Digital asset startup Bakkt LLC, the brainchild of New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc. said today it has raised $300 million in new funding at a time cryptocurrency markets are tanking on coronavirus fears. The Series B round included Intercontinental Exchange, Microsoft’s M12, PayU, Boston Consulting Group, Goldfinch Partners, CMT Digital and Pantera Capital. ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 10 operating system has finally passed the 1 billion active devices mark four years and eight months after its launch. “Today we’re delighted to announce that over 1 billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 200 countries resulting in more than 1 billion active Windows 10 devices,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president, ...

The Chromium-based Blisk browser for web developers has suffered a data leak, with the records of 2.9 million users exposed via a misconfigured online database. Discovered late last week by security researchers at vpnMentor, the data was exposed by a misconfigured Elasticsearh database. The database included 3.4 gigabytes of records and included email addresses, IP addresses and user-agent details. ...

Amazon.com Inc. is reporting supply shortages of household goods because of panic buying caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. In a blog post directed at customers, Amazon said that “you will notice that we are currently out of stock on some popular brands and items, especially in household staples categories.” The company also said the ...

Apple Inc. has closed all of its global stores outside mainland China until March 27 because of coronavirus contagion fears as the company attempts to respond to arguably the biggest global health crisis in a century. Apple, which announced the move on Friday, said in a statement that it’s also moving to flexible work arrangements ...

The price of bitcoin crashed nearly 50% from a day ago to below $4,000 today as cryptocurrency markets suffered even worse than equity markets from the coronavirus-related economic turmoil sweeping the globe. Bitcoin started the day at above $7,000, down from its peak of more than $10,000 less than a month ago. Coronavirus concerns started ...

Already facing a delay of its initial public offering, things are going from bad to worse to Airbnb Inc. Now the company being sued by International Business Machines Corp. and newly leaked financials suggest its losses were worsening even before the impact of COVID-19. IBM filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

Shares in Adobe Inc. failed to move in after-hours trading after the software company delivered solid first-quarter earnings and offered guidance close to analysts’ expectations. For its first quarter ended Feb. 28, Adobe reported revenue rose 19%, to $3.09 billion, from a year ago. Net profit was $955 million, or $1.96 a share or $2.27 adjusted ...

Shares in Slack Technologies Inc. plunged nearly 20% in after-hours trading Thursday after the provider of online team collaboration services issued a lower-than-expected first-quarter forecast because of coronavirus concerns. For the fourth quarter ended Jan. 31, Slack’s revenue rose 49%, to $181.9 million, from the same quarter in 2018. That beat average analysts’ prediction of $174.1 million. Calculated ...

Hackers are once again taking advantage of concerns of COVID-19 by using fake coronavirus maps to infect visitors with malware. Detailed Monday by cybersecurity researcher Shai Alfasi from Reason Cybersecurity Ltd., the fake maps were founded to be attempting to infect unsuspecting visitors with the AZORult malware. The malware, first discovered in 2016, is an information stealer that ...