Twitter Inc. is expanding its every growing stable of live, primarily sports coverage with two new initiatives, its first foray outside of the United States and a livestream of the forthcoming U.S. Presidential election-night coverage. On the sports side, Twitter has signed a deal with the Victoria Racing Club to live stream the Melbourne Cup, ...

Online game company Evony LLC has been hacked as the records of over 33 million customers were exposed online. Hacking source site LeakedSource made the discovery, finding account records for 33,407,472 users of Evony’s main game. They are believed to have been obtained in June, along with the records for an additional 938,000 members of ...

Verizon Communications Inc.’s takeover of Yahoo Inc. may be in jeopardy, with a lawyer for the company confirming Thursday that the Yahoo hack may have put the $4.83 billion deal at risk. Verizon’s General Counsel Craig Silliman is said to have told reporters at a Verizon event in Washington, DC on Thursday that the data breach ...

Transparency is important in the event of being hacked, and although some companies (like Yahoo) fail miserably when the worst occurs, others now understand how important it is to communicate with their customers in a time of crisis. Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is one such company, with the firm having its domain name server hijacked earlier ...

Software as a service optimization platform provider Zylo Inc. has raised $3.3 million in seed funding from investors including High Alpha Capital, GGV Capital, SV Angel Don Brown, Peter McCormick and Mark Hill. Founded in 2015, Zylo offers a SaaS optimization platform that promises to transform how companies manage and optimize the vast and accelerating ...

No longer interested in sitting in the background in the drone business, Intel Corp. has revealed its first company-branded drone. Called the Falcon 8+, the commercial drone weighs only six pounds and, according to Recode, it flies faster than most hobby drones on the market with a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour. The drone incorporates ...

A new group is believed to be attacking international financial institutions with a weaponized trojan that may be targeting transfers over the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication network. According to new research published by Symantec Corp., the group behind the trojan, called Odinaff, is not believed to be linked to the Lazarus Group, the ...

Google’s virtual mobile network Project Fi keeps getting better with the tech giant announcing Tuesday that it is adding a group plan. The new group plan allows Fi users to have up to six people on the one plan. New members can be added at a standard $15 a month for talk and text (Fi ...

Workspace as a service platform provider CloudJumper Inc. has announced a new channel partner program from managed service providers, independent software vendors, agents and other information technology service providers. The new program offers participating partners a competitive, simple to operate and manage workspace-as-a-service solution for the delivery of cloud desktops, hosted applications, data and complete ...

Developer community site Stack Overflow has launched a new feature that it claims will overhaul the traditional resumé. Called “Developer Story,” the new feature allows users to highlight the accomplishments most important to them, by letting them share what they’ve worked on by linking to actual features they’ve worked on, blog posts or public code. “Those ...