Reddit Inc. has raised $300 million in new venture capital funding on a valuation of $3 billion in a bid to challenge Google LLC and Facebook Inc. in advertising. The Series D round was led Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. and included Sequoia Capital, Fidelity, Andreessen Horowitz, Quiet Capital and the rapper Snoop Dogg. The $3 billion valuation ...

The decline in iPhone sales is accelerating as Apple Inc. sees its sales plunge in China, previously one of its biggest markets, thanks to its high-price strategy. Apple reported a 19.9 percent decline in shipments in China in the fourth quarter, according to figures from IDC Inc. reported by the South China Morning Post. While Apple’s ...

LinkedIn is rolling out a new video streaming feature that gives people and organizations the ability to broadcast real-time video to other users of the service. First reported by TechCrunch, the LinkedIn Live service is initially launching in beta only in the U.S. on an invite-only basis. In coming weeks, LinkedIn will post a contact form ...

The price of bitcoin surged by as much as 8 percent over the weekend in what may either be a temporary blip or the end of the cryptocurrency’s longest-ever bear run. The turnaround started on Friday with bitcoin going from $3,353.58 to $3,657.34 before settling down in a trading band mostly above $3,580. Described as ...

Security researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in networked refrigeration used by supermarkets and hospitals that could allow a hacker to change temperature settings. Detailed by researchers from Safety Detective Thursday, the vulnerability allows for remote attacks from the internet because many owners fail to change default passwords or implement other security measures. Using the Shodan search ...

Google LLC has started rolling out a new augmented reality feature in Google Maps to some users after first teasing the technology at its I/O conference in May. The feature allows users to point their device and have Google Maps overlay the direction they need to walk. Although there have been various apps over the years ...

A vulnerability in Google LLC’s Android operating system can allow hackers to hijack a device by simply displaying an infected PNG image file. The vulnerability, found in Android 7.0 Nougat through to Android 9.0 Pie, was first disclosed by Google in an Android Security Bulletin published Feb. 4. Google was reserved in providing specific details ...

In yet another case of cloud storage misconfiguration, private pictures shared by users of gay dating app Jack’d have been found exposed to all and sundry on an Amazon Web Services Inc. instance. Jack’d is a gay dating app that connects gay guys wanting to meet or hookup worldwide with more than 1 million downloads from the ...

Shares in Twitter dropped by nearly 10 percent in trading today as the company revealed another drop in user numbers and said it expects expenses to rise. The data came from Twitter’s fourth-quarter financial results, which beat market expectations in terms of revenue and profit. For the fourth quarter, Twitter booked revenue of $909 million versus ...

Autonomous network security startup Netography Inc. said today it has raised $2.6 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz as it emerges from stealth mode. Founded last year by Barrett Lyon (pictured), a pioneer in distributed denial-of-service mitigation, and Dan Murphy, a 20-year security industry veteran, Neography is pitching itself an enterprise security “Eye in the ...