OCT
27
2015

JPMorgan Chase says it is building a rival to Apple Pay

The largest U.S. bank is the latest company to try to profit from the prevalence of smartphones.

OCT
26
2015

Uber Said to Plan Another $1 Billion in Fund-Raising

If successful, the round of fund-raising would make Uber the world’s most valuable private start-up by far.

OCT
26
2015

Facebook Wins Dismissal of $15 Billion Users’ Privacy Suit

U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose, California, on Friday agreed with Facebook’s argument that case should be dismissed

OCT
22
2015

WikiLeaks releases documents from CIA director´s personal email account

Publication follows the hacking of John Brennan’s email account on Monday, allegedly by high school students who call themselves Crackas With Attitude.

OCT
21
2015

Citigroup Accused of Improperly Avoiding $800 Million in New York State Taxes

The case says that Citigroup used the federal government’s $45 billion taxpayer-funded bailout to improperly reduce its New York State franchise taxes in 2010 and 2011.

OCT
20
2015

Canada´s Trudeau topples PM Harper in shock election win

Harper conceded defeat and the Conservative party announced his resignation, ending a nine-year run in power and the 56-year-old´s brand of fiscal and cultural conservatism that voters appeared to sour on.

OCT
19
2015

Steve Ballmer Buys Into Twitter

The vote of confidence comes after a long year for the embattled company.

OCT
19
2015

British court rules taxi-hailing app Uber is legal in London

The court had been asked to decide whether that technology breaks laws which prohibit the use of taximeters in private hire vehicles in the British capital.

OCT
16
2015

Migrant crisis: EU approves Turkey action plan

Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey.

OCT
16
2015

First-ever French person legally recognized as ‘gender neutral’

The High Court in the town of Tours has allowed the citizen to leave the binary male/female sex system and although France doesn’t recognize a third gender, the use of neutral gender instead of male in this case has been approved.

OCT
15
2015

China beats US in dollar billionaire table

China added 242 dollar billionaires in 2015, bringing its total to 596, against 537 in the US.

OCT
14
2015

Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case

The University of Wisconsin successfully claimed that Apple used its microchip technology without permission in some iPhones and iPads.

OCT
14
2015

ACLU sues psychologists over CIA torture program

The CIA contracted psychologists James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, who allegedly designed and persuaded the CIA to adopt their torture techniques as official practice of the CIA.

OCT
13
2015

Dell makes $67bn bet on EMC in tech history´s largest acquisition

Largest-ever tech deal helps world’s third-largest computer maker to tap into faster-growing market for managing and storing data.

OCT
13
2015

SABMiller agrees AB Inbev takeover deal of £68bn

London-listed brewer of Peroni and Grolsch accepts improved terms from larger rival in Britain’s biggest takeover.

OCT
8
2015

Head of VW in US will tell Congress he knew of emissions rigging in early 2014

Horn will apologize once again for VW’s use of software to “defeat the regular emissions testing regime”.

OCT
8
2015

Regulators propose new banker reference form to weed out bad apples

Employers would have to get references going back six years under plan aimed at stopping corrupt bankers covering tracks by switching jobs

OCT
8
2015

Uber checks connections between hacker and Lyft : USA

The court papers draw no direct connection between the Comcast IP address and the hacker. In fact, the IP address was not the one from which the data breach was launched.

OCT
7
2015

Australia court rules against breast cancer gene patent

A US medical research firm was awarded the patent for the BRCA1 gene after isolating it in the 1990s.

OCT
7
2015

EU Court Says Data-Transfer Pact With U.S. Violates Privacy

Decision will affect about 4,500 companies that move, store personal data.

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