Licensing, cybersecurity power BlackBerry’s beat, shares rise 10%
Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd beat quarterly profit and revenue estimates on Friday, boosted by demand in its patent licensing and cybersecurity businesses, sending its shares up...
U.S. Justice Department and FCC fight state effort to block merger of Sprint, T-Mobile
The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission filed in court on Friday to support a merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, the third and fourth...
Just Eat food fight nears end as it backs Takeaway’s final offer
Just Eat backed a final 5.5 billion pound ($7.2 billion) all-share offer from Takeaway.com on Friday, saying a tie-up to create one of the leading...
France fines Google $167 million for opaque ad platform rules
France’s competition watchdog on Friday fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) for abusing its dominant market position by applying opaque and unpredictable rules on...
Yandex approves changes to corporate governance to allay Kremlin fears
Shareholders of Yandex, Russia’s biggest technology company, approved changes to its corporate governance on Friday to allow a golden share to be held by a...
German union extends strike at Amazon’s Leipzig warehouse until December 24
Amazon workers in the eastern German city of Leipzig will extend until Christmas Eve their strike over pay and conditions, trade union Verdi said on...
Twitter removes nearly 6,000 Saudi-backed accounts for platform manipulation
Twitter Inc said on Friday it has removed nearly 6,000 accounts for being part of a state-backed information operation originating in Saudi Arabia....
Christmas tree app updates tradition in Estonia
Estonians have always headed to the forests in their thousands to cut down Christmas trees, but these days they will probably have a smartphone in...
Remgro-backed telecoms firm speeds up broadband expansion after $1 billion debt deal
A South African telecoms company backed by investment firm Remgro plans to expand its high-speed broadband network after completing a 16 billion rand ($1 billion)...
Just Eat backs Takeaway.com’s final offer in bidding war
Just Eat backed a final all-share offer from Takeaway.com and rejected a rival cash bid from Prosus on Friday, saying a tie-up with Takeaway to...