7 years ago040(Reuters) - Trump International Hotels Management LLC said late on Tuesday a data breach at a service provider compromised card payment details at 14 of its properties.
The compromised information included payment card numbers and card security codes for some of the hotel chain's reservations processed through service provider Sabre...
7 years ago040Facebook Inc said on Tuesday that it was testing advertising on its Messenger app globally as the world's largest social media company looks to further monetize its popular chat service.
Ads will be displayed on the home tab of the Messenger app, Facebook said, adding that users clicking on the ads will either be taken to the...
7 years ago069WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Tuesday announced an initiative to bring high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans through unused television airwaves in a long-term bet for user growth.
The Redmond, Washington, technology company proposed using spectrum typically reserved for TV stations to broadcast...
7 years ago098NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc's (BLK.N) global chief investment strategist on Tuesday suggested that loose monetary policy may have aided speculation in digital currencies like bitcoin, but he said the risk to the broader financial system appears limited.
The strategist, Richard Turnill, said it might be possible to view price...
7 years ago01433Silicon Valley startup Stripe has partnered with digital payment providers Alipay and WeChat Pay to enable merchants using its platform globally to accept payments from hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers.
Starting Sunday, the partnerships will allow online merchants using Stripe to integrate the ability for Chinese users to pay...
7 years ago057Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), in its latest step to curb abusive behavior on its platform, rolled out new features on Monday to help users disable notifications from accounts that they want to avoid.
The microblogging website said its "advanced filter settings" will now have options for users to mute notifications from accounts that they do...
7 years ago073German firms have lost millions of euros to organized crime in a scam dubbed "CEO Fraud" that uses faked memos from top executives to entice accounting personnel to transfer funds, Germany's federal cyber agency said on Monday.
The BSI agency said officials investigating the new scam had secured a list of 5,000 potential targets, and...
7 years ago068A technical glitch shut down India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) for five hours on Monday, dealing the country's biggest stock market an embarrassing blow ahead of its plans to list and leading to a surge in volumes on a rival bourse.
Trading resumed fully later on Monday, with quotes for individual stocks finally restored with just...
7 years ago040As the $18 billion sale of Toshiba Corp's memory chip unit to a government-approved consortium falters, some bankers and potential investors are pressing the board to seriously consider alternatives, people with direct knowledge of the sale process said - including picking a new buyer.
Those people say Toshiba's leadership is sticking...
7 years ago043Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) Chief Executive Charlie Ergen and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) head Jeff Bezos have discussed a partnership to enter the wireless business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Amazon could help bankroll a network Dish is building focused on the "Internet of Things", and could...
7 years ago072Germany's BSI federal cyber agency said on Friday that the threat posed to German firms by recent cyber attacks launched via a Ukrainian auditing software was greater than expected, and some German firms had seen production halted for over a week.
Analyses by computer experts showed that waves of attacks had been launched via software...
7 years ago054Chinese bike-sharing start-up Ofo said on Thursday it has raised more than $700 million in its latest funding round that was led by Alibaba Group and two others, in the largest such fund-raising in the business that has drawn keen investor interest.
Ofo said in a statement that besides Alibaba, the series E funding was led by Hony...
7 years ago084Taiwan plans to spend T$1 billion ($32.73 million) every year over a period of five years on artificial intelligence research centers, the government said, in a move that will help its technology firms enter the fledgling sector.
"The importance of AI for Taiwan is apparent through its semiconductor companies. Right now, they have an...