KFC China has become one of the first fast-food restaurants in the world to use facial recognition technology for serving customers

German carmakers BMW, Audi, and Mercedes will pay around €2.5bn to buy Nokia’s maps business, beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars.

Silicon Valley has made the US a superpower of surveillance. No other country comes close, writes Raphael Satter.

Mexico telecoms czar Carlos Slim topped the Forbes annual world’s richest list, holding the edge over Microsoft’s Bill Gates who continued to give away billions to charity.

GOOGLE has become a “political tool” vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said yesterday, warning that the US internet giant’s statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.

China today renewed Google’s licence to continue operating in the country, securing the search giant’s foothold in the country’s fast-growing internet market despite tensions over censorship.

US stocks mostly fell today as mixed reports on home prices and consumer confidence gave investors little incentive to step into the market.

CHINA wants all personal computers sold domestically to come with software that blocks access to online pornography, which it has banned, the main developer of the software has said.

China warned Google and other popular web portals that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching the country’s users.

China launched a major crackdown on internet pornography today, targeting popular search engines such as Google.

A tiny Co Tyrone technology company has cracked the Chinese internet market to win a prestige multi-million pound contract, it was announced today.

Baidu.com, a concern aiming to become the Chinese-language equivalent of internet search giant Google, is poised to follow the US giant’s example with an initial public stock market offering in America, hoping to raise €36.2m.

Google has taken a stake in leading Chinese internet search tool Baidu, paving the way for potential co-operation between the two rivals.