Alphabet Inc.- owned drone company Wing is setting its sites on Europe with the announcement that it will start a drone delivery service in Finland next spring. The service, to be based out of the country’s capital Helsinki, will see Wing match suppliers with customers of various items, although the list of what will be ...

High-end electronics maker Bose Corp. today jumped into the augmented reality market with the launch of glasses that use audio for interactive service delivery. Described as the “world’s first audio augmented reality platform,” Bose’s “Frames” are claimed to take “micro-acoustics and voice control to an entirely new level, debuting the future of mobile sound in the tiniest, ...

Artificial intelligence digital transformation startup FortressIQ Inc. today exited stealth mode with the announcement of $12 million in new funding. The Series A round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, comes on top of a seed round of $4 million last year from Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Founded in 2017, FortressIQ offers an online compliance and ...

More than 100 million user records have been stolen in a hack of the question-and-answer site Quora Inc. The hack, described by Quora Monday as “unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party,” occurred Nov. 30. It involved the theft of data that included names, email addresses, IP logs, user IDs, encrypted ...

Microsoft Corp. today doubled down on its efforts to win back users to its Skype messaging service with the deployment of artificial intelligence technology to provide live captions and subtitles in Skype calls. The new feature is said to work on the latest version of Skype for both one-on-one calls as well as group calls. Launched ...

Oath Inc.-owned microblogging site Tumblr today announced that it will be banning all “adult” content starting in mid-December in what effectively may be a decision by its owner to kill the longstanding service. Tumblr, founded in 2007 by David Karp, came of age in the early days of blogging as a company with a high ...

Bitcoin ended November down more than 37 percent in its worst performance in seven years, but after hitting a near two-year low, it’s now showing signs of a recovery. The cryptocurrency started November at $6,341, according to data from Coindesk, before hitting a low of $3,447.58 on Nov. 25. An end to the war over the future ...

A fight between YouTube star PewDiePie and an Indian YouTube channel has spilled into hacking, with an unknown person managing to print support messages on thousands of printers worldwide last week. For those unfamiliar with the battle, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg has long been the most popular YouTube channel by number of subscribers. But in the last ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks to acquire scooter-sharing startup Bird Rides Inc. and has also held talks with LimeBike Inc., according to an unconfirmed report. The Information, quoting several people briefed on the discussions, said in a report late Friday that the Bird acquisition talks may include a multibillion-dollar price tag. But in the event ...

Dell Inc. has reset all customer passwords in response to a hacking attempt on Nov. 9. In a statement Wednesday, Dell said it had detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to extract Dell.com customer information, which was limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords. Playing it safe, the computer systems maker added ...