Any question that the smartphone wars are over has been put to rest again with a new report showing that nearly nine out of 10 phones shipped in the last quarter were running Google’s Android operating system. The report from Strategy Analytics Inc. detailed global smartphone shipments increasing 6 percent in the third quarter from ...

Intel Corp. has acquired live sports virtual reality firm Voke for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2004, Voke specializes in providing technology that allows media companies to build live and on-demand virtual reality experiences across multiple mediums, including on their own channels and via branded apps. According to Recode, Voke’s technology is able to capture live ...

Seattle-based search startup Atlas Informatics Inc. has raised $20.7 million in a round whose investors include Microsoft Corp., former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold and Aspect Ventures. Founded in 2015, the company currently offers Atlas Recall, a “search engine for your digital life” that documents everything a user has seen across all of his ...

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. reported a better-than-expected rise in revenue for the fourth quarter ending Sept. 30 assisted by strong demand from China. The semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company reported revenue of $6.2 billion for the quarter on net income of $1.6 billion, or $1.07 per share, up 13.3 percent from $5.5 billion in revenue on ...

Researchers at security firm Cylance Inc. have discovered a new malvertising campaign that targets Apple Inc.’s macOS users through fake software downloads. Disturbingly being offered on Google’s Adwords advertising network, the malvertising offers a copy of Google’s own Chrome web browser. If that’s not bad enough, those behind the scam acquired the top ranking position ...

IBM Corp. has acquired Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant Expert Personal Shopper from digital commerce firm Fluid Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Built using machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver expert advice that sounds like it’s coming from an actual human, XPS is aimed at assisting customers in their research before making a purchase. “Understanding ...

Uber Technologies Inc. and General Motors Co. have signed a new deal that will see the automotive giant rent cars to Uber drivers through its Maven rental service. The deal, announced Tuesday, will initially begin as a 90-day trial in Uber’s hometown of San Francisco and allows drivers to rent GM vehicles for $179 a ...

A man accused of running cyber attack-for-hire service Titanium Stresser has pleaded guilty to multiples charges in relation to his ownership and use of the service. Nineteen-year-old Adam Mudd from Kings Langley, a town north of London in the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty to unauthorized acts with intent to impair the operation of a computer, ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has won a case against the United States Army in which it claimed it was unfairly shut out of the bid process to work on the Army’s Distributed Common Ground System. According to Bloomberg, the Army’s bid-solicitation ruled out any commercially available solutions, by default barring Palantir from ...

Notorious hacking group the Shadow Brokers is back in the news after it published a list of servers claimed to have been compromised by the National Security Agency-linked Equation Group. The group had previously claimed to have hacked the Equation Group and then attempted to sell much of what they found, before switching to an ...