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Twitter shares soar as profit comes into view

Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)

The sharp rebound sent Twitter shares higher by 18.5 percent to $20.31 -- the highest close in three months -- on the back of investor optimism at its third qua...

Chinese food delivery startup raises $4 billion

Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)

The company, born of a merger of two complementary platforms in 2015, said it had raised money at an equity valuation of $30 billion, making it one of the large...

Facebook joins effort to boost newspaper subscriptions

Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)

The social network giant said it will test "premium news models" for organizations that deliver their content on Facebook, to enable the publishers to have more...

Privacy groups warn of perils in smartwatches for kids

Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)

A coalition of child protection, consumer, and privacy groups asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the risks posed to children by the devices an...

Bidding war heats up for $5 billion second Amazon HQ

Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)

From East to West, from North to South, metropolises across the United States are locked in a frenzied bidding war desperate to woo Amazon into favoring them as...

Pricey high-tech features define new smartphone wars

Oct 17, 2017 (AFP)

Features needed to propel a device into the top end are growing increasingly complex and expensive to develop, meaning only the companies with the deepest exper...

German envoy voices concerns about China web restrictions

Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)

German envoy Michael Clauss said the possible prohibition of virtual private networks (VPNs) and the recent blockage of WhatsApp have raised concerns among fore...

Security flaw prompts fears on Wi-Fi connections

Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)

The US government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued a security bulletin saying the flaw can open the door to hackers seeking to eavesdrop on or h...

Huawei bets on AI phone in challenge to Apple, Samsung

Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)

The Shenzhen-based group's new Mate 10 phone appears just weeks after Apple unveiled its top-of-the-line iPhone X, a timing choice many industry observers have ...

Facebook beefs up food delivery options from its app

Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)

A new "order food" feature rolled out for US users lets Facebook users order delivery or takeout from restaurant chains such as Papa John's and Panera, and on-d...

Global firms join rush to bet on Indonesia as next start-up frontier

Oct 08, 2017 (AFP)

Indonesia has seen a surge of cash into its technology sector over the past two years, helping support dozens of homegrown start-ups ranging from ride hailing a...

Future of news: bracing for next wave of technology

Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)

The next wave of disruption is likely to be even more profound, according to a study presented Saturday to the Online News Association annual meeting in Washing...

Google balloons to help restore Puerto Rico's cell networks

Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)

Alphabet Inc., which controls Google, obtained authorization from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy the devices -- developed from 2013 as...

Pixel smartphone upgrade highlights Google push into hardware

Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)

Google software and artificial intelligence were common threads in the gamut of new devices it unveiled to step up its challenge on the hardware front to rivals...

2013 hack hit all 3 billion Yahoo accounts: company

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

The disclosure from Verizon, which acquired Yahoo's online assets earlier this year, revised upward the initial estimate of one billion accounts affected. The s...

Google unveils new moves to boost struggling news organizations

Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)

The moves come amid mounting criticism that online platforms are siphoning off the majority of revenues as more readers turn to digital platforms for news. "I t...

Twitter aims to boost appeal with new 280-character tweet limit

Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)

San Francisco-based Twitter said Tuesday that the new limit, a major shift for the messaging platform known for its 140-character tweets, aims to address "a maj...

EU 'digital summit' upstaged by Germany and Brexit

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

The EU's 28 leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May, are to meet for two days in Tallinn starting Thursday to discuss how Europe can more efficien...

Google weaves touch controls into Levi Strauss jacket

Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)

The iconic California clothing maker, which has a legacy reaching back to Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, will mine the mobile internet boom with a "Trucker Jacket ...

Researchers develop spectroscopic 'science camera' system for smartphones

Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)

Three years ago, the National Science Foundation provided a pair of University of Illinois professors with a grant to develop technology called "Lab-in-a-Smartp...