Technology

News Hour: Protesting Uber drivers circled Taiwan’s transport ministry on Friday as the ride-hailing app halted operations on the island following an impasse with the government which deems the service illegal. The US firm announced last...

News Hour: Accenture Plc has developed new technology that it says can help make blockchain applications more secure and could speed up their deployment in sectors such as finance. The professional services firm on Wednesday unveiled...

News Hour: Telenor Group, on this Safer Internet Day 2017, releases results from a survey of parents and adults across Asia in order to give greater visibility of the types of digital bullying affecting youth and...

News Hour: China is proposing a further tightening of controls over the internet with the possible establishment of a new commission to vet internet services and hardware, Beijing’s internet regulator has said. China adopted a controversial...

News Hour: Dubai, one of the world’s largest trading hubs, has linked up with IBM to launch a scheme using blockchain computing technology to process transactions and keep track of goods being shipped, IBM said on...

News Hour: German engineering group Siemens has run a successful test of power generation gas turbine blades produced wholly by metal-based 3D printing by UK-based Materials Solutions, which it bought last year. Siemens said on Monday...

News Hour: Social media companies Facebook, Google and a group of news organizations launched an initiative on Monday to tackle fake news stories in France, with the media in the spotlight as the country’s presidential election...

News Hour: Users of WeChat sent around 46 billion electronic red packets – digital versions of traditional envelopes stuffed with cash – via the Chinese mobile social platform over the Lunar New Year period, the official...

News Hour: German utility EnBW on Friday said it would cooperate with car supplier Bosch on the development of batteries for the energy market, highlighting the importance of storage technology across industries. In a first step,...

News Hour: Facebook Inc is creating an app for television set-top boxes, including Apple Inc’s Apple TV, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The world’s biggest online social network is also...