Tag Archives: technology
U.S. charges former Apple buyer with defrauding more than $10 million from company
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged a former Apple Inc employee with defrauding the iPhone maker out of more than $10 million in a series of schemes. Dhirendra Prasad faces f...
Mar 20, 2022
Brazil court gives Telegram Sunday deadline to comply with order
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Messaging app Telegram must fully comply by Sunday with Brazil Supreme Court orders to block accounts that allegedly spread misinformation if it is to continue operating in the c...
Mar 20, 2022
Norway backs shareholder call for Toshiba to solicit buyout offers
TOKYO (Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, voted in favour of a shareholder proposal requesting Toshiba Corp solicit buyout offers from private equity firms, ...
Mar 19, 2022
Google is accused in lawsuit of systemic bias against Black employees
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A lawsuit filed on Friday accuses Google of systemic racial bias against Black employees, saying the search engine company steers them to lower-level jobs, pays them le...
Mar 18, 2022
Brazil’s supreme court suspends Telegram messaging app in the country
By Ricardo Brito and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram, saying it had repeatedly re...
Mar 18, 2022
Italian public sector told to replace antivirus software linked to Russia
ROME (Reuters) -Italy's public authorities must replace antivirus software that is linked to Russia to prevent any disruption of services due to the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, a draft decree seen by ...
Mar 18, 2022
Russia’s Yandex in talks to sell news aggregator, content platform Zen
(Reuters) - Russian internet giant Yandex on Friday said it was exploring options, including divestment, for its news aggregation service and its Yandex.Zen content feed and blogging platform. Nasdaq-...
Mar 18, 2022
U.S. Treasury official sees modest uptick in crypto illicit finance, but transactions small
By Andrea Shalal and Hannah Lang WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials have observed an uptick in the use of digital assets to facilitate illicit finance since Russia invaded Ukraine, but the transact...
Mar 18, 2022
Google internet cable lands in Africa, promising fast connection
DAKAR (Reuters) - A subsea cable owned by Google that promises to double internet speeds for millions in Africa arrived in Togo on Friday, the company said, the latest step in a multi-year project to ...
Mar 18, 2022
Crypto firm FTX founder slams crypto industry messaging on Russia sanctions
By John McCrank BOCA RATON, Fla. (Reuters) - Communications from the cryptocurrency industry around sanctions on Russia have been counterproductive and do not reflect what the firms are actually doing...
Mar 18, 2022
