Apple Inc. may be famed for many innovations and occasionally cutting-edge technology, but self-driving cars is not one of them, according to a filing the company made with the State of California. Detailed in a release from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, Apple’s autonomous vehicles ranked poorly in terms of safety, requiring human intervention nearly every ...

VFEmail, a service that pitches itself as “making email safe for the masses,” has suffered a “catastrophic” hack that destroyed all email and related data stored by the company dating back to 2011. The hack took place Monday with no attempt of extortion or other intent other than the malicious deletion of the data hosted by the ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. has acquired the software assets of cloud applications management startup Adya Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Adya provides software to help enterprises manage and secure their software-as-a-service applications. The company’s software allows companies to administer their critical SaaS applications from one console, save costs on SaaS licenses, set and ...

Blockchain analysis startup Chainalysis Inc. said today it has raised $30 million in new funding to support strategic product development of new cryptocurrency usage and to open an office in London. The Series B round was led by Accel and included an additional investment from Benchmark Capital, which led the company’s last round in April. Under the deal, Accel’s Philippe Botteri is ...

U.S. drone owners would be required to display registration number markings on the body of their drones under a new Federal Aircraft Administration regulation. The new rules were posted today on a preview website for the Federal Register spotted by Bloomberg and would take effect starting Feb. 23. The FAA is said to be taking ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup PerimeterX Inc. said today it has raised $43 million in new funding to expand its product portfolio to address growing information security risks facing enterprises. The Series C round was led by Scale Venture Partners and included Canaan Partners, Vertex Ventures, Data Collective and Adams Street Partners. Founded in 2014 and with offices ...

Reddit Inc. has raised $300 million in new venture capital funding on a valuation of $3 billion in a bid to challenge Google LLC and Facebook Inc. in advertising. The Series D round was led Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. and included Sequoia Capital, Fidelity, Andreessen Horowitz, Quiet Capital and the rapper Snoop Dogg. The $3 billion valuation ...

The decline in iPhone sales is accelerating as Apple Inc. sees its sales plunge in China, previously one of its biggest markets, thanks to its high-price strategy. Apple reported a 19.9 percent decline in shipments in China in the fourth quarter, according to figures from IDC Inc. reported by the South China Morning Post. While Apple’s ...

LinkedIn is rolling out a new video streaming feature that gives people and organizations the ability to broadcast real-time video to other users of the service. First reported by TechCrunch, the LinkedIn Live service is initially launching in beta only in the U.S. on an invite-only basis. In coming weeks, LinkedIn will post a contact form ...

The price of bitcoin surged by as much as 8 percent over the weekend in what may either be a temporary blip or the end of the cryptocurrency’s longest-ever bear run. The turnaround started on Friday with bitcoin going from $3,353.58 to $3,657.34 before settling down in a trading band mostly above $3,580. Described as ...