Category: Tech

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will start labeling Russian, Chinese and other state-controlled media organizations, and later this summer will block any ads from such outlets that target U.S. users, it said on Thursday. The world’s biggest social network will apply the label to Russia’s Sputnik, Iran’s Press TV and China’s Xinhua News, according…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – State-backed hackers from China have targeted staffers working on the U.S. presidential campaign of Democrat Joe Biden, a senior Google security official said on Thursday. The same official said Iranian hackers had recently targeted email accounts belonging to Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign staff. The announcement, made on Twitter by the head…

(Reuters) – Telsa Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday called for Amazon.com Inc to be broken up. “Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Musk tweeted two days after saying he was taking a break from the social networking service. Musk does not have legal authority to break up Amazon. Musk’s tweets were…

(Reuters) – Shares of Slack Technologies (WORK.N) dipped 3% on Thursday ahead of the workplace communication platform’s quarterly report, pausing a three-month rally fueled by millions of people working from home due to the coronavirus. A top pick among traders betting on shares of companies benefiting from the recent shutdown of the U.S. economy, Slack…

(Reuters) – Shares of ZoomInfo Technologies Inc almost doubled in their U.S. market debut on Thursday, after the business intelligence platform raised about $934.5 million in the largest U.S. technology listing so far this year. The deal is the latest in a string of U.S. IPOs this week and underscores the recent rebound in the…

MUEHLBACH AM MANHARTSBERG, Austria (Reuters) – European countries cautiously emerging from the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic are looking to a second generation of contact tracing apps to help contain further outbreaks. The latest apps have big advantages over earlier ones as they work on Apple’s iPhone, one of the most popular smartphones in Europe,…

BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany has become the second major European economy to use a multi-billion-euro recovery plan to spur clean driving, with incentives for electric cars that should boost Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) and Tesla (TSLA.O), while polluting SUVs face higher taxes. Berlin’s 130 billion euros ($147.41 billion) coronavirus stimulus plan follows French President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish researchers have developed a fully automated robot that can take coronavirus swabs so that health care professionals are not exposed to the risk of infection. Researchers from Southern University of Denmark (SDU) and Lifeline Robotics hope their prototype ‘swab robot’ can soon be deployed to relieve health professionals of the potentially…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A bet on tech companies has been a solid one in the aftermath of the coronavirus-induced market crash, but some investors are questioning whether those stocks can maintain their momentum if jobs do not recover soon. Less than three months after the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus spurred unprecedented lockdowns…

(Reuters) – Self-driving cars, long touted by developers as a way to eliminate road deaths, could likely only prevent a third of all U.S. road crashes, an analysis of traffic accidents released on Thursday has found. The study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a research group financed by U.S. insurers, found the…