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Japanese messaging giant LINE Corp. Monday joined the cryptocurrency bandwagon, launching a cryptocurrency exchange called BITBOX. First reported as coming in June, BITBOX offers 28 types of coins that can be traded in 54 pairs: three in USDT, the Tether stablecoin, 26 in bitcoin and …
CDN startup Fastly raises $40M ahead of a likely 2019 IPO
Content delivery network startup Fastly Inc. today said it has raised a late-stage funding round of $40 million as it heads to a likely initial public offering next year. The Series F round was led by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and included Sozo Ventures, Swisscom …
Report: Samsung Galaxy S10 will have three different sizes and on-screen fingerprint scanning
Nine months out from a likely launch date, the rumor mill has started on Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next flagship Galaxy S10 — and after disappointing S9 sales, it’s looking like it might be a winner. The spec rumors come from well-regarded …
Coinbase explores adding support for five new cryptocurrencies
Coinbase Inc. said Friday that it was looking at adding support for five new cryptocurrencies to its exchange service as it continues to grow its service into more obscure coins and tokens. The company, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. market, …
‘Bitcoin Maven’ gets a year in jail for selling bitcoin for cash in grocery bags
A woman who ran a trading operation that offered bitcoins for sale in return for cash has been sentenced to 366 days in prison on money laundering charges. Theresa Lynn Tetley, a 50-year-old former stockbroker from Southern California, was alleged to offer …
Medical software provider Medevolve exposes 200,000 patient records online
A failure to protect online data has resulted in the exposure of approximately 200,000 protected health information records from Arkansas-based practice cloud management software provider Medevole LLC. The data breach involved Medevole leaving a backup database of customer data from Premier Immediate Medical Care …
Justice Department lodges appeal against AT&T Time Warner deal approval
The U.S. Department of Justice today lodged an appeal against a ruling by a District Court judge June 12 that overruled an earlier ban against AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. In the notice of appeal lodged with the Court of Appeals, …
With a free version of Teams, Microsoft takes the fight to Slack
Microsoft Corp. is taking the good fight to Slack Technologies Inc. with the launch of a free version of its Teams workplace collaboration service. The new introductory tier, the first time Microsoft has offered a free version of Teams since launching the …
Boom times: Venture capital funding hits record highs as AI leads the way
Venture capital flowing into technology companies continued at record highs in the second quarter as two reports said the U.S. tech market is at highs it hasn’t seen since the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. The numbers come from both the …
Prior to IPO, Opera sexes up its browser with a cryptocurrency wallet
Browser company Opera Ltd. is trying to sex itself up prior to its initial public offering later this year, tapping into the cryptocurrency market by bundling an Ethereum wallet with its latest browser. The built-in Ethereum wallet is being offered via the latest version …