Blockchain-based mobile voting startup Voatz Inc. has landed its first big contract, with the State of West Virginia agreeing to use its platform for military voting. But the news has raised security concerns. Voatz first came onto the radar in January when it raised $2.2 million in a seed round led by Medici Ventures, Overstock.com Inc.’s venture arm. It makes ...

The millennial love affair with Snapchat is officially over: Parent company Snap Inc. today reported its first-ever decline in active users in its second quarter. In a mixed bag of results, the messaging app maker reported $262.3 million in revenue and a loss of 14 cents, beating market predictions of a 17-cent loss on $249.8 ...

Most organizations want to implement security into the entire DevOps process, but they’re struggling to do so. That’s the biggest takeaway from a new report out today from security firm Checkmarx Ltd. “Managing Software Exposure: Time to Fully Embed Security into Your Application Lifecycle” was undertaken in conjunction with FreeForm Dynamics and The Register based on the input ...

The price of bitcoin continued to fall Monday as a bull run that peaked at the end of July came to an end. But a rumor that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be about to offer bitcoin support to institutional clients could see the market turn again. In the perpetual roller coaster that is bitcoin’s ...

Google LLC today moved forward on the Android front, rolling out the next iteration of its mobile operating system Android 9 and acquiring a startup that makes mobile graphics benchmarking tools to assist in Android development. Succeeding the previous Android version called Oreo, the new one is called Pie, maintaining Google’s habit of naming new releases ...

Coinbase Inc. today said it has hired Tim Wagner, previously a general manager at Amazon Web Services Inc., to become vice president of engineering at the rapidly growing cryptocurrency outfit. Wagner joins Coinbase with a wealth of experience in cloud services and development. He spent six years at Microsoft Corp. in the role of director ...

Florida-based TCM Bank N.A., a company that primarily offers credit card services to credit unions and other small financial institutions, has been found to be exposing the personal data of credit card applicants for over a year. The breach was reported Friday by security researcher Brian Krebs. The company said it was caused by a website misconfiguration ...

Taiwanese chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., best known as the main component maker for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, is recovering today from a virus that crippled at least 80 percent of its manufacturing line on Friday. Known by the abbreviation of TSMC, the company said that it had restored most of its fabrication tools and ...

It turns out that supporting bitcoin is a profitable endeavor after all, at least for some companies: Payments startup Square Inc. booked $36.5 million in additional revenue thanks to its support for the cryptocurrency in its second quarter. The number comes from Square’s quarterly financial report released Wednesday, which showed the company run by Jack ...

Cloud transportation management and mapping platform startup rideOS Inc. has raised $25 million in new funding to expand its services to global transportation markets. The Series B round was led by Next47, the venture capital arm of German industrial manufacturing conglomerate Siemens AG, with Sequoia Capital and ST Engineering Ventures also participating. Founded only last ...