The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are investigating notorious hacking group FIN4 over allegations that they have been using hacked information to profit from share trading. To make matters even more interesting, Reuters quotes “people familiar with the matter“ as saying that the SEC has approached at least eight listed companies to provide details of ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. is said to be raising $500 million Series I on a $20 billion valuation. According to reports, the new round of funding apparently reflects investors’ eagerness to gain access to a startup seen as one of the most successful in the world, although many probably haven’t even heard ...

“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” Robert H Jackson, famed jurist and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A funny thing is happening in the second decade in the 21st ...

Foursquare, Inc. announced Monday that mayorships are back in their geolocation check-in app Swarm. The feature, one of the original features of Foursquare before it pivoted into a places to visit recommendation app, allowed users who checked into places to earn “mayorships” if they had checked in the most times at that location. The game ...

The combatants in the “container wars” have declared peace with an announcement Monday that they are joining forces to create the Open Container Project (OCP), chartered to establish common standards for software containers. The project sees rival container providers CoreOS, Inc. and Docker, Inc. joining the group, along with a long list of interested parties ...

Indian cryptocurrency startup Trestor has completed a successful trial of its digital currency Trest in the African nation of Cameroon, demonstrating how altcoin can play a role within the third world. The pilot program included the Cameroon government and Socapssi, an organization created in Cameroon to bridge the gap between the informal and national insurance ...

Is Google spying on what you are saying via your computer’s microphone? They well could be if you use Chromium, and that’s the crux a new accusation from Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Pirate Party. Falkvinge claims in a blog post that Google has been stealth-downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chromium, ...

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Shakespeare, it isn’t, but whether you’re a fan of the music of Taylor Swift or not, no one can argue with the fact that she has become highly successful. With that success has come power, but how power is wielded depends on the person wielding it, and in Ms. Swift’s ...

Unless you ignore news reports, you’d know that Greece is in a spot of bother at the moment, and may default on its sovereign debt. Quite a few sites have suggested that Bitcoin could, or should be the next currency of Greece should it be thrown out of the Euro area. Here’s what you need ...

Fitness tracking maker Fitbit, Inc. went public Thursday to a positive response from Wall Street, closing its first day of trading up 48.4 percent at $29.68 from its original initial public offering price of $20 per share. According to reports, shares peaked early for Fitbit up 52 percent at $30.40 before settling down at the ...