Computers

Human-rights research group Citizen Lab said Tencent’s QQ Browser collected and transmitted data with weak encryption technology or without any encryption at all.

Alphabet’s computing-on-demand division has added Walt Disney’s Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media as a customer, giving the Google business a boost, as it tries to catch up to rivals.

Columnist Christopher Mims writes that startups, and Google, are racing to solve Wi-Fi’s “home-spectrum crunch.”

Amazon will launch the AWS Database Migration Service to help companies shift their data to the cloud.

Cash-strapped Toshiba said it would enter exclusive talks with Canon to sell its medical-device unit, part of its effort to shore up its finances following an accounting scandal last year.

While other companies cut spending on servers and other hardware as they move to cloud, Avnet is increasing its outlays for computer hardware as it enters the cloud-brokerage business, said CIO Steve Phillips.

Cisco Systems is mounting new responses to two of technology’s biggest trends, the rise of cloud computing and a new breed of multifunction hardware for corporate data centers.

U.S. and European Union officials published new details of a hard-fought data-privacy accord agreed to earlier this month, adding new grist to political wrangling in Europe about the proposed agreement.

Microsoft’s new Cyber Defense Operations Center is at the heart of the software giant’s campaign to rebuild its reputation for security at a time when the number of potential cyberattack targets has exploded.

Amazon.com is pitching its cloud computing service to big U.S. banks, hoping to break into one of the last major strongholds of old-line technology companies.

While factories close and companies downsize across China as slowing economic growth wreaks its toll, Shenzhen has become perhaps one of the world’s most exciting startup hubs.

Technologists are working hard to find alternatives to pesky computer passwords. Aiming to strike a balance between security and ease of use, big tech firms are turning to the smartphone as a replacement for passwords and other identification.

European Union privacy watchdogs said they will postpone a possible crackdown on trans-Atlantic transfers of personal details about Europeans until March or April, offering a temporary reprieve for thousands of companies.

The U.S. and the European Union reached a deal on a new data-transfer framework, the bloc’s executive arm said, potentially giving breathing room to thousands of companies that move information across the Atlantic.

Xerox announced plans to split itself into two companies and give board seats to activist investor Carl Icahn, reversing the company’s effort to marry business services with its copiers and printers.

Xerox will split itself in two and give several board seats to activist investor Carl Icahn, reversing an effort by the century-old company to marry business services with its copiers and printers.

Advanced Micro Devices said economic problems in China and seasonal weakness in gaming consoles are likely to cause a sharp drop in its first-quarter revenue.

Intel Corp. announced a new effort to use security and computing performance to sell a new generation of microprocessor chips.