Peace for our time may have been the fateful words of Neville Chamberlain in 1938 after returning from the Munich Conference, but the Governments of the U.S. and China think they may be smarter with news over the weekend that they are working on a new cyber treaty. The dalliance in digital detente would see ...

A malicious program dubbed XcodeGhost has hit apps in Apple’s App Store, including well known applications including the popular messaging platform WeChat. Apple confirmed news of the malware Sunday and stated that it was removing malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in what Reuters refers to as the “first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet.” ...

Facebook, Inc. wants a slice of the attention Twitter, Inc. gets from journalists with a new service that makes content discovery on the uber-social network far more accessible. Called Facebook Signal, the new service allows journalists, writers, bloggers, whatever badge they apply to themselves, to search through Facebook to surface relevant trends, photos, videos, and ...

Apple surprised pundits and fanboys alike Thursday by announcing it will be appealing the e-book price-fixing case in the Supreme Court. The original ruling in 2013, subsequently appealed by Apple earlier this year with no success, found that the tech giant had colluded with 5 major publishers to fix the price of e-books to the ...

IBM is embracing the Bitcoin Blockchain by utilizing the technology to power smart contracts. According to The Wall Street Journal Big Blue’s research arm is using the code that powers the Blockchain to create a new derivative system that would be used to create digital contracts that would be recorded publicly and securely on a world-wide ...

Global competition to ride sharing service Uber, Inc. may be set to ratchet up a notch with the company’s main competitors in Asia and North America in talks to form a global alliance. Heavily venture capital funded, and China’s largest taxi hailing app provider Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc.) leads the group with the announcement ...

Global media giant News Corp. has acquired video advertising come “viral video” firm Unruly Media Ltd. for up to $176 million. The purchase price for the acquisition is reported to consist of a cash payment £58 million ($90 million), subject to certain adjustments, and up to £56 million ($86 million) on top in “future consideration ...

Mapping visualization startup Mapsense, Inc. is said to have been acquired by Apple, according to one unconfirmed report Wednesday. Re/Code claims the company was acquired for a figure around $25 million to $30 million, not a bad pay day for a company that was founded in 2013. Based in San Francisco, CA, Mapsense claims to ...

Nine major banks have joined with fintech startup R3CEV LLC (R3) to develop a framework for using Blockchain technology in financial markets. The announcement of the partnership to design and deliver advanced distributed/shared ledger technologies to global financial markets includes some of the biggest names in global banking, including Barclays, BBVA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Baaa! Shaun the Sheep Demonstrating once again the pathetic nature of many “journalists” in not even attempting to confirm a story, various media outlets (including respected ones) reported Tuesday that Facebook was getting a dislike button. While a feature that has been asked for by users of the social networking giant going back years, there’s ...