Search giant Google has announced that it will punish the mobile rankings of sites that use interstitial pop-ups, starting in January 2017. If you’re not familiar with the term, an interstitial is traditionally a page displayed before or after an expected content page. In the case of mobile sites, they’re displayed as pop-up overlays that block access ...

Apple is said to have acquired health data startup Gliimpse, Inc., according to a report published Monday. Fast Company claims that the acquisition occurred earlier this year but was never publicly announced, although as is standard for an Apple acquisition, the tech giant issued its standard statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to ...

Google has released the latest version of its mobile operating system Android with version 7.0, dubbed Nougat, now available. The new version of Android comes with an impressive range of upgrades from Android Marshmallow 6.0, including new multitasking capabilities that allow users to do two things at once on a device running Android. Along with ...

A new report from security firm buguroo (BUGUROO OFFENSIVE SECURITY S.L.) has revealed a new campaign targeting global banks and finance companies that is utilizing more effective versions of the infamous Gozi trojan. According to the report, targeted companies include PayPal, CitiDirect BE, ING Bank, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, the Bank of Tokyo and others ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Inc. has confirmed that it has acquired the intellectual property assets of enterprise bitcoin payments processor Bitnet Technologies Ltd. Using the intellectual property (IP) obtained and a number of Bitnet employees, the company also announced that it was  opening a blockchain development lab in the United Kingdom. The Rakuten Blockchain Lab, ...

Ridesharing service provider Lyft, Inc. unsuccessfully approached a number of high profile companies in an attempt to sell itself, according to a report published Saturday. The New York Times claims that the company approached General Motors Corp., Apple, Inc., Google, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Uber, Inc., and Didi Chuxing Technology Co. as potential acquirers but beyond ...

Uber has acquired self-driving truck startup Otto in a move that will expand Uber's self-driving vehicle ambitions.

Microblogging service Twitter, Inc. has rolled out two new features that allow users to control what they see in their notification view, with an aim of reducing alleged harassment. The first of the new features, which was previously available to verified users only, is called by Twitter as a “quality filter,” and when switched on ...

Ridesharing giant Uber Technologies, Inc. is about to change transport as we know it by launching a fleet of driverless cars onto the streets of Pittsburgh in what will go down in history as the first use of the technology for commercial transport purposes. According to Bloomberg, who broke the news, Uber will allow customers ...

Russia has joined the bitcoin age, with the country seeing the opening of its first bitcoin exchange despite ongoing attempts in the country to ban the trade of cryptocurrencies. The exchange, run by a group well-known as BTC24pro.com on LocalBitcoins, is a physical office that allows customers to convert bitcoin into Russian Rubbles but does ...