The price of bitcoin hit new record highs in trading today, breaking through $20,000 for the first time in its history. The $20,000 mark was surpassed at 8:44 a.m. EST and the price of bitcoin continued to rise. Bitcoin was sitting at $21,786.06 as of 9:14 p.m. EST, up almost 12% over the last 24 ...

It was tale of two different initial public offering outcomes on public markets today as financial technology startup Upstart Holdings Inc. boomed on its debut while e-commerce firm Wish’s parent company ContextLogic Inc. bombed. Upstart, which offers a lending platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automate the borrowing process, ...

Data protection and privacy startup BigID Inc. announced today that it has raised $70 million in new funding to deliver new applications for using data for data privacy, security and governance. The Series D round was led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global and included Glynn Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners and Boldstart Ventures. ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than 45 million medical images exposed online that include personally identifiable information. Detailed today by researchers at CybelAngel, the images were found as part of a six-month investigation of data storage systems used by healthcare organizations including scanning 4.3 billion IP addresses for insecure services. The investigation specifically targeted network-attached storage and ...

Productivity platform startup ClickUp said today it has raised $100 million in new funding on a valuation reported to be $1 billion, giving the company co-called unicorn status for the first time. The Series B round was led by Georgian and included Craft Ventures. Including the new funding, ClickUp has raised $135 million to date. Founded in ...

More details continue to emerge on the hack of software from SolarWinds WorldWide LLC used by the U.S. government and others as Microsoft Corp. today moved to protect customers from the compromise. The hack, first reported Sunday and blamed on Russian state-sponsored hackers, came about after SolarWinds pushed compromised software to some 18,000 of its customers ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is under threat again in its home state of California after a judge fined the company $59 million today and gave the company 30 days to pay the fine or lose its operating license. The fine and threat came about after Uber allegedly failed to answer the California Public Utility Commission’s questions in ...

The hack of the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments, first reported Sunday to involve Russian state-sponsored hackers, today was officially attributed to the compromise of software from SolarWinds Worldwide LLC. As previously reported by SiliconANGLE, SolarWinds software is used by large parts of the U.S. government including the U.S. military, the Pentagon, the State Department, the Justice Department, the National Aeronautics ...

The U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments have been attacked by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government, according to multiple reports today. The hack, according to The Washington Post, came from advanced persistent threat group 29, also known in cybersecurity circles as Cozy Bear. That’s the same Russian linked group that was targeting COVID-19 ...

Amazon.com Inc. today announced a new program designed to train 29 million people to work in cloud computing by 2025. The idea behind the program is to reskill people to be able to find jobs in the information age in which cloud computing, complete with online commerce dominates as millions have lost their jobs due ...