Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. has increased its lead as the world’s largest smartphone vendor in the second quarter as the overall market remained flat and Apple, Inc.’s market share has shrunk, according to a new report from the International Data Corporation (IDC). All vendors combined shipped 343.3 million smartphones in the quarter, up only 0.3 ...

Blockchain technology firm Blockstream, Inc. has acquired European bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress (GreenAdressit Ltd.) for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, GreenAddress offers a per-transaction two-factor authentication, multi-signature and deterministic wallet that is claimed to deliver users unprecedented control over their transactions. The company uses a number of systems to keep the wallet secure and ...

Three years after its acquisition by Yahoo, Inc., Tumblr has finally decided to attempt to monetize its social justice warrior blogging network by introducing ads on all blogs hosted by the service. The announcement, which is bound to cause outrage from Tumblr users, was spun by the service as a way for users to make ...

Mobile tool maker LaunchKit (Cluster Labs, Inc.) has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2015, LaunchKit offers a suite of tools that makes it easier to track sales, reviews and build a landing page for apps and services. The company’s products include Screenshot Builder, a tool that allows users to create ...

Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd has reported its highest profit in two years off the back of continued strong sales of its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones. The company reported revenue was 50.94 trillion won ($45.2 billion) in the second quarter, up 5 percent on a year ago, with operating profit coming in ...

Wireless keyboards have become popular in recent years as prices drop and battery life has improved, but what if those same keyboards pose a serious security threat? According to research from security firm Bastille Networks, Inc., many popular makes of wireless keyboards do pose a serious security threat, due to them using unencrypted radio communication protocols ...

Channeling George W. Bush’s infamous Homeland Security Advisory System, the Obama Administration in its final days has bizarrely launched a color coded “Cyber Incident Severity Schema” as part of a new Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination. The new policy is aimed at establishing clear principles that will govern the Federal Government’s activities ...

Apple, Inc. has reported another quarter of falling revenue and profit as iPhone sales continue to slump, although not by as much as the market had expected. For the third quarter ending June Apple posted quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion and quarterly net income of $7.8 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share, compared to revenue ...

Europe has welcomed its first regulated Bitcoin exchange-traded instrument (ETI) with the BitcoinETI listing on the Gibraltar Stock Exchange. Exchange-traded instruments are exchange traded securities which allow simple and transparent participation in the performance of an underlying instrument, and in the case of BitcoinETI, that underlying instrument is bitcoin. ETIs differ from Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) ...

A judge has dismissed charges in a Miami money laundering case on the basis that under Florida law bitcoin cannot be considered money. The ruling came in the case of Michell Espinoza, who was accused of illegally selling and laundering $1,500 worth of bitcoins to undercover detectives who claimed they wanted to use them to ...