Tech Industry Alleged Chinese cryptocurrency scam may have driven down the price of bitcoinsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY The recent price drop in bitcoin may have been related to a selloff following an alleged massive cryptocurrency scam that apparently swindled up to …
Texas A&M 23 local governments in Texas crippled by coordinated ransomware attacksiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY About 23 local governments in Texas have been crippled in an unprecedented coordinated ransomware attack. The attack started on Friday. Texas State …
Trend Micro Trend Micro exposes 85 adware apps on Google Play with 8M+ downloadssiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Google LLC has built security mechanisms into Google Play to keep malicious Android apps out, but occasionally cybercriminals find a way to jump the …
Translation Baidu announces simultaneous translation service for business userssiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Baidu Inc. today announced the availability in beta test of a new “speech-to-speech simultaneous translation service” designed to facilitate …
Tech Industry YouTube sued by LGBTQ creators for discriminationsiliconangle.com - James Farrell LGBTQ creators are suing Google LLC because they say their content has not been fairly treated on the company’s video website YouTube. According to a …
Tech Industry Proving foldable smartphones are hard, Huawei delays release of Mate Xsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Smartphone sales have stagnated over the past few years and even started to decline as newly released phones struggle to provide any great leap …
Tech Industry 700,000 Choice Hotels customer records stolen, held for ransomsiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley Some 700,000 customer records belonging to Choice Hotels International Inc. have been stolen and those behind the data theft are demanding a ransom …
Tech Industry Ripple’s Xpring invests $264M into micropayments startup Coilsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today announced a grant of 1 billion Ripple XRP cryptocurrency worth about $264 million into Coil …
Microsoft Microsoft announces availability of Ultra Disk storage service for data-intensive workloadssiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Microsoft Corp. has announced the general availability of its new Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive storage service in three of its cloud …
Nvidia Graphic turnaround: Nvidia posts solid revenue gains thanks to AI, graphics chip salessiliconangle.com - MIKE WHEATLEY Things are looking up at Nvidia Corp., which easily beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its second quarter thanks to growing demand for its …
Tech Industry Data analytics startup Incorta raises $30M to expand operationssiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Data analytics startup Incorta Inc. today said it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its headcount, invest in further product …
Tech Industry Betting on automation, UPS buys stake in self-driving truck startup TuSimplesiliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher United Parcel Service Inc. today disclosed that it has acquired a minority stake in TuSimple Inc., a San Diego-based startup developing autonomous …
Cloudflare Cloudflare files for IPO, revealing revenue of $129M in first half of 2019siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher Cloudflare Inc. today filed to go public, becoming the second tech firm after WeWork Cos. to have done so since the start of the week.San …
Alibaba Group Alibaba blows past earnings estimates as cloud business hits $4.5B run ratesiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shrugged off the slowdown in the Chinese economy and the Washington-Beijing trade dispute in its fiscal first quarter, …
Tech Industry Dell and AT&T collaborate on open-source 5G network edge infrastructuresiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Dell Technologies Inc. and AT&T Inc. said today they’re working together to develop open-source infrastructure necessary to enable the “network edge” …
Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin price drops as US-China trade tensions ease, renminbi risessiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley The price of bitcoin looked set to drop below the important $10,000 mark in trading Wednesday as the cryptocurrency loses most of it gains made since …
Tech Industry Facebook changes Groups privacy settings and vows crackdown on extreme contentsiliconangle.com - James Farrell Privacy settings for Facebook Inc.’s ‘Group’ are changing to make things simpler, the company announced on Wednesday. The social media giant said …
Tech Industry NetApp beats estimates two weeks after revising its outlooksiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Data storage company NetApp Inc. managed to beat its own expectations on earnings and revenue for its first quarter financial results, but that was …
Huawei Huawei employees allegedly helped African governments spy on opponentssiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley Employees of Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. have assisted governments in at least two African countries of spying on political opponents, the Wall …
Tech Industry BC Partners acquires IT services firm Presidio for $2.1Bsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Information technology services firm Presidio Inc. is going private two years after its initial public offering as the company’s board accepted a …
Tech Industry AI, facial-recognition tools help agency find exploited childrensiliconangle.com - Mark Albertson Over the past 12 years, more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking in the U.S. have been reported to a hotline that receives an average of 150 calls …
Cisco Systems Cisco falls on poor guidance and plummeting sales in Chinasiliconangle.com - MIKE WHEATLEY Even after the stock market bloodbath today, networking company Cisco Systems Inc. took even more of a beating later after posting …
Tech Industry Capital One hacker may have stolen data from more than 30 other companiessiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley Paige A. Thompson, the alleged hacker being the theft of over 100 million customer records from Capital One Financial Corp. may have stolen data from …
Tech Industry VMware in talks with Pivotal Software over potential acquisitionsiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Pivotal Software Inc. is looking to reunite with its parent company VMware Inc., which it spun out of in 2013.The companies, which are both …
Tech Industry Virtual Instruments acquires Metricly to help customers optimize cloud spendingsiliconangle.com - MIKE WHEATLEY Infrastructure performance management firm Virtual Instruments Inc. is adding cloud cost optimization to its repertoire of skills through the …
Tech Industry Lime reportedly seeking to raise up to $500M in new fundingsiliconangle.com - MIKE WHEATLEY A few weeks ago, insiders leaked that Bird Rides Inc. is in the process of raising new funding at a $2.5 billion valuation. Rival scooter and bike …
Tech Industry Insecure biometric database leaks 1M+ individuals’ fingerprint scanssiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Researchers have stumbled upon a publicly accessible biometric database that exposed more than a million people’s fingerprints, along with a wealth …
WeWork Coworking behemoth WeWork files for IPO as losses pile upsiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER WeWork Cos. today published the prospectus for its upcoming initial public offering, revealing a fast-growing top line and mounting losses that will …
Tech Industry Slack debuts new automation APIs for enterprise IT teamssiliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher Slack Technologies Inc. this morning previewed new application programming interfaces for its platform that will allow information technology …
