Reuters Technology Report: November 19, 2015

Click to View in Browser Thursday, November 19, 2015 Dorsey's Square jumps in market debut, offering hope to startups (Reuters) - Shares of Square Inc, the mobile payments company co-founded and still run by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, rose as much as 64 percent in their market debut, offering hope to tech startups hoping to go public. Intel warns that U.S. regulation could drive drone R&D overseas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intel Corp could relocate its drone research and development operations overseas if the federal government adopts an "overly prescriptive" approach to unmanned aerial systems technology, an Intel executive told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday. Tech group rejects post-Paris call for data encryption 'backdoors' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S.-based technology industry group on Thursday, in its first statement since last week's Paris attacks, rejected calls to give U.S. law enforcement authorities backdoor keys to let them circumvent encryption technology for cellphones. Investors 'swipe right' in Tinder-owner Match's debut (Reuters) - Shares of media mogul Barry Diller's Match Group Inc , the owner of popular dating site Match.com and mobile app Tinder, jumped as much as 24 percent in their market debut on Thursday, valuing the company at $3.57 billion. Google appoints VMware co-founder Greene to run cloud business (Reuters) - Google Inc, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said it appointed VMware Inc co-founder Diane Greene to run its cloud business. Nokia remains bullish about Africa business despite economic slowdown CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Finnish network equipment maker Nokia remains upbeat about its growth prospects in Africa despite a slowdown in many of the continent's fastest-growing economies, a senior company executive said on Thursday. HR software maker Workday's net loss widens on higher spending (Reuters) - Human resources software maker Workday Inc reported a bigger quarterly net loss, hurt by higher spending on sales, marketing and product development. U.S. consumers favor Amazon for online holiday shopping CHICAGO (Reuters) - A majority of U.S. consumers plan to go to Amazon.com for most of their online holiday shopping, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, even after traditional retailers have collectively spent billions of dollars to try to capture Web demand. Starboard asks Yahoo to sell core business instead of Alibaba stake (Reuters) - Activist investor Starboard Value LP asked Yahoo Inc to drop plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd due to tax concerns, and instead urged the company to sell its core search and display advertising businesses. United to let travelers use miles for in-flight Wifi (Reuters) - United Airlines plans to let travelers redeem frequent-flier miles for Wifi on flights, company officials said. Related Video Investors should be cautious on Square - Rapid Ratings' Gellert Telegram's struggle to stop IS messages Mediafile How about Hightail-ing it? On Twitter, dubious health claims from e-cigarette bots A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today A quick-fix on the day's news delivered when you want it. Register Today » » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2015 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add newsletters@email.reuters.com to your address book. Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook