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| New York Times, Twitter hacked by Syrian group Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 08:01 PM PDT  By Gerry Shih and Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post lost control of some of their websites Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached the Australian Internet company that manages many major site addresses. The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group that has previously attacked media organizations that it considers hostile to the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit for the Twitter and Huffington Post hacks in a series of Twitter messages. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. security agencies say Android mobile main target for malware Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 04:07 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's Android, the dominant mobile operating system, is by far the primary target for malware attacks, mostly because many users are still using older versions of the software, according to a study by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Android was a target for 79 percent of all malware threats to mobile operating systems in 2012 with text messages representing about half of the malicious applications, according to the study from the government agencies, which was published by Public Intelligence website. ... Full Story | Top |
| Microsoft: The insiders who could be CEO Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 03:25 PM PDT By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has a stable of senior executives who could be contenders to succeed Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, even though outsiders have sparked the most discussion so far. After Ballmer's surprise announcement on Friday that he would retire within a year, the board's lead independent director John Thompson, who heads the search for the new CEO, said the planned transformation of the software giant into a fast-moving 'devices and services' company is still on track. ... Full Story | Top |
| Avago sees strong quarter ahead of new iPhone launch Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 03:23 PM PDT By Aurindom Mukherjee and Neha Alawadhi (Reuters) - Avago Technologies Ltd, whose chips are used in Apple Inc's products, forecast strong growth for the current quarter ahead of the launch of the new iPhone. The company's wireless business is likely to be boosted by the launch of new smartphones by its two largest customers, Chief Executive Hock Tan said in a post-earnings conference call. Foxconn Technology Group, a contract manufacturer for Apple, accounted for 17 percent of Avago's revenue last year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Facebook says countries sought data on 38,000 users in first half of 2013 Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 03:10 PM PDT  By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Governments sought information on over 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of 2013 and the No.1 social network complied with most requests, the firm said in its first report on the scale of data inquiries it gets from countries around the world. The report follows allegations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that practically every major Internet company - including Facebook, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp - routinely hands over troves of data on potentially millions of users to national intelligence agencies. ... Full Story | Top |
| New York Times website was likely hacked, company says Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 02:33 PM PDT  (Reuters) - The website of The New York Times experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon, likely caused by hackers, the company said. New York Times Co spokeswoman Eileen Murphy tweeted on Tuesday that the "issue is most likely the result of a malicious external attack," based on an initial assessment. This is the second time the Times has experienced problems with its website in two weeks. On August 14, the site was down for several hours, an outage likely related to a scheduled maintenance update that occurred within seconds of the website's going down. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. judge wants external monitor for Apple in e-books case Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 02:08 PM PDT  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge weighing remedies to assure that Apple Inc does not fix prices again in the e-books market said on Tuesday that she plans to require it to hire an external monitor, something the company considers unnecessary. But U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan suggested a final injunction would be narrower than what the U.S. Department of Justice has been seeking, and would not restrict Apple's agreements with suppliers of other types of content such as movies, music and TV shows. ... Full Story | Top |
| TiVo posts profit after patent lawsuit settlement Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 01:29 PM PDT (Reuters) - Video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc posted a quarterly profit as it gained $490 million from a patent litigation settlement with Google Inc's Motorola Mobility and Cisco Systems Inc. Tivo reported a net profit of $268.9 million, or $1.96 per share, in the second quarter, compared with a net loss of $27.7 million, or 23 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 53 percent to $100.1 million. TiVo said in June it settled a patent lawsuit with Motorola Mobility, which had accused it of infringing patents for digital video recorders. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nissan plans to begin selling self-driving cars by 2020 Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 11:15 AM PDT  IRVINE, California (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd said it will be ready to bring fully self-driving vehicles to market by 2020. The Japanese automaker said it plans to offer "multiple, commercially viable" vehicles that are capable of autonomous operation without driver input. The self-driving vehicles will be sold "at realistic prices for consumers," the company said at a media event in Irvine, California. Nissan said its goal is to offer autonomous cars "across the model range within two vehicle generations" - about 10-12 years after the projected 2020 launch. ... Full Story | Top |
| BlackBerry eyes spinoff of messaging service: WSJ Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 10:49 AM PDT  TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is considering spinning off its messaging service into a separate unit, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, quoting people familiar with the matter. The subsidiary would be called BBM Inc, the newspaper said. (http://link.reuters.com/meq62v) A BlackBerry spokeswoman told Reuters the company cannot comment on rumor and speculation. ... Full Story | Top |
| China approves Mediatek, MStar merger with conditions Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 05:04 AM PDT TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Commerce approved the $3.8 billion merger between Taiwanese chip designers Mediatek Inc and MStar Semiconductor Inc with conditions on Tuesday on worries about potential monopoly in the TV chip market. The Chinese regulator said the two companies cannot collaborate in the LCD television chip segment and MStar's subsidiary that operates the LCD TV chip business will have to remain an independent entity. Only the smartphone chip and other business related to wireless communications will be merged into Mediatek. ... Full Story | Top |
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