Yahoo buys video ad service BrightRoll for $640m
Technology giant Yahoo said it will buy digital video advertising service BrightRoll for $640m (£402m). The move would allow Yahoo to grow its video advertising...
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Samsung Electronics to build $3 billion smartphone plant in Vietnam
(Reuters) – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has applied for a license to invest $3 billion in building a second smartphone factory in...
Home Depot hackers stole 53 million email addresses
US retail giant Home Depot says hackers who stole payment-card details of millions of customers also stole 53 million email addresses. It said hackers accessed...
Virgin Galactic crash: Pilots’ actions analysed
Investigators probing the Virgin SpaceShipTwo accident have established a “human performance” team to help them understand the actions of the pilots. The new group will...
Google Leads from Behind on Net Neutrality
Winston Churchill quipped that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Dumb Internet regulation may be about to prove...
Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced to 42 months in jail in Denmark
(Reuters) – A co-founder of the Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years in prison, in...
Test flight of Virgin Galactic spaceship ends in fatal crash in California
(Reuters) – A passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday near the Mojave Air and...
Facebook warns of increased spending, shares fall
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) warned on Tuesday of a dramatic increase in spending in 2015 and projected a slowdown in revenue growth this quarter,...
Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector
Google is aiming to diagnose cancers, impending heart attacks or strokes and other diseases, at a much earlier stage than is currently possible. The company...
How car recalls work
Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of a story we published on June 11, 2014, in the midst of General Motors’ recall of nearly...