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Ford invests $182.2 million in software company Pivotal

May 5, 2016 7:32 AM EDT

By Sarah McBride

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F) is investing $182.2 million in San Francisco-based Pivotal Software, underscoring the pressure carmakers face to boost their technology platforms given the rise of connected and self-driving cars.

The investment in Pivotal, a cloud-software company which provides tools that make it easier for developers to build software, will help Ford boost its own software capabilities. As part of the deal, Ford and Pivotal will jointly open labs in the United States and Europe where their engineers will work side by side.

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Exclusive: Big data breaches found at major email services - expert

May 4, 2016 9:01 AM EDT

By Eric Auchard

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters.

The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru , Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) email users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security... More