German flying taxi startup Volocopter GmbH said today it has raised €50 million ($55.1 million) in new funding to assist it to bring its aircraft to commercial launch in the next three years. The Series C round was led by Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd. and included Daimler AG. Geely is best known ...

Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn lost an appeal Monday against a company that scrapes its member data in a case that could have implications for privacy laws and fair use across the internet. The case related to an analytics and data science machine learning company called hiQ Labs Inc. that scrapes data from public profiles of LinkedIn users ...

Users of the popular Exim email server software are being urged to update their installations following the discovery a vulnerability that can allow hackers to install malicious code with root privileges. The vulnerability is found in all versions of Exim up to and including 4.92.1 with 4.92.2 released Friday night to address the vulnerability. The vulnerability, ...

Wikipedia was offline across several countries in Europe and the Middle East Friday after the popular online encyclopedia was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia did not go into a lot of details about the attack but implied that it may have been a politically ...

Bug bounty startup HackerOne Inc. has raised $36.4 million in new funding to expand globally and scale up enterprise and data-powered offerings. The Series D round was led by Valor Equity Partners and included previous investors Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Dragoneer Investment Group and EQT Ventures. As part of the funding round, David Obrand, partner at Valor Equity Partners, is joining ...

A database containing resumes from job seekers including those from recruitment site Monster Worldwide Inc. has been found exposed online in what is likely another case of a misconfigured cloud instance or server. The exact numbers are not known, but the resumes are said to include job applicants from 2014 to 2017 and could potentially total tens of ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Galaxy Fold folding phone is back. The company announced Thursday that the phone will go on sale in South Korea Sept. 6, with other select countries to follow in the coming weeks. The troubled phone, first announced in February, was withdrawn from its scheduled release in April when units sent to tech reviewers ...

Apple Inc. is working on in-screen fingerprint scanning technology for its next iPhone models as it desperately attempts to keep up with Android phones. The report by Bloomberg also noted that although at this stage the technology may debut in 2020, it may be pushed out to 2021 because of issues with suppliers. Apple was one ...

Payment processing technology startup Stripe Inc. today entered business lending with a new service that offers loans to online companies in the United States. Called Stripe Capital, the lending service launches today with an integrated cash advance service. Loan applications are assessed using Stripe’s existing customer data, negating the need for a lengthy application process. Stripe said ...

Cloud-based legal technology firm Clio Wednesday said it has raised $250 million in new funding, possibly the largest venture capital round in Canadian history. The Series D round was led by TCV and JMI Equity. The funding is a significant financial boost for a company that had previously only raised $26 million, including a $6 million round in 2012. ...