Technology

  Emirates Business BlackBerry Limited on Monday shared new details on its broad licensing strategy which addresses the growing need for secure, connected devices and endpoints in today’s Enterprise of Things. The first phase of BlackBerry’s strategy, announced in September 2016, was focused on providing the most secure and comprehensive Android software for smartphones around the world manufactured and marketed ...

  Bloomberg With the sweep of a single executive order, President Donald Trump unwound the Obama-era framework of regulations designed to combat climate change and announced that he was “putting an end to the war on coal.” But not everyone in high-tech is ready to return to the age of fossil fuels. Mike Cassidy, who was formerly vice president at ...

  Bloomberg Democratic lawmakers in Illinois are considering implementing their own inter- net safeguards at the state level after Republicans in Washington voted to roll back Obama-era internet privacy protections that were to take effect later this year. An Illinois House committee endorsed two online privacy measures, including one that would allow people to find out what information companies such ...

  Bloomberg In the sixth grade, Austin Russell turned a Nintendo gaming handset into a cell phone. At 15, he built a holographic keyboard. By 17, he’d filed for a patent. Now at 22, he’s running a startup at the heart of Silicon Valley’s latest technology mania. As founder and chief executive officer of Luminar Technologies Inc., Russell and his ...

  Bloomberg As Europe’s industrial companies attempt to modernize production with sensors and software, Microsoft Corp. is trying to grab a piece of the spending. The US software giant is launching a new lab in Munich — following openings in Redmond, Washington and Shenzhen, China — for customers investing in the so-called Internet of Things, the idea that everything from ...

  Bloomberg The US Congress’s decision to invalidate a set of internet privacy rules from the Obama administration set off a firestorm this week. The change, which will allow service providers like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to collect and sell customers’ information without their permission, prompted ad campaigns from internet freedom groups shaming lawmakers and a small wave ...

  Bloomberg Google’s UK business is to pay 25 million pounds ($31.4 million) in UK corporation tax, according to its latest results, a year after the company was ordered to hand over 130 million pounds in back taxes to the government. The UK subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.’s Google turned a profit, before taxes, of 148.2 million pounds for the year ...

  Bloomberg Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s reported an unexpected rise in quarterly earnings after the main assembler of Apple Inc.’s devices rode record iPhone sales during the pivotal holiday shopping period. The world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics reported a 30 percent increase in net income to NT$68.8 billion ($2.3 billion) in the three months ended December, according to ...

  AP Huawei Technology Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of telecoms equipment, said its 2016 sales rose 32 percent from a year earlier but profit increased by only 0.4 percent due to higher spending on research and marketing. Huawei said it earned 37 billion yuan ($5.4 billion) on total revenue that rose 32 percent to 521.6 billion yuan ($75.6 billion). ...

  Bloomberg BlackBerry Ltd. is finally starting to look like a real software company. After three years of acquisitions, layoffs and trying to convince customers it could do more than build smartphones, the Canadian company’s software revenue and profit margins are growing in the way Chief Executive Officer John Chen wants them to. The stock too: It rose the most ...