Five UK lenders are to add a facility allowing users to make instant payments via their smartphone apps later this year.

Facebook agrees a deal to share public data from its users in some countries with Yandex - Russia's largest search engine.

Click's Marc Cieslak tries the device which scans a user's palm to authorise financial transactions.

The rapper files a lawsuit to stop production of Coinye West bitcoins, which he says cashes in on his fame.

A team of international researchers from a university in New York State are using new technology that harnesses the power of acoustic waves to transmit data from under water.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) used secret technology to spy on computers that were not even connected to the internet, it is reported.

Apple and Google remove a game in which children were encouraged to operate on an overweight woman.

A federal appeals court in the US has set aside rules that prevent internet service providers from blocking or prioritising certain types of content.