In a surprising move, users across multiple platforms will soon have access to the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service after Microsoft Corp. announced new partnerships to deliver the service to other operating systems. Microsoft is teaming up with Bitdefender s.r.o, Lookout Inc. and Ziften Technologies Inc. to enable Windows Defender ATP to detect, protect and respond to ...

The price of bitcoin dropped in trading Wednesday after a plan for a proposed fork in the cryptocurrency that would have seen investors credited with an additional bitcoin-related cyptocurrency were dropped thanks to a lack of support. Called SegWit2x, the proposed fork would have increased the blocksize of bitcoin to allow quicker and less costly transaction ...

Shares in Snap Inc. bounced somewhat in trading Wednesday after a quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission filing disclosed that Chinese investment giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. had acquired a 12 percent stake in the company. Tencent, which is best known as the owner of Chinese messaging service WeChat, acquired 145,778,246 shares of Snap Class A common stock but was ...

Apple Inc.’s long-rumored desire to bring an augmented reality headset to market seems to be progressing, as a new report said today that the headset now has a name, an operating system and a planned release date. Bloomberg claimed that the Apple augmented reality headset is being internally referred to by the code-name “T288” and that ...

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today announced a $110 million all-cash deal to acquire Cloudmark Inc., a San Francisco-based messaging security and threat intelligence software provider for internet service providers and mobile carriers. Founded in 2001, Cloudmark builds messaging security software designed to protect communications service provider networks and their subscribers against a wide range of messaging threats. ...

A security vulnerability in a popular wallet used to store the Ethereum cryptocurrency has been triggered, freezing more than $280 million worth of ETH in the process with no fix currently in sight. The triggered vulnerability involves code in wallets from Parity that was introduced on July 20. That code was intended to patch a previous ...

Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google LLC parent company Alphabet Inc., today announced that it has started testing ride-hailing services with autonomous vehicles that don’t have a safety driver behind the wheel — the first time this type of service has been offered in the United States. The test is an extension of a ...

Updated with Tencent investment and Wednesday share price Shares of Snap Inc. plunged in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company behind the Snapchat messaging app reported user growth and revenue below what market analysts had forecast. Snap reported third-quarter revenue of $207.9 million, up 62 percent compared to the same quarter in 2016 but below the ...

Network security company Tenable Inc. today said it has signed a strategic partnership with Siemens AG to assist energy, utilities and oil and gas companies defend against cyberattacks. The deal will see the launch of “Industrial Security” from Tenable, which Siemens will deliver as a service to help companies secure and protect their critical operational technology assets. Siemens, perhaps ...

Bjork is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. The famous Icelandic singer announced Friday that fans can purchase her new album using cryptocurrencies and that everyone who does will be rewarded with an obscure cryptocurrency in return. Bjork (pictured) is accepting payments in bitcoin, litecoin, dashcoin and something called “audiocoin.” Every fan who preorders her album will ...