Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg told a conference in Germany Saturday that he believes online content should be regulated but Facebook itself should sit somewhere between a telecommunications company and a traditional media publisher when it comes to scrutiny. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany as part of a planned trip to Europe ...

The government of Puerto Rico has lost $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam. According to an Associated Press report Wednesday, the scam targeted the government-owned Industrial Development Co. Those behind the attack tricked the company into making several payments to a fraudulent account. The government did not provide details, but it’s believed that the ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is running a trial for a new service in Arizona that allows users to book an Uber vehicle by making a telephone call. Designed “with older adults in mind,” those wanting to book an Uber vehicle with using the Uber app can dial 1-833-USE-UBER and be connected to a live operator to make ...

Cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi Lending LLC said today it has raised $30 million in new funding to hire more people and expand its current range of product offerings. The Series B round was led by Valar Ventures and included Morgan Creek Digital, PJC, Akuna Capital, CMT Digital, Avon Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Purple Arch Ventures, Kenetic Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Arrington ...

Data warehouse virtualization startup Datometry Inc. today said it has raised $17 million in new funding to accelerate go-to-market activities with its partners Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud Platform as well as select systems integrators. The Series B round was led by WRVI Capital and included Nepenthe, Dell Technologies Capital, Redline Capital ...

Google LLC will start requiring users of its Nest smart home devices to use two-factor authentication in a move the company describes as providing more protection for Nest accounts. The introduction of compulsory 2FA will start to roll out in the spring to customers who have not yet enrolled in the option or migrated to a Google ...

Antivirus firm Avast Software s.r.o., the owner of popular free products such as AVG and Avast Antivirus, is under investigation in its home country, the Czech Republic, for allegedly selling the browser history of its users to outside companies. The allegations that Avast was harvesting user browser history and selling it via a subsidiary called Jumpshot Inc. surfaced ...

Facebook Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp has passed 2 billion users, becoming the third app to pass the mark after the Facebook app and the YouTube app. To put the number in perspective, there are currently 7.8 billion on the planet, meaning that more than a quarter of the world uses WhatsApp. Despite never gaining wide ...

Some 440 million records in a database belonging to cosmetics maker Estée Lauder Companies Inc. have been found unsecured and exposed online, potentially putting customers at risk. The database was discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler from Security Discovery Jan. 30 and publicized today. It involved 440,336,852 individual pieces of data, including plaintext email addresses, some sent ...

Despite beating analyst predictions in its fourth-quarter earnings Monday, shares in Lyft Inc. dropped in after-hours trading after the company failed to move up its profitability timeline as rival Uber Technologies Inc. did Feb. 6. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, Lyft reported revenue of $1.02 billion, up 52% from the same quarter of 2018 ...