Securus Technologies Inc., a company best known as a go-to firm for U.S. prisons that want to track and monitor phones, has itself been hacked, according to a report from Motherboard. When the hack took place is not clear, but the report claims to have evidence of at least 2,800 logins and poorly encrypted passwords relating ...

Bitcoin and blockchain startup Circle Internet Financial, Inc. has raised $110 million in new funding as a “strategic investment” while also announcing its intent to launch a new cryptocurrency tied to the U.S. dollar. The new round announced Tuesday, the first since 2016, was led by Bitmain, with the participation of IDG Capital, Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Digital Currency ...

Coinbase Inc., the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding its services again in an attempt to broaden its appeal to traditional institutional Wall Street investors. In a raft of new products announced Tuesday, the headline launch was Coinbase Custody, a custodian offering traditionally offered by merchant banks to secure customer cash. A custodian in finance is a third-party ...

Microsoft Corp.’s megatablet is back. The technology giant today announced a successor to its original model in the form of the Surface Hub 2. The original Surface Hub, launched in 2015, went on to become a surprising smash hit, surprising mostly because not only was its size large, so was its price. But three years later, ...

HTC Corp. wants a slice of cryptocurrency market. The Android phone maker today unveiled a new model that will have blockchain-enabled cryptowallet support built in by default. The new phone, called Exodus, will feature a cryptocurrency wallet with a secure hardware enclave to support bitcoin, Ethereum and other Ethereum-based tokens out of the box. Although the ...

Facebook Inc. has suspended about 200 apps over data privacy concerns as part of the post-Cambridge Analytica scandal investigation announced by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg March 21. The 200 unnamed apps, part of thousands so far investigated, have been suspended “pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data,” Facebook said ...

In a tale of two companies, one with perpetual issues and the other a rising star, Uber Technologies Inc. today announced a new rating feature in its app while archrival Lyft Inc. announced it has stolen even more of Uber’s market share. Tinkering while Rome burns — or in this case, killing pedestrians with reportedly faulty software — Uber announced ...

Tesla Inc.’s safety woes continued to mount Monday as the Chinese ride-hailing giant and growing autonomous vehicle competitor Didi Chuxing Technology Co. was reported to have been given permission to test its self-driving cars on American roads. In the latest drama for Tesla, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company executives rejected a safety proposal by ...

In a surprising turn of events, President Trump has intervened in a trade dispute that resulted in the shutdown of Chinese electronics company ZTE Corp., saying on Twitter Sunday that he was working with President Xi to get the company “back into business, fast.” ZTE announced Wednesday that it had ceased major operating activities following a seven-year ban that forbids ...

Restaurant chain owner Brinker International Inc. advised Saturday that customer data may have been stolen from its Tex-Mex cuisine chain Chili’s in what looks like another case of retail point-of-sale hacking. The incident was described as a “notice of unauthorized access” in a media release. The company said it had learned that “payment card information of ...