Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance Ltd. today added support for credit and debit cards, making it one of the few leading exchanges that offer the service. The largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, Binance said it’s adding support via a partnership with payment processing company SimplexCC Ltd. Available from today for all Binance users, the feature can be accessed via the funds ...

Apple Inc. has retaken second place in global smartphone sales despite a slowing market and an overall decline in sales, according to two new sets of figures. Both International Data Corp. and Counterpoint Technology Market Research Inc. released their estimates of smartphone sales for the fourth quarter, showing Apple leapfrogged Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., which had ...

Two weeks after a massive database of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million plain text passwords was found online, the group behind the release has shared even more data, bringing the total pieces of data available to nearly 3 billion. The new databases, Collections #2 through to #5, are being shared on hacker forums and ...

On-demand goods storage startup Clutter Inc. is in the process of raising a new round of up to $250 million from SoftBank, according to a report today from TechCrunch. Sometimes described as the Uber of storage, the Culver City, California company offers a service that allows users to store extra belongings without leaving their house. Users access an ...

Updated: Apple Inc. today revoked Google LLC’s Enterprise Developer Program certificate following a similar move against Facebook Inc. earlier in the week. The certificates are used to run applications outside of the iOS App Store for testing purposes and for internal applications. Update: TechCrunch reported late Thursday that Apple had restored the apps. In Google’s case, ...

Google LLC has finally given a date for the closure of its failed Facebook competitor Google+: April 2. Launched in June 2011, Google+ was Google’s last attempt to establish a social media network. The service did offer some unique features, though most of them were adapted from FriendFeed, a company Google acquired in 2009. The demise ...

Apple Inc. is set to abandon its Lightning port for the industry-standard USB-C on its next range of iPhones, if the latest reports turn out to be true. Reports surrounding the iPhone XI range surfaced Dec. 31, with later reports Jan. 11 suggesting that the next incarnation of the phone will have three rear-facing cameras. Although every new ...

Following in the footsteps of rival Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reported declining sales and a drop in profit in its fourth-quarter earnings today. Coming off a record profit in the third quarter of 2018, Samsung reported an operating profit 10.8 trillion won ($9.7 billion) in the quarter, down 29 percent from the previous ...

A new report from SophosLabs released today details a new form of ransomware that has been flying under the radar until now. Dubbed Matrix, the ransomware is unique in that it targets a single machine rather than spreading through an organization like other forms of ransomware. In addition, the attackers also force the victim to message ...

An unknown number of accounts belonging to Discover Financial Services Inc. have been stolen, according to a filing from the company with the State of California. First reported Monday by Bleeping Computer, Discover said in the filing that it had detected a data breach on Aug. 13. The filing, which is required under California law when ...