Popular online stock trading app Robinhood Market Inc. was down today on a day when markets rallied following their coronavirus-inspired plunge last week. Why the app was offline is unknown, but it affected all Robinhood users, including iOS, Android and web apps starting Monday morning and extending through the entire trading day. Of all the days for ...

Waymo LLC, the self-driving car division of Alphabet Inc. today said it has raised $2.25 billion in its first external fundraising round to develop out its self -driving technology. The round, which came just shy of a year after it was reported that Alphabet was looking for outside investors, was led Silver Lake, Canada Pension ...

Despite claims that the price of bitcoin would continue to rise this year as a “safe haven” asset at a time equities markets are concerned about the spread of coronavirus, the opposite has instead occurred. After breaking through $10,000 Feb. 9 and then peaking at $10,474.20 Feb. 18, bitcoin has plummeted, returning to levels last seen ...

Railroad construction and maintenance firm Railworks Corp. has disclosed a ransomware attack that may have also resulted in the breach of personally identifiable information. The attack took place on Jan. 27 and email notifications were sent to those affected by the attack between Jan. 30 and Feb. 7. Data potentially stolen in the attack included names, addresses, ...

Updated: More tech conferences have been canceled and major tech companies have restricted employee travel as the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe. The last major conference to be postponed or canceled because of COVID-19 is the Game Developers Conference scheduled to begin in San Francisco on March 16. Questions around whether the event would go ahead ...

A former Microsoft Corp. engineer has been found guilty of stealing $10 million in digital currency from the company. Ukrainian national Volodymyr Kvashuk, a resident of Renton, Washington, was convicted on five separate counts of wire fraud, six counts of money laundering and seven other charges in relation to his theft of funds. Kvashuk worked ...

Ford Motor Co.-owned electric scooter-sharing company Spin is expanding internationally with plans to launch in Europe in the next year. The company will initially launch its first international fleet in Cologne, Germany, in the northern spring with other German cities to follow. Spin is also applying for an e-scooter share permit in France and will ...

DocuSign Inc. today announced it will acquire artificial intelligence-powered contract analytics company Seal Software Ltd. for $188 million in an all-cash deal. Founded in 2010, Seal develops contract discovery and contract management software solutions. Using user-driven machine learning and natural language processing, the company’s software allows users to find contracts of any type across their ...

A new version of the Cerberus banking malware has been found with a feature that allows it to steal Google Authenticator two-factor authentication codes, a serious security threat for users. Google Authenticator is a software-based authenticator that offers 2FA keys to access accounts. How many companies use the service is not known, but it is popular particularly with ...

No-code application development startup Unqork Inc. said today it has raised $51 million in additional funding to further build out its application platform. The funding is an extension of its Series B round announced in November and included Goldman Sachs, Aquiline Technology Growth and World Innovation Lab. CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., led the ...