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US President Barack Obama has vowed that America will respond to Russian hacking undertaken during the country’s presidential campaign. Yet the public may never hear about it. During his presidency, Obama favoured a policy of deterrence when it came

In a year when populist voters reshaped power and politics across Europe and the US, the world’s wealthiest people are ending 2016 with $237bn more than they had at the start. Triggered by

The second major hack of Yahoo user accounts is unlikely to derail Verizon Communications’ US$4,8bn acquisition of the tech giant, with investors and the public becoming inured to near-daily disclosures

Bitcoin headed for its biggest weekly jump since June as rising geopolitical risks boosted demand for alternative assets. The cryptocurrency surged 15% this week to US$900,40 as of 2.38pm in Hong Kong, taking its gain this year

Ever since the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and handed hard drives filled with highly classified documents to the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, there has

When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co, made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she found it – not in a hot start-up run by a

Nokia has sued Apple, saying the iPhone maker infringed several mobile patents, turning simmering tension between the companies into a bitter public legal battle on multiple fronts. The Espoo, Finland-based

Twitter’s chief technology officer is leaving, another blow to the social media company’s top ranks just weeks after its chief operating officer resigned. Adam Messinger, who has been CTO since 2013, also

BlackBerry boosted its fiscal 2017 earnings outlook and posted a profit in the third quarter, showing the company’s bet on moving more into software and completely away from handsets is paying off. Fiscal third-quarter earnings

Nintendo’s debut game for smartphones is turning out to be anything but super. Since its release for Apple devices on Thursday, Super Mario Run has shot to the top of download charts in more than