Technology Report: Microsoft says disrupts cybercrime rings with roots in Kuwait, Algeria

	Click to View in Browser 06/30/2014 Microsoft says disrupts cybercrime rings with roots in Kuwait, Algeria BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp launched what it hopes will be the most successful private effort to date to crack down on cyber crime by moving to disrupt communications channels between hackers and infected PCs. Google, Detroit diverge on road map for self-driving cars SAN FRANCISCO/DETROIT (Reuters) - In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with several of the world's largest car makers, to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars. Google to shut down social networking service Orkut in September SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web's most popular businesses. U.S. top court rejects Google bid to drop Street View privacy case WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Google Inc's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of violating federal wiretap law when it accidentally collected emails and other personal data while building its popular Street View program. Exclusive: Facebook scores record 1 billion interactions for World Cup SAO PAULO (Reuters) - With 1 billion posts, likes and comments in just the first half of the World Cup, the soccer tournament is already the most talked-about event in Facebook Inc's decade-long history, data obtained by Reuters showed. EU's Almunia says could probe Google's YouTube dominance LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's antitrust chief said on Monday he could investigate Google's YouTube if he saw any attempt by the company to abuse its dominant position in online video searching. Hon Hai buys a stake in SK C&C; shares hit multi-year highs TAIPEI (Reuters) - Hon Hai Precision, the world's biggest electronics component maker, said on Monday it had bought a 4.9 percent stake in South Korean IT services firm SK C&C for 381 billion won ($376.59 million). Sony says only "natural disaster" could keep TVs in red this year TOKYO (Reuters) - Only a "natural disaster" could keep Sony Corp's TV division from returning to profit this year, the head of the newly independent business said on Monday, after a decade in the red and repeated missed promises of a turnaround. Look ma, no hands - Swedish start-up launches touchless selfie app STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Selfie fans, your life just got a little easier. A Swedish tech start-up has launched an app for Apple devices that lets people take photos of themselves without having to touch their screens. Why secular stagnation is wrong: Kemp LONDON (Reuters) - "Equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists," Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned gloomily in September 1932. "Our industrial plant is built; the problem just now is whether under existing conditions it is not overbuilt." Related Video Energy group seeks winds of change in rural Argentina Humble fire hydrant gets 21st Century facelift Mediafile A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend