An app developer appears to have prevailed in a long-running trademark war against the US president's business operation.
The creator of iTrump first clashed with the Trump Organization in January 2011, when the billionaire's lawyers al…
It may be President Trump's communication tool of choice - but it's a tweet by former President Barack Obama that has become the most liked in Twitter's history.
The tweet, the first in a series of three, quoted Nelson Mandela and was a…
Google has acquired the Seattle start-up Senosis Health, a developer of apps that help collect critical health information with smartphones, people familiar with the deal told GeekWire.com. Senosis's apps include SpiroSmart, SpiroCall, Hem…
India ended June with 1.210 billion telephone subscribers, up by 5.86 million from May. The total comprises 1.186 billion mobile subscribers, up by 6.02 million in the month, and 24 million fixed-line subscribers, down by 16,000 users in t…
Finnish mobile games and animation studio Rovio Entertainment Ltd said on Tuesday its sales in the first half of the year almost doubled following the success of "The Angry Birds Movie."
First-half revenue rose to 152.6 million euros ($…
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out U.S. pickup points where shoppers can retrieve items immediately after ordering them, shortening delivery times from hours to minutes in its latest move into brick-and-mortar retail.
The world's largest onl…
Indian police have arrested four people suspected of leaking an episode of the hugely popular TV show Game of Thrones before it was aired.
Three of the accused are current employees of Prime Focus Technology, while one is a former emplo…
Plans to build the world's "largest" data centre are being made public.
The facility is set to be created at the Norwegian town of Ballangen, which is located inside the Arctic Circle.
The firm behind the project, Kolos, says the chi…
Tigo Ghana is marking the fifth anniversary of its Tigo Digital Changemakers Competition with plans to invest an additional GHS 135,000 to advance the impact of leading social entrepreneurs in the programme. Run in partnership with the i…
Facebook approved the launch of an app in China similar to its own Moments app, in order to gain a foothold in the country, person with knowledge of the company’s plans told the New York Times. The photo-sharing app launched in May thr…
Telefonica is considering launching an OTT video streaming service outside its home market in Europe, in order to monetize its growing audiovisual production, El Pais reports. At the moment the programmes are only available over its Movist…
The Philippines on Monday suspended the accreditation and operation of Uber [UBER.UL] for one month, in a decision that followed a government crackdown on unregistered drivers offering app-based ride-hailing services.
The Land Transport…
The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer had its internet domain registration revoked twice in less than 24 hours in the wake of the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, part of a broad move by the tech industry in recent months to tak…
Ride-sharing company Uber is to allow its drivers in the UK to receive tips from passengers via its app.
Uber said the feature - first introduced in the US in June - would launch in the UK on Tuesday.
The change follows criticism tha…
On Friday, another one bit the dust. As Snap's shares plunged following disappointing results, it became clear that the myth that a feisty young challenger to Facebook could topple the social media giant from its perch was just that - a my…
The author of an influential guide to computer passwords says he now regrets several of the tips he gave.
Bill Burr had advised users to change their password every 90 days and to muddle up words by adding capital letters, numbers and s…
Social media giant Facebook has made a move into dedicated video, pitting it against YouTube and TV networks.
Users will soon see a new Watch tab that will offer a range of shows, some of which have been funded by the social network
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Ukraine's national postal service has been hit by a two-day-long cyber-attack targeting its online system that tracks parcels.
Unknown hackers carried out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Ukrposhta's website.
The…
What's made of sugar, can carry four people and travel at 50 miles (80 km) per hour? A biodegradable car, whose inventors say could be the next step in environmentally friendly motoring.
The lightweight electric car, created by students…
Parents who think they are being responsible by limiting their children's time online should think again: they could be putting their kids and Britain's security at a disadvantage, according to a former British spy chief.
"If you appear…
Hackers who have leaked Game of Thrones scripts and other data from entertainment company HBO have released a note demanding a ransom payment.
In a new dump, they also published a script for the as yet unbroadcast fifth episode of the c…
Algorithms don’t have good taste. At least not yet.
That’s the message Lonely Planet’s chief executive, Daniel Houghton, wants you to hear as his company launches a new app, Trips.
Since 1973, his firm has been using a vast human net…
Hackers could target electricity grids through security flaws in solar panel equipment, a Dutch researcher has said.
Willem Westerhof found 17 vulnerabilities in inverters, which convert electricity produced by the panels so it can be u…
A Google employee who wrote a controversial memo about workplace diversity has been fired, the BBC can confirm.
The controversial memo broke the firm’s code of conduct, Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai said on Monday in an email t…
The Pentagon has given US military bases permission to shoot down or otherwise destroy consumer drones flying overhead and nearby.
A spokesman revealed that guidance was issued on 4 August.
