Microsoft Corp. today released a number of new features for its Teams workplace collaboration service as it continues to grow in popularity against rival Slack Technologies Inc. The announcement started with an update on Teams growth numbers. Microsoft Teams is claimed to be the fastest-growing app in Microsoft history and now boasts of having 329,000 organizations ...

Apple Inc.’s on-again, off-again plans to launch a paid streaming video service to compete with Netflix Inc. is apparently on again but with a twist: It’s already censoring content before launching to avoid upsetting people. First reported Saturday by The Wall Street Journal, Apple is alleged to have killed “Vital Signs,” a series from hip-hop star and ...

Twitter Inc. has patched a vulnerability in one of its application programming interfaces that gave third parties access to direct messages and protected tweets. The so-called bug was discovered in Twitter’s Account Activity API, where it was introduced in May 2017. It allows registered developers to build tools that assist businesses in communicating with customers, ...

Updated with Paxos comment: Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies tied to tangible assets such as fiat currency, have been gaining more attention recently after two were recently given regulatory approval. Now the security of one is being questioned after a security “backdoor” opening was discovered in its code. The stablecoin in question is the Paxos Trust Co. LLC’s Paxos ...

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif is the latest to be hacked, reporting that 6.7 billion yen ($59.5 million) in crypto had been stolen from its service, including 5,966 bitcoins. The hack occurred on Sept. 14 over a two-hour period but was not detected until Sept. 17, when the exchange started to experience server problems. In a media ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks to acquire Roofoods Ltd., the U.K.-based food delivery startup better known by its trading name of Deliveroo. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the plans, claimed the talks between the two companies are only in an early stage and that an acquisition price is unknown. Founded in 2012, Deliveroo has rapidly ...

Adobe Systems Inc. today said it has acquired San Francisco-based marketing automation software firm Marketo Inc. for $4.75 billion, a week after rumors emerged the companies were in talks about a potential deal. Founded in 2006, Marketo offers a cloud-based marketing automation software solution that is designed for both growing small companies and global enterprises. Said to ...

Government Payment Service Inc., a company that offers a service called GovPayNow used by U.S. state and local governments, exposed 14 million records online. Discovered by security researcher Brian Krebs and revealed Tuesday, the breach included names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of the payer’s credit card going back six years. It ...

Confirming a well-documented trend this year, a new report from the Cyber Threat Alliance finds that illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged this year. The report, released today, analyzed customer data from alliance members and found that compared with 2017, illicit cryptomining, the process whereby hackers obtain access to a computer or network to install mining software, has ...

Google LLC now has the best-selling smart home speaker on the market as its Google Home Mini topped sales charts in the second quarter, according to new stats from Strategy Analytics. Following a trend first indicated in the first quarter, Amazon.com Inc.’s market share continued to fall, coming in 41 percent. But its devices were ...