As part of a campaign to turn around its image, Uber Technologies started allowing customers to tip their drivers inside the app. The company rolled out the option Tuesday in Houston, Minneapolis and Seattle, with plans to
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Apple has said in a legal filing that there is “mounting evidence” Qualcomm is operating an “illegal business model” designed to extract high patent royalties on every wireless device sold. The iPhone maker said it was
Reddit is one of the few relics of the mid-2000s Internet that has not only survived but thrived in recent years. Now venture capitalists are giving a major boost to the link-sharing website, with funding that will give the company a
Google says it is creating new policies and practices to suppress terrorism-related videos, a response to UK lawmakers who have said the internet is a petri dish for radical ideology. Google will increase its use of technology
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he trial of Jay Y Lee, heir to the Samsung Group empire, has featured thousands of pages of documents and…
Amazon.com will acquire Whole Foods Market for US$13,7bn, a bombshell of a deal that catapults the e-commerce giant into hundreds of physical stores and fulfils a long-held goal of selling more groceries. Amazon agreed
Bitcoin tumbled as much as 19%, putting the digital currency on pace for its worst week since January 2015, as volatility climbs following a record-setting surge in the price. After flirting with $3 000 on Monday, the
Corporate chatroom start-up Slack Technologies has received recent inquiries about a potential takeover from technology companies including Amazon.com, people with knowledge of the situation said. A deal could give San Francisco
The Pirate Bay, one of the last surviving file-sharing websites, is in peril after judges at the European Union’s top court warned that giving users free access to a trove of Hollywood movies, TV shows and music risks breaking the law. “Making
After years toiling away in secret on its car project, Apple CEO Tim Cook has for the first time laid out exactly what the company is up to in the automotive market: it’s concentrating on self-driving technology. “We’re focusing on autonomous