Southeast Asian ride-hailing companies Grab Taxi Pte Ltd. and Gojek are reportedly in merger talks on a deal being pushed by SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son. Grab, which is partially owned by Uber Technologies Inc. following Uber’s exit from the Southeast Asian market in 2018, is the region’s leading ride-hailing company. Gojek (formally PT Aplikasi ...

Despite Oracle Corp. confirming today that it had signed on as a “trusted technology partner” with ByteDance Ltd. for popular short video sharing app TikTok, the deal remains in doubt given that it did not include Oracle purchasing TikTok U.S. Exactly what “trusted technology partner” means in terms of the deal remains a mystery, a ...

Users of some Google LLC Pixel smartphones are complaining online that the batteries in their phones are swelling in what could potentially be a design issue with the phones. The issue is being primarily reported by users of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones, although some users are also reporting similar issues with ...

A database belonging to an online marketing company has been found exposed online, with most of the records relating to users of adult dating websites. Discovered by researchers at vpnMentor and publicized today, the 882-gigabyte database was traced to a company called Mailfire that primarily offers email marketing tools along with complementary services such as ...

Oracle Corp. reportedly has beaten Microsoft Corp. in a bidding war for the U.S. operations of TikTok, but in a catch, the deal may not include the sale of the popular short-video app. The Wall Street Journal, quoting a person familiar with the deal, said today that Oracle is set to be announced as TikTok’s “trusted ...

After several months of speculation that a deal was being discussed, it’s now official: Nvidia Corp. has acquired Arm Holdings Ltd. from owner SoftBank Group Corp. in a $40 billion deal that’s one of the largest in technology this year. Under the terms of the deal announced today, Nvidia will pay $21.5 billion in stock and $12 billion ...

More than 100,000 customer records belonging to Razer Inc. have been found exposed online in yet another case of a company failing to secure its online storage. Discovered and publicized today by security researcher Bob Diachenko, the exposed data included full names, emails, phone numbers, customer internal IDs, order numbers, order details, billing and shipping addresses. Razer, ...

Property technology startup Open Door Labs Inc. is set to go public via a merger with an existing listed company, according to a report today from Bloomberg. Quoting people with knowledge with the matter, the report claims that Opendoor is looking to merge with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II. Social Capital is listed on the New ...

Election hacking is back in the news: Microsoft Corp. today warned that state-sponsored hacking groups are targeting both the Trump and the Biden U.S. presidential campaigns. The advisory from Microsoft points the finger at three countries — Russia, China and Iran — as being behind attacks, said to be targeting “people and organizations involved in the upcoming ...

Container and Kubernetes threat detection startup StackRox Inc. announced today it has raised $26.5 million in new funding to expand in key geographies and support research and development efforts. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures. As part of the deal, Menlo Ventures partner Venky ...