Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car startup Waymo LLC is seeking outside investors, according to an unconfirmed report published Monday. The Information, referencing a person with direct knowledge of the situation, claimed the startup is seeking financing from European automakers such as Volkswagen AG. The report also said the attempt to raise outside money suggests Alphabet may be seeking ...

Security researchers have discovered terabytes of data from over 90 companies exposed by employees sharing publicly available links to Box Inc.’s cloud storage platform. In an issue detailed today by cybersecurity firm Adversis LLC, the data and documents had all been uploaded to Box Enterprise accounts then shared via links by employees, making them publicly viewable by anyone ...

Apple Inc. has sent out invitations for an event March 25 where it’s expected to debut a new streaming video and television service along with a news subscription service. All but confirming that the streaming product is coming, Apple promoted the event with a film-style countdown followed by an Apple logo with the words “It’s show time” ...

So-called smart car alarms are supposed to make vehicles more difficult to steal, but newly published research has found that alarms made by two companies actually make stealing a car easier. The research, released Friday, comes via Pen Test partners, which studied a range of third-party smart car alarms for security vulnerabilities. Smart car alarm ...

Australia search and language data services firm Appen Ltd. today said it has acquired rival Figure Eight Inc. for $175 million upfront with an additional earn-out payment of up to $125 million in 2020 based on performance. To fund the deal, Appen has announced an AU$285 million ($200 million) fundraising targeted at institutional investors, according to The Australian ...

Citrix Systems Inc. informed customers on Friday that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation told the company that hackers gained access to its systems and stole data. While not providing much in the way of details, Citrix said that it had taken “action to contain this incident,” including launching a forensic investigation as well as ...

Facebook Inc. filed a lawsuit Friday against two Ukrainian developers who allegedly created Facebook apps and browser extensions that scrapped user data and injected third-party ads. The accused, Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov, are claimed to have promoted quizzes on Facebook, but when users clicked through, they were taken to an external site. On those sites, ...

Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessible database belonging to an email validation firm that contained a nearly 800 million email addresses along with other data. The discovery was made by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia Feb. 25 on a misconfigured MongoDB database but only made public today. The database in question belongs to a ...

While general cryptocurrency markets have remained sluggish this year, one cryptocurrency is bucking the trend, doubling in price over the last month. That would be Binance Coin, a coin originally designed to facilitate trades on Binance Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, but notably also freely tradable on other exchanges. Binance Coin is ...

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming that the ban against its equipment being offered for government contracts in unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Plano, Texas argues specifically that Section 889 of the 2019 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits government agencies from ...