Reuters Technology Report: January 8, 2016

Click to View in Browser Friday, January 8, 2016 U.S. to form task force to fight online militant propaganda WASHINGTON/SAN JOSE (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday announced the formation of a task force to counter online propaganda by Islamic State and other militant groups as the United States tries to crack down Crash rates for self-driving cars less than conventional cars -study WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Self-driving cars are involved in fewer crashes on average than vehicles with a driver behind the wheel, a study released on Friday by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows. SpaceX to retry ocean rocket landing after success on land CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX will attempt to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on a barge in the Pacific Ocean, seeking another milestone a month after landing a booster on the ground in a spaceflight first, the company said on Friday. Mobile shopping soars during holiday season : Comscore data (Reuters) - Shopping from mobile devices jumped 59 percent during the U.S. holiday shopping season, data from analytics firm Comscore Inc showed, as consumers were lured by attractive deals and shipping options. German spies revive internet snooping work with US: reports BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's BND intelligence agency has resumed joint internet surveillance with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) after halting collaboration with Washington last year following a row over spying practices, German media reported. Wall St. bets on Apple bounceback despite iPhone shipment worries (Reuters) - Apple Inc has lost about $50 billion of its market value in the first four days of the year, but Wall Street brokerages remained confident the stock would bounce back. Exclusive: NFL to live-stream all London games, in talks with Apple, Google (Reuters) - The National Football League is planning to live-stream all three games scheduled to be played in London next season, and Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc subsidiary Google are among the technology companies in talks to buy the rights to conduct the streams, said two sources familiar with the situation. Fragrance anyone? Touch-free car controls split world's drivers LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Germans love the latest wave of touch-free car controls, which respond to the flick of a wrist or the swipe of a hand, as it means no messy fingerprints on their spotless dashboards. Italians, known for an extravagant hand gesture or two, are not so sure. Finland extradites Russian computer fraud suspect to U.S. HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland said on Friday it would extradite a Russian citizen accused of computer fraud and abuse to the United States for trial. Texas Instruments, Analog Devices drop potential Maxim bid - Bloomberg (Reuters) - Chipmakers Texas Instruments Inc and Analog Devices Inc have decided not to pursue an acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products Inc at this time, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Related Video Paper airplanes go high-tech at CES World's first passenger drone unveiled at CES 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 2016 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