In a coup for Google, Inc., music streaming firm Spotify AB has announced it’s moving its service to the Google Cloud. Founded in 2006, Spotify has until now hosted its service by itself in data centers in its native Stockholm, as well as the United Kingdom and the United States, but has decided that the ...

Sony Corp.’s education division Sony Global Education has announced that it has developed a Blockchain-based platform for secure sharing of academic proficiency and progress records. The new, unnamed platform leverages the Blockchain to allows the distribution of these records, which are often required to be shared not only across a single educational institution, but across ...

AT&T, Inc. and Intel Corp. have teamed up to test technologies for drones that will allow them to communicate over the 4G LTE network. The announcement, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday, detailed that the utilization of the 4G network would not only allow drones to fly further than they are currently ...

Oracle Corporation has acquired cloud application hypervisor provider Ravello Systems, Inc. The price of the acquisition was not officially disclosed but VentureBeat put the price at $500 million. Founded in 2011, Ravello bills itself as “the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider,” and allows enterprises to encapsulate their multi-VM applications and run them anywhere – ...

HTC Corp.’s entry into the virtual reality (VR) space looks to be about as successful as its attempts to sell smartphones (ie: bad), with details emerging at the weekend detailing how much its upcoming Vive VR headset will cost. According to the company itself, the HTC Vive will go on sale in April for $799 ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. launched its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7, and Galaxy S7 Edge Sunday night during the Mobile World Congress, and unlike the launch of the Galaxy S6, they didn’t disappoint. Off the bat, the biggest selling points with the phone are literally a redux of back the future, and in this ...

Dodgy Bitcoin mining machine operation Butterfly Labs, Inc. has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that they scammed thousands of users. The FTC took the company to court back in September 2014 over claims that the ASIC Bitcoin mining gear they were selling was either second hand, not as promised, delivered late or ...

Apple, Inc. has eaten some humble pie and apologized for the Error 53 issue while at the same time issuing a fix. If you’ve not been following the news, iPhone users who had the Touch ID sensor in their phones repaired by a third party, or even by themselves, found their iPhone’s bricked with an Error ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. is planning to introduce advertising on its Messenger app, according to a report published Thursday. TechCrunch quotes from an alleged “leaked” document that details the plan, which will apparently see advertisers being able to send ads via the chat app, but of note only to users who have previously chatted ...

The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center revealed Wednesday that it had decided to pay the ransom to hackers who had infected their computer system with ransomware. Although initial reports suggested that the ransom demanded was 9000 Bitcoin ($3.6 million), the amount paid by the hospital was only the significantly lower sum of 40 Bitcoin ($17,000). The ...