German auto manufacturer BMW AG is the new surprise entry to the ride-hailing market as the company launched a luxury car service in Seattle today that competes directly with Uber Black and Lyft Lux. The service, bundled as part of BMW’s ReachNow car sharing program — which in turn allows users to rent a car ...

Less than a week after Microsoft Corp. announced a free version of its Teams service, Slack Technologies Inc. today said it has acquired an app that allows its users to build tools to automate simple routines without code. The move is an effort by the team software communications startup to keep ahead of its most ...

21st Century Fox Inc., Major League Baseball and Epic Games Inc., the maker of Fortnite, the Battle Royale game that is currently the most popular game online, said today they’re deepening their use of Amazon Web Services Inc. in a boost for Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud services arm. Fox, soon to be a division of the ...

Japanese messaging giant LINE Corp. Monday joined the cryptocurrency bandwagon, launching a cryptocurrency exchange called BITBOX. First reported as coming in June, BITBOX offers 28 types of coins that can be traded in 54 pairs: three in USDT, the Tether stablecoin, 26 in bitcoin and 25 Ethereum pairs. Supported cryptocurrencies include bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Ripple XRP, Litecoin, Ethereum ...

Content delivery network startup Fastly Inc. today said it has raised a late-stage funding round of $40 million as it heads to a likely initial public offering next year. The Series F round was led by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and included Sozo Ventures, Swisscom Ventures and unnamed existing investors. The money is planned to be used to allow ...

Nine months out from a likely launch date, the rumor mill has started on Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next flagship Galaxy S10 — and after disappointing S9 sales, it’s looking like it might be a winner. The spec rumors come from well-regarded analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who claims the S10 will come in three different models: ...

Coinbase Inc. said Friday that it was looking at adding support for five new cryptocurrencies to its exchange service as it continues to grow its service into more obscure coins and tokens. The company, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. market, occasionally considers adding support from new cryptocurrencies from time to time. But after ...

A woman who ran a trading operation that offered bitcoins for sale in return for cash has been sentenced to 366 days in prison on money laundering charges. Theresa Lynn Tetley, a 50-year-old former stockbroker from Southern California, was alleged to offer cash for bitcoins under the name of “Bitcoin Maven” via the Localbitcoins.com peer-to-peer ...

A failure to protect online data has resulted in the exposure of approximately 200,000 protected health information records from Arkansas-based practice cloud management software provider Medevole LLC. The data breach involved Medevole leaving a backup database of customer data from Premier Immediate Medical Care LLC, a healthcare provider with outlets in Pennsylvania and Delaware, on an FTP ...

The U.S. Department of Justice today lodged an appeal against a ruling by a District Court judge June 12 that overruled an earlier ban against AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. In the notice of appeal lodged with the Court of Appeals, the Justice Department did not specify the grounds for the appeal. But it ...