Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) is looking for engineers to help test and develop Prime Air, its drone delivery service. According to the job posting, candidates should have at least five years of experience flying...

Twitter’s debt has been given “junk” status by US ratings agency Standard & Poor’s.The credit agency gave Twitter’s $1.8bn (£1.1bn) September debt issue a BB- rating,...

YouTube has launched a paid music subscription service to take on Spotify.Called YouTube Music Key, the streaming service is available free with adverts or as a paid service with extra features without...

Samsung Electronics has announced plans to spend up to $3bn (£1.8bn) to create a new smartphone factory in Vietnam.The facility would operate alongside another $2bn plant the company already runs in the...

Open net access should be seen as a basic right that all Americans should enjoy, President Obama has said.He said he supported net neutrality, which means all data travels on cables with the same priority. There...

While at Dublin tech conference Web Summit, I was ushered into a room with blue walls and Facebook logos everywhere. Someone placed a device that looked like ski goggles on my head. Immediately, my reality...

The government plans to oblige mobile operators to improve their coverage, possibly by sharing rivals’ networks.Partial “notspots”, where there is coverage from some but not all of the...

Major rating agencies Fitch and Moody’s have downgraded the company to “junk” status. Standard & Poor’s has warned it could soon do the same. The company has announced plans...

A 140-ton supercomputer that can perform more than 16,000 trillion calculations per second is set to give the UK its most accurate weather forecasts ever. The £97m machine will be fired up at the Met...

Organised criminal gangs are increasingly targeting high-end cars with keyless security systems, a UK motoring industry group has warned.The thieves are able to bypass security using equipment intended...