8 years ago0414Facebook Inc (FB.O) is challenging a gag order from a U.S. court that is preventing the company from talking about three government search warrants that it said pose a threat to freedom of speech, according to court documents.
Facebook said it wants to notify three users about the search warrants seeking their communications and...
8 years ago0477Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Sunday it will start selling a refurbished version of the recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in South Korea on July 7, using batteries different from those that caused some handsets to catch fire last year.
Samsung said in a statement it will offer 400,000 phones, dubbed the Galaxy Note 7...
8 years ago0373Facebook Inc said on Friday it was changing the computer algorithm behind its News Feed to limit the reach of people known to frequently blast out links to clickbait stories, sensationalist websites and misinformation.
The move is another step by the world's largest social network to weed out spam, a battle Facebook has fought for...
8 years ago0328Sprint Corp used confidential information from its alliance with RadioShack Corp to open competing mobile phone stores, dooming the comeback by the electronics retailer and destroying jobs, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by RadioShack creditors.
RadioShack emerged from bankruptcy in 2015 with a deal to co-brand about 1,400...
8 years ago0343Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had completed a second test of an unmanned aircraft designed to some day beam internet access to remote parts of the planet, and unlike in the first test, the drone did not crash.
Facebook plans to develop a fleet of drones powered by sunlight that will fly for months at a time, communicating with each...
8 years ago0334Wipro Ltd (WIPR.NS), India's third-largest software services exporter, said on Wednesday that more than half its workforce in the United States consists of locals after it hired more than 1,600 people in the last six months.
The statement comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has asked federal agencies to review a visa program that...
8 years ago0396Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) may be on the verge of becoming Bank of America Corp's (BAC.N) largest shareholder, after the bank raised its dividend in the wake of a positive assessment of its ability to handle market stresses.
Bank of America on Wednesday boosted its annual dividend 60 percent to 48 cents per share...
8 years ago0383Uber Technologies said it never told a self-driving car executive to download files from his former employer, Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo unit, according to a court filing in a contentious trade secret lawsuit.
Alphabet's Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential...
8 years ago0342Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone turns 10 this week, evoking memories of a rocky start for the device that ended up doing most to start the smartphone revolution and stirring interest in where it will go from here.
Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones since June 29, 2007, but the first iPhone, which launched without an App Store and...
8 years ago0531Self-driving startup Drive.ai said on Tuesday it raised $50 million in a second round of funding as the Silicon Valley company prepared to deploy its technology in pilot vehicles later this year.
The company, one of a handful of startups building fully autonomous systems for cars, also said it had added to its board Andrew Ng, a...
8 years ago0522JPMorgan Chase & Co is shifting control of heating, air-conditioning and lighting in 4,500 of its branches to an operations center hosted in the internet cloud.
Sol Gindi, chief administrative officer for JPMorgan's consumer bank, said the company is making the change so that bank branch managers and loan officers can do their...
8 years ago0373EU antitrust regulators are likely to impose a record fine on Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google over its shopping service as soon as Tuesday, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday, concluding one of three cases against the company.
The European Commission's case was triggered by scores of complaints from both U.S. and...
8 years ago0376Apple Inc is leasing a small fleet of cars from rental company Hertz Global Holdings Inc to test self-driving technology, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
Hertz shares were up 13.5 percent at $10.82, while shares of Apple were slightly down.
Apple is renting Lexus RX450h sport-utility vehicles from Hertz's Donlen fleet-management...
