Apple, Inc.’s ongoing relationship with singer Taylor Swift has ratcheted up a notch with news over the weekend that the tech giant has gained exclusive rights to the stars’ new video. The 1989 World Tour Live video was filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ (Olympic) Stadium in Sydney, Australia, on November 28, 2015, and ...

Are attacks by trolls so out of control that potential future victims of cyberbullying need insurance? Either the justified or irrational fear that the answer to that question is yes has driven multinational insurance firm Chubb Corp. to offer troll insurance in the United Kingdom. Cyberbullying is defined by the insurer as “three or more ...

2015 was a year of record data breaches, driving home the risks faced by both enterprise and Government as bad actors continue to up the security risk ante. That said the year past was marked by a strategic shift from a maniacal focus on prevention, toward greater balance on monitoring, detection, and response capabilities, Amit ...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), best known as the body that facilitates international bank transfers, is riding with the times with a new initiative that will see it explore the possibilities of the Blockchain, the distributed digital ledger that powered Bitcoin. The move, called the Global Payments Innovation Initiative (GPI) will see ...

Machine-powered analysis startup DataScience, Inc. has raised $22 million Series B in a round led by Whitehard Ventures. Founded in 2014, DataScience aims to help companies spend less time analyzing data and more time implementing decisions based on their data through actionable insights. The company gathers data from customers in real-time or as flat files, ...

Shares in SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Corporation PLC, Australia’s biggest tech company, surged on their NASDAQ debut Thursday. The stock, which floated at $21 a share, hit an intraday high of $28.21 per share before settling at $27.78 at the ring of the bell, up 32.29 percent. In after-hours trading Atlassian stock was up ...

What lies ahead for cybersecurity in 2016? For a different take in our series of 2016 predictions six members of the team at cybersecurity firm Rapid7 LLC have shared what they are predicting for the year ahead. IoT vendors will improve security Tod Beardsley, Security Research Manager Beardsley believes that the security issues dogging the ...

SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Pty. Ltd., Australia’s biggest tech startup, lists Thursday morning local time on the NASDAQ with the company releasing details of the initial public offering price Wednesday evening. Atlassian’s initial public offering (IPO) ended up being priced at $21 per share, above a proposed $19 to $20 per share offering range, ...

Negotiations to bring subscription television to Apple TV have come to a halt with a report Wednesday that Apple has walked away from the negotiating table. According to Re/Code talks between the tech giant and media companies broke down due to Apple’s desire to offer what is referred to as a “skinny bundle” of channels, ...

Google, Inc. backed augmented reality startup Magic Leap, Inc. has raised $827 million Series C on a $3.7 billion valuation. Details on the round were obtained by Forbes via a Delaware filing which did not include who the investors were. Founded in 2011, Magic Leap is attempting to bring to market an augmented reality product ...