BERLIN (Reuters) – German government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel's page have been attacked, rendering them inaccessible at times since 10.00 a.m. (4.00 a.m
Read moreLJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges for trading the digital bitcoin currency, said it has suspended its service after a security breach on Sunday, resulting in loss of around 19,000 bitcoins. The breach represented a small fraction of its total bitcoin reserve and the majority was held in secure offline systems, the Slovenia-based firm posted on its website on Tuesday.
Read more(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said it has fully resolved an issue with a delay in tweets appearing on users' timelines from 1651 PST to 1830 PST on Monday (from 7.51 p.m. ET to 9.30 p.m. ET).
Read moreBy Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc acquired a company that makes voice recognition technology for wearable devices and Internet- connected appliances, the latest sign of its ambition to extend its reach beyond computers and smartphones.
Read moreBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge rejected Uber Technologies Inc's bid that it not be required to disclose emails from Chief Executive Travis Kalanick in a California lawsuit accusing the popular ride-booking service of deceiving customers about how it shares tips with drivers.
Read moreBy Deepa Seetharaman and Nathan Layne SAN FRANCISCO/CHICAGO (Reuters) – For top U.S. retailers, free delivery is now the norm
Read more(Reuters) – Chinese online game developer Perfect World Co Ltd said it received a go-private proposal from founder and Chairman Michael Yufeng Chi at $20 per ADS, valuing the company at nearly $1 billion.
Read moreBy Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s technology rush gave hope that new ideas would help millions of Africans use their mobile phones to circumvent poor infrastructure but local start-ups are failing to draw major investors or create profits. Lack of talent, problems in attaining seed capital and ideas that cannot be sold to a mass market or easily monetized have so far held back hundreds of Kenyan start ups
Read moreBy Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – Google Inc's Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world's biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the Great Firewall was to blame. Large numbers of Gmail Web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, said GreatFire.org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group. Users said the service was still down on Monday
Read moreBy Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) – (This is a correction to Dec. 19 story, which originally lacked the word ‘temporarily’ in 11th paragraph.) AdvisorHUB, a year-old gossip and news website for the brokerage industry, has become such a part of brokers’ daily reading routine that some call it the “New York Post of financial news.” The website’s founder, Andrew Parish, says the site has 200,000 registered users and gets half a million unique hits a month. …
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