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BlackBerry and the Canadian government are opening a research centre for self-driving cars that raises the possibility of government backing for the former smartphone maker’s automotive software unit. Chief CEO John Chen and

In his farewell note to investors, technology analyst Gene Munster was slightly bearish on Apple, a contrast to more than a decade of bullish recommendations. Munster announced his departure from brokerage firm Piper

Tech executives summoned to meet with Donald Trump in New York Wednesday had reason to suspect they were being lured into a trap. In the run-up to the election, the President-elect clashed with industry

Yahoo disclosed a second major security breach that may have affected more than a billion user accounts, another blow to the company’s reputation as it nears the sale of its main Web businesses to Verizon Communications. The company

Microsoft said it will release a translation app for Windows and other operating systems from rivals Apple and Google, part of a broader race between the world’s largest technology companies for supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence. The

On one end of the phone, there was Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, who has pledged a good chunk of his fortune to ending climate change. On the other end of the line, there was President-elect Donald Trump, who has described

Bill Gates and more than a dozen of the world’s wealthiest individuals revealed a new, US$1bn investment fund late on Sunday to foster major advances in clean energy production. Dubbed Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the 20-year fund

Once upon a time, there was a lot of optimism that the blockchain – the technology underlying bitcoin – would help the finance industry deal with a big headache: post-trade processing, the often long and arduous task of making sure

BlackBerry has rebranded the software products it acquired over the last three years, tying them together into a single system it hopes will be the go-to platform companies and governments use to protect their electronic devices

Microsoft is creating a version of the Windows 10 operating system that will run on laptops powered by Qualcomm chips, a move that could erode Intel’s dominance in PCs and help the software maker gain a bigger foothold in mobile