Microsoft Corp. has finally revealed user numbers for its Teams service, likely confirming what was first reported in a survey in December: It’s now more popular than rival Slack Inc. More than 13 million people were using Microsoft Teams on a daily basis as of June, with more than 19 million people using the service weekly, Microsoft ...

Google LLC has become embroiled in a new privacy scandal after it was forced to admit today that audio captured by its smart assistant was leaked by a partner in the Netherlands to a news outlet. About 1,000 conversations captured by Google Assistant, which is used in Google Home smart speakers, Android devices and Chromebooks, were leaked to Belgian news ...

More companies went public or were acquired in the second quarter than in any single quarter in history. That’s according to data from the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor quarterly venture capital ecosystem report announced early Thursday. And for the first time ever as well, exits for a quarter surpassed $100 billion, bringing total venture-backed exit ...

Reports of dubious initial coin offerings targeted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are a dime a dozen, but a New York City-based company seeking to raise money in a token sale is making headlines for the right reason: It’s the first company to gain SEC approval for an ICO. Blockstack PBC, a startup ...

A newly discovered form of Android malware that changes code in legitimate apps to display fraudulent ads has been found on more than 25 million devices, according to a report today from security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Dubbed “Agent Smith” by the researchers after the villain who copies himself multiple times in “The Matrix” ...

U.S. President Donald Trump today ordered an investigation into a proposal from France to impose a tax on large tech companies, a move that could possibly spark a trade war between the U.S. and Europe. The French proposal, dubbed a digital services tax, would impose a 3% tax on the total annual revenue of large ...

Venture capital firm YL Ventures GP Ltd. has closed its fourth fund at $120 million. Specializing in seed-stage investing in Israeli cybersecurity startups, the fund is the first YL Ventures has raised since 2017 and brings the total capital under management for the firm to $260 million. The YLV IV fund will follow in the footsteps ...

The U.S. Coast Guard issued a safety alert on Monday warning ship operators to update their security following a “significant cyber incident” involving a vessel bound for the Port of New York and New Jersey in February. According to the warning, an interagency team of cyberexperts led by the Coast Guard was called on to ...

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office today announced that it intends to fine hotel chain Marriott International Inc. £99.2 million ($123.6 million) for a data breach in November that exposed the records of some 500 million customers. The hack had its roots in the Starwood hotels group starting in 2014, two years before it was acquired ...

Videoconferencing firm Zoom Video Communications Inc. today issued a fix for a vulnerability that could have allowed a hacker to hijack a webcam on a Mac computer via a malicious website. Detailed by security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, the vulnerability exploits a feature in the Mac Zoom client that allows users to join a videoconference by clicking on a ...