examining the role "immersive and addictive technologies" have on society.

1 month ago

Google to Invest $13 Billion in U.S. Data Centers, Offices

1 month ago

Yelp review 'purge' adds to woes from investor pressure, sales -- The married duo had accumulated approximately 140 reviews that recommend their services by last October, but near the end of 2018, Yelp Inc.'s software pushed some 80 per cent of those customer reviews down to the bottom of their page.

1 month ago

Lawyer in charge of Apple's insider-trading policy accused of insider trading -- Former top lawyer Gene Daniel Levoff, who until last year was Apple's senior director of corporate law, traded on advance knowledge of revenue-and-earnings figures multiple times dating back to 2011.

1 month ago

Fyre Festival to fashion week, how do Instagram influencers make so much money? -- With brand spending on influencer marketing expected to hit $101 billion by 2020, the most successful influencers can command more than six figures for campaigns, but even those just starting out can earn a couple hundred to a few thousand dollars.

1 month ago

Huawei Night in Canada: Inside tech giant's push to burnish its brand -- As diplomatic feud deepens between Canada and China, the HNIC deal is one of many examples of how Huawei has embarked on a global marketing drive. From rugby in Australia, to free pianos in New Zealand, it's a worldwide PR blitz

1 month ago

Cisco Growth Could Feel Pressure From Tariff, Security Field

1 month ago

Activision Blizzard to Cut Staff in Broad Restructuring

1 month ago

Onex weighs sale of advanced integration technology -- Onex is working with advisers on an auction for the maker of manufacturing equipment for the aerospace industry.

1 month ago

Google Cloud's Plan to Catch Amazon and Microsoft: Sales Reps

1 month ago

Publishers chafe at Apple's terms for subscription news service -- Apple Inc.'s plan to create a subscription service for news is running into resistance from major publishers over the tech giant's proposed financial terms, according to people familiar with the situation, complicating an initiative that is part of the company's efforts to offset slowing iPhone sales.

1 month ago

Quadriga mess sparks race among lawyers for slice of lost millions -- The lawyers are contending for the right to represent some 115,000 Quadriga customers who are owed about $190 million in Bitcoin and other digital assets.

1 month ago

Apple loses ground to Huawei as China sales slump 20% -- Apple's smartphone shipments to China in the last three months of 2018 were down 20% from a year earlier.

1 month ago

Latest Funding Values Reddit at $3 Billion

1 month ago

SoftBank Invests $940 Million in Nuro for Driverless Deliveries

1 month ago

The next wave of 'unicorn' startups -- Many up-and-coming startups focus on software for specific industries like farms, banks and life sciences companies.

1 month ago

What it's like to work inside Apple's 'black site' -- Inside the building, say former workers, they came to expect the vending machines to be understocked, and to have to wait in line to use the men's bathrooms.

1 month ago

Amazon has a big advertising business. Walmart wants one too -- With about 300 million shoppers visiting its stores each month, according to Forrester Research, and millions more on its websites, Walmart draws in more people than Google, Facebook or Amazon.

1 month ago

Cows get own Tinder-style app for breeding -- Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches by viewing pictures of cattle with details of their age, location and owner. Swipe right for a moo – and a match

1 month ago

Jeff Bezos's journey from private family man to tabloid sensation -- For more than two decades, Bezos built a public persona of a low-key billionaire who did the dishes every night, had a happy home life, valued frugality and was a bit of a nerd at work. Things have changed . . .

1 month ago

Tesla is cranking out Model 3s---now it has to service them

1 month ago

It's the real world - with Google Maps layered on top

1 month ago

Fortnite-Marshmello Mashup Showcases New Avenues for Games, Music

1 month ago

Where robots will soon rule

1 month ago

The Internet, Divided Between the U.S. and China, Has Become a Battleground.

1 month ago

Amazon's India Site Restocked After Joint-Venture Stake Cut

1 month ago

Huawei says U.K. software issues will take years to fix

1 month ago

Apple to Reward Teen as It Patches FaceTime Bug

1 month ago

Twitter's Push for Healthier Discourse Lifts Revenue, Hurts User Growth

1 month ago

Amazon invests in driverless startup Aurora, valued at more than $2 billion (U.S.) -- Aurora, founded in 2017 by veterans of autonomous-vehicle development, says it is developing a mixture of software and hardware that help vehicles see and navigate the world. The company early on signed deals with auto makers Volkswagen AG and Hyundai Motor Co. to eventually install its technology in their vehicles.

1 month ago

What I Learned From the Hacker Who Spied on Me -- If you're on guard and aware that people are out there trying to trick you to let down your defenses, and you follow some basic practices, you can make it much more difficult for the bad guys to get to you.

1 month ago

Amazon Invests in Driverless Startup Aurora

1 month ago

Intel's CTO on Computers That Think Like Us

1 month ago

Peter Thiel's secretive data giant Palantir finally raking in cash -- Palantir pulled in about $880 (U.S.) million in revenue, up from about $600 million one year earlier, the people say.

1 month ago

New black boxes offer ability to send real-time data from plane crashes -- Honeywell officials and other proponents of the new technology said the devices, commonly called black boxes, promise major benefits for future plane crash investigations.

1 month ago

Facebook Told to Stop Tracking German Users' Online Life Without Consent

1 month ago