Category: Tech

(Reuters) – Group video chat app Houseparty offered a reward of $1 million for evidence of what it said was a smear campaign against the company as it fought to quash claims that the app was stealing data from others installed on the same smartphone. Hundreds of tweets have surfaced in the last two days,…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) will launch its Disney+ service in India on April 3, the company said on Tuesday, intensifying rivalry with Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) Prime Video in a country where demand for online streaming is surging. Disney+ will be launched with local partner Hotstar, one of…

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – Huawei warned on Tuesday that 2020 would be its most difficult year yet due to American trade restrictions which dealt a blow to its overseas sales in 2019, and predicted the Chinese government would retaliate against the United States. The world’s largest maker of telecoms equipment issued the warning as it…

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital’s metro, but both sides broke agreements, a Helsinki district court ruled on Tuesday in a long-running legal dispute. The dispute dates back to Helsinki’s decision in 2008 to pick the German…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country starts to return to normal following the coronavirus lockdown. “The (Chinese) market has entered a full recovery stage, and… has already recovered to 80 to 90% of the normal level,” Chief…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday defended the impartiality of its search results after users in Japan seeking to corroborate rumors of an imminent state of emergency declaration by the government were met with no results on its website. Climbing coronavirus cases in Tokyo have seen politicians call for residents to reduce social mixing…

TOKYO (Reuters) – A survey of Line Corp’s (3938.T) chat app users in Tokyo and neighboring prefectures in partnership with Japan’s health ministry found 7.1% of respondents in the capital reporting at least one of the symptoms of the coronavirus. A total of 443 people in Tokyo are infected with coronavirus according to official figures.…

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it has seen a 775% jump in a month for Teams calling and meeting in Italy, withdrawing an earlier statement that the surge was for its cloud services in regions around the world that enforced social distancing to curb transmission of the coronavirus. The company posted the correction in…

BERLIN (Reuters) – Shares in meal-kit delivery firm HelloFresh (HFGG.DE) jumped to a record high on Tuesday after it said it expected strong first-quarter sales and profit due to a surge in demand as coronavirus lockdowns prompt more people to cook at home. HelloFresh shares were up 14.2% at 1021 GMT, making them the biggest…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warehouse, delivery and retail gig workers in the United States went on strike on Monday to call attention to safety and wage concerns for people laboring through the coronavirus crisis. Among the strikers were some of the roughly 200,000 workers at U.S. online grocery delivery company Instacart, according to strike organizer…