7 years ago068FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SoundCloud, the world's biggest music-streaming service, is still struggling to find a business model - it now has enough cash to last until fourth quarter, after laying off 40 percent of its staff, a representative said on Thursday.
The Berlin-based start-up is different from rivals Apple, Spotify and Amazon in...
7 years ago095(Reuters) - Traditionally buttoned-up Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) has relaxed the dress code for its computer engineers in a bid to attract tech talent with a more casual environment.
The fifth-largest U.S. bank by assets told employees in its technology division to "exercise judgment in determining when to adapt to...
7 years ago040MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, reacting to a U.S. government move restricting its activities, said on Wednesday it had fallen victim to U.S.-Russia global sparring while the Kremlin criticized the U.S. action as politically-motivated.
The Trump administration on Tuesday removed the Moscow-based firm from...
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 ago066NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced online harassment, most commonly on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Tuesday.
The survey shows 41 percent of 4,248 respondents have been subjected to online harassing behavior such as...
7 years ago069American technology companies are bringing automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes in a bid to halt the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne maladies worldwide.
Firms including Microsoft Corp and California life sciences company Verily are forming partnerships with public health officials in several U.S....
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 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 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 ago070A U.S. judge on Friday ruled that Alphabet Inc's self-driving car unit Waymo must disclose documents to attorneys representing Uber Technologies Inc about Waymo's partnership with Lyft Inc, saying the information could be important in Waymo's lawsuit accusing Uber of stealing some of its trade secrets.
Waymo claimed in a lawsuit...
7 years ago040Uber said on Thursday it would suspend its unlicensed service UberPOP in Finland until a law deregulating the taxi market comes into effect next year.
The U.S. ride-hailing company has come under fierce pressure from traditional taxi drivers and regulators across Europe who accuse it of unfair competition and skirting traditional...