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As Spotify is set to go public, tech education startup Pluralsight files for an IPO too
Despite ongoing market volatility, the market for tech initial public offerings continues to drive full steam ahead. Music streaming startup Spotify Technologies SA set to go public Tuesday, while Pluralsight LLC, a Utah-based technology education company, filed its IPO paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday. On Tuesday, the long-awaited Spotify public offering won’t ...
Report: Apple planning to dump Intel chips in Mac computers for its own
Apple Inc. is designing its own central processing unit chips to replace Intel Corp. chips in its Mac computers as soon as 2020, according to a report published Monday. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the plans, said the initiative, code-named Kalamata, is still in the early developmental stages. It’s part of an overall strategy by Apple to make all ...
Email marketing service MailChimp joins the crowd banning cryptocurrency-related content
Email marketing service MailChimp is the latest company to ban cryptocurrency-related services in what could be a more serious blow to the industry than those already imposed by social networks. MailChimp has long been one of the most popular providers of automated email response and list management services, used by millions of e-commerce sites, companies ...
Up to 5M credit card numbers stolen in hack of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor
Upto 5 million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor may have had their credit data stolen after a cybercrime syndicate was found to be offering to sell the details. Discovered by Gemini Data and announced today, the theft of the data is believed to have begun in May 2017 and may ...
Cloudflare launches high-speed, privacy-focused DNS service
Cloudflare Inc. today launched a free consumer-focused DNS service that it promises will deliver users a quicker and more private internet experience. The service, located at the web address https://1.1.1.1, acts as a DNS resolver, a middle point of sorts that connects a website to an IP address, figuring out where web services are hosted ...
Bitcoin plunges as ‘Death Cross’ suggests longer-term price decline
The price of bitcoin plunged below $7,000 Thursday as reports discussed the cryptocurrency passing a so-called “Death Cross,” a statistical estimate of longer-term trends. Bitcoin has been mostly stagnant in March as many investors sat on it waiting to see where it may go. Despite fanboys such as Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey ...
Cryptominers love college: Report finds universities have the highest infection rates
Higher-education institutions are the new battleground for cryptomining-related hacking, according to a newly published report from security firm Vectra Networks Inc. A full 60 percent of all cryptomining software detections occurred in college and university networks, followed well behind by entertainment and leisure on 6 percent, financial services and technology at 3 percent each and healthcare ...
Under Armour fitness tracking app hacked and 150M customer records stolen
Sports apparel maker Under Armour Inc. revealed Thursday that its MyFitnessPal service had been hacked with the account details of 150 million users being stolen. MyFitnessPal is a smartphone app and website offered by the company that tracks diet and exercise to determine optimal caloric intake and nutrients for the users’ goals, using gamification elements ...
Telegram raises $850M more in ICO as messaging service suffers major downtime
Encrypted-messaging startup Telegram Messenger LLC has raised an additional $850 million in its initial coin offering even as the service suffered serious downtime today. The figure, reported in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, came from the second stage of its ICO after it already raised $850 million in its ICO presale ...
Snyk teams with Google to detect JavaScript vulnerabilities in Chrome Lighthouse
Security firm Snyk Ltd. today said it has partnered with Google LLC to power the vulnerable JavaScript libraries audit in Google Chrome’s Lighthouse, an automated developer tool for improving the quality of web apps. The integration of Snyk’s open-source vulnerabilities data into Lighthouse is aimed at developing more secure web applications by making developers aware of ...









