Uber Technologies Inc. is moving into software, signing its first deal to provide its booking technology to a Californian public transport provider. Under the deal, signed today with Marin County on a software-as-a-service basis, the county north of San Francisco will use Uber’s technology for its Marin Connect service. The service, set to launch in ...

Artificial intelligence financial technology startup Pagaya Technologies Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $102 million in new funding partly to move into new asset classes. The Series D round was led by GIC and included Aflac Global Ventures, Poalim Capital Markets, Viola, Oak HC/FT, Clal Insurance, GF Investments and Siam Commercial Bank. Founded in 2016, Pagaya ...

A series of newly discovered vulnerabilities in “internet of things” devices opens the door to hackers to gain access to both consumer and enterprise devices. That’s according to a new report by security researchers at JSOF. The vulnerabilities, dubbed Ripple20, total 19 and relate to the Treck TCP/IP stack, a TCP/IP protocol suite designed for embedded systems. The ...

The founder of a company that raised $32 million in an illegal initial coin offering has pleaded guilty to committing securities and wire fraud. Centra Tech launched in 2017 with a veritable checklist of blockchain-related products, including a cryptocurrency wallet, a linked payment card, an online marketplace to buy goods with digital assets, a cryptocurrency exchange platform ...

High-end electronics company Bose Corp. is abandoning its augmented reality program 18 months after it launched glasses that use audio for interactive service delivery. Bose’s “Frames,” launched in December 2018 were described at the time as the “world’s first audio augmented reality platform.” The glasses were said to take “micro-acoustics and voice control to an entirely new level, debuting ...

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. today launched a new public health transformation platform built on Salesforce that’s designed to help state and local governments modernize public health infrastructure in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. Called GovConnect, the platform is designed to help organizations and governments chart a path forward through thought leadership, accelerators and assets ...

Australian enterprise cybersecurity firm Kasada Pty Ltd. announced today it has raised $10 million in new funding to fuel its expansion into the U.S., develop new products and build out its sales and marketing team. The Series B round was led by Ten Eleven Ventures and included Main Sequence Ventures and Reinventure. Ten Eleven Managing Partner Alex Doll has ...

A new venture capital fund has been established with an aim to raise €100 million ($113 million) to invest in blockchain startups. Called Meta Change Capital, the fund was established by Nikola Stojanow, co-founder of æternity blockchain and the creator of AE Ventures investment firm, to focus on funding blockchain development in emerging markets. “I see ...

Tween retailer Claire’s Stores Inc. is the latest victim of a Magecart attack in which the payment details of customers were stolen. Discovered by security researchers at Sansec BV and published today, the attack began in the last week of April and was present through June 13. Magecart is a form of attack that hijacks customer ...

The records of hundreds of thousands of users of a range of niche data apps have been exposed online in the latest case of a misconfigured cloud instance. Discovered by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor and published today, the 845 gigabytes of data containing 2.5 million records related to dating apps, including ...