Bitcoin payment solutions startup BitPay Inc. said today it has added support for XRP, allowing merchants to accept Ripple Labs Inc.’s cryptocurrency as a form of online payment. The support for XRP comes via a partnership between BitPay and Xpring, Ripple’s investment subsidiary, and includes full support for the cryptocurrency in the BitPay wallet to ...

Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. said today it has acquired privately held cloud continual visibility firm Cloudvisory LLC for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, Cloudvisory offers a platform that provides continuous visibility, compliance and security policy governance solutions for cloud, hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. The platform offers a centralized security management service with support for auditing, compliance ...

In response to California’s new gig-economy law, Uber Technologies Inc. is experimenting with a new feature that allows some drivers to set their fares in the state. The experiment allows drivers who pick up passengers from airports in Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Sacramento to charge up to five times the fare set by Uber, according to ...

The hacking of Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018 is now being attributed to a Saudi prince, according to sources quoted by The Guardian. The report claims that Bezos’ phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message sent from the personal account of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The message, sent in May ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. today disclosed a data breach that involved the theft of highly sensitive data, including correspondence and information on government agencies and business partners. Although the Mitsubishi name may be best known in the West for its cars, Mitsubishi Electric is a separate division of the Mitsubishi Group of Companies that manufactures consumer ...

Password manager LastPass Inc. has suffered an outage that kept some users from accessing their accounts and hence their passwords. Reports of LastPass users being unable to access their account first emerged over the weekend on social media. Exactly what was involved with the outage is unknown, and it didn’t helped that LastPass initially denied there was an ...

Robotics technology startup Soft Robotics Inc. said today it has raised $23 million in new funding to further build out its growth strategy along with further technological development. The Series B round was co-led by Calibrate Ventures and Material Impact and included FANUC Corp., Honeywell, Hyperplane, Scale, Tekfen Ventures and Yamaha. Founded in 2013, Soft Robotics ...

Amazon.com Inc. is reported to be developing point of sale terminals that would accept a scan of a user’s hand to make a payment, according to The Wall Street Journal. The POS terminals would be placed in brick-and-mortar stores and would negate the need for customers to present a physical card to make a payment. Amazon is ...

A new vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer is being exploited in the wild, but though Microsoft Corp. is promising a fix, it may be weeks away. The vulnerability was disclosed by Microsoft Friday and was thought serious enough that it gained the attention of the U.S. Department Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency as well. The ...

Facebook Inc.- owned Instagram may be slowly backing away from its IGTV video service, removing the main access button for the service from the Instagram app. Launched in June 2018, IGTV initially differentiated itself from YouTube by only offering vertical videos, a format considered awful by some because it doesn’t capture the surroundings of the subject, but it’s apparently popular ...