Peter SayerSenior Editor, IDG News Service
Peter Sayer covers enterprise applications for CIO.com.
UK bank suspends online payments after fraud hits 20,000 accounts
The banking arm of U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has suspended online payments for its 136,000 checking account customers following a spate of fraud.
A second Privacy Shield legal challenge increases threat to EU-US data flows
The Privacy Shield transatlantic data transfer deal is now caught in a pincer action: A week after it emerged that Irish digital rights activists had filed suit to annul the deal come reports that a French campaign group has begun its own legal action.
Broadcom bids billions for Brocade in order to break it up
Chip maker Broadcom wants to buy storage vendor Brocade Communications Systems, stripping out its Fibre Channel business and selling the rest.
Uber drivers in the UK are employees, court rules
Uber should treat its drivers in the U.K. as employees, paying them at least minimum wage from the moment they are available to work until they log off, and providing them with paid time off, a London employment tribunal has ruled.
EU privacy watchdogs seek answers from WhatsApp and Yahoo about users' data
European Union privacy watchdogs have warned WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to stop sharing users' data with parent company Facebook until they investigated whether the transfers comply with EU data protection law. They also want Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to come clean about recent leaks and spying allegations.
Qualcomm agrees to buy NXP for over $37 billion
Microprocessor maker Qualcomm is spending its way out of a stagnating mobile phone industry, offering to buy NXP Semiconductors, a company with a strong position in automotive chips, for over US$37 billion.
Privacy group shoots legal arrow at Privacy Shield
Privacy Shield, the legal agreement allowing businesses to export Europeans' personal information to the U.S., is under fire.
IBM is folding SoftLayer into its Bluemix cloud services portfolio
IBM is ditching the SoftLayer brand for its public cloud infrastructure, replacing it with Bluemix, the name it uses for the rest of its cloud services portfolio.
London is next in line for Google-backed gigabit Wi-Fi
London is next in line to receive the Link high-speed Wi-Fi service that briefly brought high-speed porn to the streets of New York.
Not robocop, but robojudge? AI learns to rule in human rights cases
An artificial intelligence system designed to predict the outcomes of cases at the European Court of Human Rights would side with the human judges 79 percent of the time.
French surveillance law is unconstitutional after all, highest court says
The French Constitutional Council has taken another look at a new security law it waved through in July 2015, and found it wanting.
Bankers plan to give Corda blockchain code to Hyperledger project
Corda, a distributed ledger platform developed by a finance industry consortium, will go open source next month when its developers donate the code to the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project.
Wipro is buying cloud consultant Appirio for $500M
Bangalore-based consulting firm Wipro is buying Appirio to catch up with Accenture and Deloitte in the cloud applications business.
Intel's $1.4B antitrust verdict should be reviewed, top EU judge says
Intel's hope of recovering a record antitrust fine have improved with a recommendation from a top European Union judge on Thursday that the case be reviewed.
BBC eyes worldwide expansion for tiny educational computer
A new educational foundation hopes to introduce children worldwide to coding, using a tiny single-board computer that has changed the way coding is taught in schools across the U.K.