He said the exact terms of the policy were …
SVOD provider Iflix has acquired programming from Viacom International Media Networks. Iflix, which announced its expansion into Africa in June, will carry content from Viacom brands including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, MTV Bas…
Networking software supplier Lumina Networks has announced that it’s moving into the software-defined networking (SDN) market after acquiring assets associated with the SDN Controller product family from Brocade Communications Systems. The…
Apple is planning to release its first Apple Watch with 4G connectivity later this year, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. This would allow the watch to conduct multiple tasks without having to first connect to an iPhone.
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Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Monday it would raise about $1.5 billion through its first-ever offering of junk bonds as the U.S. luxury electric car maker seeks fresh sources of cash to ramp up production of its new Model 3 sedan.
The move…
A simple device to cut the weight of washing machines could save fuel, cut carbon emissions, and reduce back injuries, according to researchers.
A typical budget washing machine is weighted by 25kg of concrete to stop it moving while on…
Emoji icons have helped scientists train computers to understand sarcasm.
Researchers used 1.2 billion tweets containing at least one of the most popular 64 emojis to develop DeepMoji.
The algorithm learned first to predict which emo…
Bitcoin's value has jumped to a record high, following a month of turmoil.
The virtual currency reached $3,451.86 (£2,651) per coin in Monday trade, according to the Coindesk Bitcoin Price Index.
It had never crossed the $3,000 mark …
Apple has applied for a patent on a screen it is working on that would enable for increased privacy on portable devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Cnet reported, citing a patent application published on 3 August. Apple Insider said t…
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] knowingly rented its drivers defective cars at risk of catching fire, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, and the ride-hailing firm said it moved to fix the problem after one of the vehicles suffered…
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is working with Indonesia to tackle video content deemed to be offensive, including material that might incite violence or hate speech, a senior official of the search giant said on Friday.
Goog…
Transport networks specialist Infinera said revenues fell to USD 176.8 million in the second quarter, from 258.8 million the year before. The gross margin slid to 36.7 percent from 47.8 percent while the net result went to a loss of US…
A Russian man is facing 46 months in an American jail for running a network of hijacked computers.
Maxim Senakh was sentenced in Minnesota for running the Ebury botnet that was used to steal login names and passwords from computers runn…
The hackers behind the Wannacry ransomware have tried to conceal who they are by using a virtual currency that is more anonymous than Bitcoin.
Victims paid more than $140,000 (£107,000) in bitcoins to recover files scrambled by Wannacry…
The research aims to understand, from a comparative perspective, how the citizens use the internet when data is subsidised and when it is not
Compelling Mozilla-backed research, carried out by Research ICT Africa, finds that signifi…
Facebook's WhatApp unit is testing a feature that could allow users to communicate with businesses via secure chat sessions.
The beta version of WhatsApp's Android app is part of a broader product development effort to make the servic…
BERLIN (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) is to send more potential hoax articles to third-party fact checkers and show their findings below the original post, the world's largest online social network said on Thursday as it tries to fight so-cal…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it would invest in a new memory chip production line without joint venture partner Western Digital Corp, in a counter-punch against the U.S. firm which has opposed a planned auction of the bu…
Emailing has held on to the top spot as the most common internet activity in Britain, despite the continued rise of social media, a survey has found.
Some 82% of adults say they most often use the web for email, the Office for National …
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) rolled out a tool this week to help Kenyan users spot fake news ahead of a hotly-contested presidential election that has seen supporters of rival candidates trade bitter words online.
Voters go to th…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Snap Inc , owner of the Snapchat messaging app, had their busiest trading day in two and a half months in a volatile session on Monday, as early investors could sell their shares for the first time since its …
Vladimir Putin has banned virtual private networks (VPNs) and Tor in a crackdown on apps that allow access to websites prohibited in Russia.
The law, signed by President Putin, was passed by Russia's parliament last week and will come i…
The creators of several Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have criticised Apple's decision to remove their products from its App Store in China.
The BBC understands that as many as 60 VPNs were pulled over the weekend.
Apple said it wa…
Global Sim card shipments are expected to reach over 5.8 million in 2020, according to the latest data from ABI Research. In 2016, global Sim card shipments lifted 3.9 percent year-on-year to 5.4 billion units, driven by continued advancem…
InterDigital joined 5Tonic, a 5G laboratory in Spain set up in 2015 by experts from Telefonica and the research institute IMDEA Networks. 5Tonic exists as an open ecosystem for 5G research and innovation based in Madrid. InterDigital joins…
The number of active GSM mobile customers in Nigeria fell to 142.65 million in June, down by around 2.29 million from the previous month, according to figures from the Nigeria Communications Commission. The drop was due mainly to market le…
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