JPMorgan Chase & Co., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Accenture PLC and others have joined forces to establish the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, a new body dedicated to developing Ethereum into an enterprise-grade blockchain platform. Backed by more than 30 firms, including Credit Suisse, UBS, Bank of New York Mellon and Thomson Reuters, the alliance connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, ...

Amazon Web Services is developing a commercial version of Alexa designed to manage call centers, according to a report from The Information. The report claims the Alexa-powered platform, currently code-named “Lily,” will be able to answer some questions asked by incoming phone calls as well as via text message with the support of Lex, a chatbot building service that ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. on Tuesday acquired behavioral attack detection firm LightCyber Ltd. for $105 million in an all-cash deal. But just a few hours later, the maker of security firewalls reported second-quarter revenues that missed Wall Street forecasts. The company also provided fiscal third-quarter guidance substantially short of forecasts, with Chief Executive Mark McLaughlin reporting “execution ...

Artificial intelligence-based hiring platform startup Belong Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has raised a $10 million later-stage funding round led by Sequoia Capital India. Founded in 2014, the Bangalore-based company claims to help organizations discover, engage and hire relevant talent at the right time using a data-driven solution. The company says its solution helps hiring teams spot ...

A massive data breach at a company that produces Internet-connected toys has exposed passwords, emails and more than 2 million private recorded messages between parents and their children. The breach, discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt, involved data coming from Spiral Toys Inc., the company behind Internet-connected stuffed teddy bears sold under the name of CloudPets ...

Google Inc. has announced that its experimental end-to-end encryption system E2Email is being released as open source code. The Chrome plugin and its underlying code allows users to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and verify signed messages within their browser using OpenPGP, a protocol for encrypting email communication using public key cryptography based on the original PGP ...

A Seattle man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after his drone crashed and injured two people. Paul M. Skinner, 38, was operating the drone during the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade when he lost control of the device. He was subsequently charged by police with reckless endangerment after his 18-inch-by-18-inch drone collided into a ...

Even the partial list of sites affected by Cloudbleed, the monumental security failure by content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. that exposed sensitive information including passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users, includes hundreds of popular sites. Published by a user who goes by the name of “pirate” on Github, the list includes a who’s ...

Over the past few years non-military drones have been deployed for an increasing number of uses, delivering everything from medical supplies to  7-Eleven Slurpees. Now, they’re going to deliver … insurance assessments. Australian-owned global insurance company QBE Insurance Group Ltd. is now using drones to better assess damage in disaster affected areas to process insurance claims faster. They have been deployed ...

Co-working firm WeWork Inc. is negotiating an investment from SoftBank that could be as high as $4 billion, according to a report published Sunday by CNBC. The deal is said to involve an initial investment of $2 billion followed by a secondary round worth “more than $1 billion” that could end up being $2 billion. WeWork ...