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Honda’s new CEO is making a break from his predecessor by prioritizing new technology while stepping back from the aggressive sales targets the Japanese auto maker had struggled to meet.

An ETF-type bitcoin investment, full of risks, is struggling for acceptance.

Last December, Instagram said it had purged millions of fake accounts, in an effort to provide more accurate numbers to marketers. Now, Italian security researchers say about 8% of Instagram accounts appear to be run by computer-generated “bots.”

To increase the biodegradability of chips used in electronics like mobile phones, scientists have designed a chip largely composed of wood.

Belgium’s privacy watchdog is taking Facebook to court over its tracking system and its treatment of “nonusers,” escalating a dispute with the U.S.-based social media company over its privacy practices.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is raising concerns over new policies from eBay and its payments subsidiary PayPal that may give the firms leeway to blast users with so-called robocalls.

The social link-posting website Reddit closed five of its online communities Wednesday under a new anti-harassment program led by interim chief executive Ellen Pao.

Sally Beauty Holdings said malware was used on some of its point-of-sale systems in March and April.

Microsoft’s top lawyer said the company might go along with a potential British law limiting the use of encryption.