Apple plans steps to prevent future App Store attacks
BEIJING/BOSTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s chief marketing executive Phil Schiller said on Tuesday that the company plans steps to prevent further attacks on its App Store.
Microsoft begins worldwide release of Office 2016
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said it began the worldwide roll-out of Office 2016, the latest addition to its cloud-based subscription service Office 365, on Tuesday. Microsoft said Office 2016 brings new versions of desktop apps for Windows including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Access and allows people to collaborate and work together. “These latest innovations take another big step forward in transforming Office from a familiar set of individual productivity
Starbucks expands sales-boosting Mobile Order & Pay across U.S.
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Starbucks Corp on Tuesday said its sales-boosting Mobile Order & Pay service is now available in all of its nearly 7,500 U.S. company-operated shops, a nationwide roll-out completed about three months ahead of schedule. Mobile Order & Pay is a feature on the Starbucks app, which the company says has 16 million active users on Apple and Android devices in the United States.
China's Xiaomi announces telecom carrier service, new flagship handset
Xiaomi Inc, China’s leading smartphone maker, announced on Tuesday two prepaid wireless plans to mark its debut as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) competing against China’s national carriers. MVNOs, which purchase network capacity from large carriers and resell mobile plans under their own branding, have failed to gain traction in China, where three state-owned giants dominate the telecoms industry.
NY regulator issues first license for bitcoin company
By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state’s financial services regulator has granted a “BitLicense,” its first, to a virtual currency, the agency announced on Tuesday. The license went to Circle Internet Financial, a Boston-based bitcoin startup, the New York Department of Financial Services said. The “BitLicense” is based on the first set of guidelines created by a state specifically for companies that operate in virtual currencies such
Exclusive: Shopify, Google boosting presence in BlackBerry's hometown
By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – Tech giants such as Google Inc and upstarts like Shopify Inc are rapidly expanding their presence in and around BlackBerry’s hometown of Waterloo, Ontario, even as the smartphone maker further pares back some of its teams. Canada’s newest tech darling Shopify, which went public this year and is valued at $2.75 billion, will soon announce a major expansion in the region, according to three
Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom to offer in-flight broadband in Europe
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Passengers on European short-haul flights are to be offered high-speed internet access using a combined satellite and air-to-ground network to be built by Britain’s Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom. The platform will cater for travellers in Europe, which includes some of the highest density air-traffic routes in the world, and provide levels of speed and coverage comparable to home broadband services, the companies said at a joint press
Skype glitch preventing some users from making calls
(Reuters) – Skype, Microsoft Corp’s online telephone and video service, said some users are unable to make calls on Monday because their settings show that they and their contacts are off line, even when they are logged in. In an updated blog post, Skype also said some messages to group chats are not being delivered and that users who are not already signed in may face difficulty while accessing their
France rejects Google appeal on cleaning up search results globally
By Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) – French data privacy regulators took a step towards sanctioning Google by rejecting the company’s request to drop a case against it for refusing to clean up information from its search engine results. Under Europe’s so-called right to be forgotten, individuals can ask search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing to remove information that appears under a search of their name if it is
Apple pledges more aid to help with Europe's migrant crisis
Apple Inc is stepping up aid to the thousands of migrants that are streaming into Europe from war-torn countries, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told employees in an internal message on Friday. Cook wrote in a message on the company’s intranet site that the Macbook and iPhone maker will make a “substantial donation” to relief agencies supporting the migrants and will match employee donations to the cause by 2-to-1. The
