PayPal Inc. today said it has acquired Honey Science Corp., a web browser extension and coupon site, for $4 billion in a mostly cash deal. Founded in 2012, Honey pitches itself as a site that helps people make smarter choices when they shop online. The company primarily offers a browser extension that helps shoppers by ...

A final report by the National Transportation Safety Board into the fatal crash involving an Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving vehicle in Tempe, Arizona, in March 2018 has found that the safety driver was primarily at fault but also criticized other aspects of the company’s self-driving car testing program. Interim findings leaked earlier this month found that ...

Macy’s Inc. is the latest company to be hacked in an apparent “Magecart” attack resulting in customer credit card details stolen from its website. The hack was first detected on Oct. 15, though it’s believed to have taken place Oct. 7 when “unauthorized” code injected in the checkout pages and wallet page of Macys.com. Data ...

Business email compromise cybersecurity startup Abnormal Security Corp. launched its services today with a Series A funding round of $24 million led by Greylock Partners. Founded in 2018 by Evan Reiser and Sanjay Jeyakumar, both previously employees of Twitter Inc., Abnormal Security has built a data science and behavioral analysis platform designed to protect organizations from sophisticated, targeted ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Teams online collaboration service has now passed 20 million daily active users, causing stock in rival Slack Inc. to plunge Tuesday. An increase of just over 50% on the 13 million users Teams had in July, the figure is notable not only because the service continues to grow rapidly ...

A newly revealed flaw in camera apps used by Android devices allows other apps to spy on users. Even though both Google LLC and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. released patches to fix the issue, the vulnerability may also exist in devices made by other manufacturers. Detailed today by security researchers at Checkmarx Ltd., the vulnerability was ...

Salesforce.com Inc. today announced a variety of new features and services at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco aimed at helping companies improve interactions with customers. Leading the announcements are new declarative tools that are designed to allow any developer or administrator to build customized voice assistants for employees across any role or industry. Called ...

Criminals in the San Francisco Bay Area are using Bluetooth to identify valuables in cars. Wired reported today that criminals are using Bluetooth scanners to identify vehicles with phones, laptops and other devices with Bluetooth turned on. Having detected those devices, the criminals then break into the vehicles to steal them. In a twist, the very same ...

A week after launching, Disney+, the online subscription streaming service from the Walt Disney Company has been hacked and thousands of users found their account details compromised. The compromised accounts are being sold for between $3 and $11 each on the dark web, ZDNet reported Saturday, but the how they were compromised remains officially unknown. Disney+ users started ...

Apple Inc. today announced a press event for Dec. 2 in New York City “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019” at which it could reveal a new product. Or not. The best guess at this stage — and guessing is where the tech press is at as the announcement was completely unexpected — is that ...