Concerns are growing that the supposedly benign philosophy behind the new wave of internet star names such as Airbnb and Uber simply disguises a rapacious business model You can not only find someone online willing to rent you a room in their...

On Monday 17 July 2000, the graphics card company ATI put out a press release telling people to watch out for its Rage and Radeon cards in three new iMac computers to be unveiled by Steve Jobs, then Apple’s chief executive, in his keynote at...

As we walked into Huawei’s offices in Shenzhen, southern China, our English guide paused a moment. “When the FT came here, they wrote a story about how there were beds under the desks and this meant that everyone must be working...

Ex-politician seeking re-election and paedophile among those trying to exercise ‘right to be forgotten’ after landmark ruling Hundreds of people including an ex-politician seeking re-election, a paedophile and a doctor have applied...

Knowing exactly where your friends are all the time is creepy; only someone who works in surveillance has that data. Knowing roughly where they are, though, feels a lot more acceptable. That’s the thinking behind Facebook Nearby Friends...

Three online exchanges for the bitcoin virtual currency have suspended conversions into state-backed currencies, saying they are under attack from hackers suspected of trying to create fraudulent transactions. The value of the currency has...

Executive chairman says search company has ‘complained at great length’ to the US government over intrusion Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has insisted he had no knowledge of the US National Security Agency’s...

Hackers stole personal information with details of up to 70 million people – a third of American adults – including phone numbers, email and home addresses, the US retail chain Target admitted on Friday. The management said that the extent of a...

Caspar Bowden says he was unaware of Prism data-sharing program when he worked at software firm Microsoft’s former chief privacy officer says he does not have faith in the security of the software company’s technology, following...

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club says it has cracked the protection around Apple’s fingerprint sensor on its new iPhone 5S, just two days after the device went on sale worldwide. In a post on their site, the group says that their...

Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people to third-party scam sites are earning $200m every year, according to calculations by a team of Italian security researchers who have investigated hundreds of thousands of posts on the...

When Nasdaq stopped trading this week, it again showed how global firms are at the mercy of a power that created them “Data is the new oil,” declared Clive Humby, a Sheffield mathematician who with his wife, Edwina Dunn, made £90m...

American technology businesses fear they could lose between $21.5bn and $35bn in cloud computing contracts worldwide over the next three years, as part of the fallout from the NSA revelations. Some US companies said they have already lost...

Plain text logon details for email, social networks and company systems stored in browser’s Settings panel A serious flaw in the security of Google’s Chrome browser lets anyone with access to a user’s computer see all the...

Investigation finds fake Facebook ‘likes’ and Twitter followers could be misleading consumers How much do you like courgettes? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click...