Technology

(Reuters) – Shares of Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) surged as much as 44% on Thursday after Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said it had plenty of cash on hand to tide over the coronavirus crisis and signaled a recovery in…

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China’s Xiaomi had resumed operations for over 80

LONDON (Reuters) – As worries over the economic hit from the coronavirus outbreak spread from stocks, oil and bonds to cryptocurrencies late last week, bitcoin crashed to its worst day in seven years. But plummeting prices weren’t the only problem…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some app developers say Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google is increasingly pressing them to embed code in their own products that will deepen Google’s access to data on consumers, giving the company a leg up on rivals.…

TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As people disperse to their homes to work and study because of the coronavirus pandemic, taking their laptops and company data with them, cyber security experts say hackers will follow, seeking to take advantage and infiltrate…

(Reuters) – Chinese social video app TikTok named the initial members of a U.S.-focused content moderation committee to advise on its policies on Wednesday, as it faces U.S. scrutiny over data-sharing and censorship concerns. The council, which it announced in…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A tiny Indian consumer rights group which has been leading a campaign to make telecoms companies pay billions of dollars due to the state said on Wednesday it would oppose a government proposal to allow repayment…

(Reuters) – U.S. startup companies focused on transportation technology could be among the casualties of COVID-19, according to venture investors who say new funding and investment exits are drying up as the economic outlook darkens. “We don’t know what it…

MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) – Mobile carriers are sharing data with the health authorities in Italy, Germany and Austria, helping to fight coronavirus by monitoring whether people are complying with curbs on movement while at the same time respecting Europe’s privacy laws.…

(Reuters) – A former prosecutor who ran the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in 1989 sued Netflix on Wednesday for defamation over her portrayal in “When They See Us,” claiming the miniseries about the “Central Park…