Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. has confirmed that it raised $1.5 billion in private equity funding earlier this year via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The Wall Street Journal first broke the news of the round back in late July after rumors of a new round emerged earlier that same month, but ...

2015 has been a horror year on the security front, with a long list of high-profile corporations and even the Internal Revenue Service finding themselves at the mercy of a variety of bad actors. The question for the year ahead is will the enterprise security landscape see an improvement as security tools continue to evolve ...

Various industry bodies over the years have tried all sorts of scare tactics in relation to piracy, up to and including taking people to court, but what if your pirated item ended up stealing Bitcoin? That’s exactly what happened to one Reddit user who had downloaded a pirated copy of hit game Fallout 4 in ...

IT auditing software company Netwrix Corp. has released the results of its 2015 Cloud Security Survey, showing that 65 percent of companies are concerned with security when migrating to the cloud and 40 percent are concerned with the loss of physical control over data once it gets there. The survey of 600 IT professionals worldwide, who ...

Google, Inc. has released its annual Google Play Best of 2015 list, and while there were some surprises, the list saw a number of old favorites continue to dominate. The list, which includes Best Games of 2015 and Best Apps of 2015, includes approximately 50 selections from the year that was and were based on ...

Machine to Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) space has boomed in 2015, but bigger things are ahead as the market continues to explode and reach into every aspect of our lives, even down to things like Internet-enabled light bulbs. According to Vodafone Group Plc, more than a quarter of all companies worldwide ...

Victims of Hunter Moore, the owner and operator of the now-defunct revenge porn site Is Anyone Up?, have had the last laugh after he was sent to jail for 30 months for crimes committed when running the site. The sentence was imposed by a federal judge in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday, along with a ...

Uber Technologies, Inc.’s main competitors in China, the United States, Southeast Asia and India — Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi, Inc.), Lyft, Inc., GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd., and India’s Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), respectively — have announced a global alliance to take on the mighty unicorn across the globe. Under the deal, users of each ...

Apple looks set to expand its lineup of iPhones in the new year with a report that it’s preparing to ship a new phone. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, famed for accurate Apple predictions, has issued a research note with details of the new phone, believed to be called the iPhone 6c, which like the ...

Multinational investment banking firm Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. has predicted a strong future for blockchain technology, the distributed digital ledger that powers Bitcoin. The group sent an Emerging Theme Radar research note to clients Wednesday, saying, “While the Bitcoin hype cycle has gone quiet, Silicon Valley and Wall Street are betting that the underlying technology ...