Copying an experiment that started with Instagram in July, Facebook Inc. is testing hiding the number of “likes,” reactions and views that a post gets. Starting with users in Australia, the social media giant is seeking to measure if the change encourages more meaningful interactions on its platform. As with a similar Instagram trial which ...

Food delivery service provider DoorDash Inc. has suffered a data breach and the records of some 4.9 million customers, delivery providers and merchants have been stolen. DoorDash said the breach, which was detected May 4, involved unauthorized activity on a third-party service provider. The data only related to customers, delivery providers and merchants who had joined ...

Cloud-based encryption software company StrongSalt said today it has raised $3 million in seed funding from Valley Capital Partners to build out its encryption platform-as-a-service offering for developers and enterprises. Founded in 2017 in Sunnyvale, California, StrongSalt, formally named Overnest Inc., is developing an encrypted search and share protocol that offers an application programming interface platform to allow ...

Exposing user data on unsecured cloud storage has become a broken record this year, one that won’t stop playing. The latest one came today from Heyyo, an online adult dating app. Discovered and publicized today by security researchers at WizCase, the breach involved Heyyo data found exposed on an unsecured Elasticsearch database. The data involved 77,000 ...

Updated: Connected fitness technology firm Peloton Interactive Inc. Wednesday set its initial public offering price at $29 per share ahead of its debut on the Nasdaq exchange, but investors weren’t all that impressed when shares debuted Thursday morning. Priced at the high end of its original price estimate of $26 to $29 per share, the IPO saw Peloton ...

Dropbox Inc. today launched a new desktop app complete with a new look in an attempt to expand its appeal to a broader audience. The new app includes Dropbox Spaces, a smart workplace that is not cloud storage alone. It comes with new collaborative working features that allow for shared team work spaces that connect ...

Bitcoin suffered its biggest drop in 20 months Tuesday, plunging to its lowest price since June as a drop below the major support level of $9,000 triggered a wave of selling. Starting 24 hours ago at around $9,700, bitcoin dropped to a low of $8,019.73 at 3:45 p.m. EDT according to Coindesk’s bitcoin price tracker although on ...

A spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. utility companies is larger than previously thought and continues to operate, according to a new report Monday from security firm Proofpoint Inc. The campaign, dubbed LookBack when it was discovered in August, involves targeting utility company employees with spear-phishing emails, which pretend to be from a certification test administrator. The emails include a ...

Artificial intelligence startup Fiddler Labs Inc. said today it has raised $10.2 million in new funding to build out its AI Engine. The Series A round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lux Capital and included Haystack Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. Founded last October by Krishna Gade (pictured, right), formerly an engineer manager at ...

Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Acquia Inc., a Boston-based provider of services for sites running the Drupal content management framework. The purchase price for the deal, announced today, was not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegged it at an even $1 billion. The deal is said to provide Acquia with operational expertise to accelerate ...