Police in Brazil have arrested a senior executive from social networking giant Facebook, Inc. over a dispute regarding a court order to produce data from its WhatsApp messaging service. Facebook Vice President for Latin America Diego Dzodan was arrested by Brazilian Federal Police in Sao Paulo state following a ruling from a judge in Sergipe ...

The latest contender into the burgeoning virtual reality space is one no one in their right minds expected, and that’s the McDonald’s Happy Meal. Happy Goggles (we promise we’re not making this up) comes from McDonald’s Sweden as part of a limited time only promotion, and allows those buying a Happy Goggles Happy Meal to ...

Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing startup BitFury Group Ltd. has announced that it has invested in Kenyan Bitcoin exchange BitPesa. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Founded in November 2013, the Nairobi-based startup pitches itself as an easy way to send money to Africa, although it primarily has an East African focus, ...

Management consulting services giant Accenture PLC has entered the cyber intelligence space with the launch of its new Accenture Cyber Intelligence Platform Monday. The platform, an addition to Accenture’s existing Managed Security offerings, is said to marry advances in chip processor technology with a proprietary combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and streaming analytics to ...

Payroll data from messaging app maker Snapchat, Inc. has fallen into the wrong hands after an employee was fooled into emailing it to a person who was pretending to be an employee of the company. According to a post from Snapchat Sunday, the scammer impersonated Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel and sent a spear-phishing email ...

In a case of “it had to happen eventually,” a Google self-driving car has been partially blamed for an accident with a bus on Valentine’s Day, February 14. In a statutory filing submitted (pdf) to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Google Automotive, a branch of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc. said that the accident occurred ...

Dark Web data intelligence tracking startup Terbium Labs, Inc. has raised $6.4 million Series A in a round led by .406 Ventures. Founded in 2013 and debuting in 2015, Terbium Labs’ main product is called Matchlight, a platform claimed to offer the world’s first fully private, fully automated security data intelligence system. Matchlight offers private, ...

Could the Blockchain, the distributed ledger that powers Bitcoin, prevent the next financial meltdown? First Global Credit, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gavin Smith believes that it could, and shared his thoughts on a soon-to-be published missive on the subject with SiliconANGLE. He opens by comparing what happened last time around, as the nominee for Best ...

If you haven’t heard of the MMM Bitcoin scam yet consider yourself lucky, but this Ponzi scheme continues to do the rounds, both in the developing world and first world, to the point where SiliconANGLE’s previous coverage continues to gain traffic as more and more “members” attempt to sign up new users. So what is ...

Russian Bitcoin and altcoin exchange YObit.net is facing some difficulties with users reporting that they are having problems withdrawing funds from the site and obtaining support services. Founded in January 2015, YObit.net differentiates itself by offering an extremely wide range of altcoins and allows altcoin makers to list their altcoins on the site, seemingly unchecked, ...