Yahoo, Inc. is returning home with an announcement Tuesday that they have signed a deal with Google to provide search results and advertising. According to reports the deal will see Google will provide web search results, search ads and image search services for an unspecified number of Yahoo user queries, on both desktop and mobile ...

What’s the best way for a startup or enterprise to disclose a data breach? It’s sadly a question more and more companies are faced with in 2015 as various bad actors, some even state sponsored, hack into more and more user databases, be it for various reasons, from the pure thrill of doing so, through ...

A now former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent has been sent to prison for 78 months after pleading guilty to stealing Bitcoins during the Federal investigation that brought down notorious drug marketplace Silk Road. According to reports Carl Force, the former agent, admitted to charges including extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice. Despite pleading ...

Google is taking the SaaS fight to rivals Microsoft and IBM with a new offer that provides its Google Apps for Work for free when a company has an existing enterprise agreement (EA) with another provider. Google to its credit didn’t name Microsoft or IBM in its official announcement about the new offer, but it ...

Time, Inc. has acquired women-focused lifestyle site Hello Giggles, Inc. for a figure around $20-$30 million. The terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, however, The Wall Street Journal puts the figure at “in the range of $20 million” whereas The Hollywood Report puts it at “around $30 million.” Founded in 2011 by TV ...

McAfee Labs (a division of Intel Security) has released a new report that provides a fascinating insight into how different types of stolen data are being packaged and sold online. The Hidden Data Economy report (pdf) examined pricing for stolen credit and debit card data, bank account login credentials, stealth bank transfer services, online payment ...

Bitcoin and altcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) may be in a serious trouble, with one report over the weekend claiming that the exchange is refusing to allow users to cash out. A report from The Merkle goes as far as claiming that the company has “gone full Mt Gox” (a reference to failed Japanese ...

Apple has established a “Quality Program” that allows MacBook and MacBook Pro users with defective screens to have the screen replaced at no charge. The Quality Program (Apple-speak for replacement program) comes as a significant number of users with the laptops have reported that the anti-reflective treatment on Retina models has worn off or even ...

Some people may suggest that Twitter Inc., with its 140 character limit (possibly soon to be lifted) is little more than shallow noise on the internet. So why not take that further and extend that to the tweeting class… in this case a bird, or a chicken to be more precise. In what may be ...

Tech giant Apple has surprisingly decided to be benevolent with a new program that will see all the company’s employees given shares in the company. According to reports the new initiative effectively means everyone who works for Apple is eligible for what is called an “RSU grant.” RSU grants (newspeak for we are giving you ...