A scammer has targeted people wishing to donate following the Islamic terrorist attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida June 12. A fake Twitter account under the name of @PulseOrlandoUSA (since suspended) pretending to represent the nightclub was for a time soliciting Bitcoin donations with claims to buy bottled water and Oreo cookies. The account included ...

Audio distribution platform provider SoundCloud Ltd. has raised around $100 million Series E in a round that was led by Twitter, Inc. with an investment of $70 million. According to Re/Code who broke the story, the round was raised on a $700 million valuation, the same price SoundCloud raised $70 Series D on in 2014. ...

A new form of ransomware that can attack Android-powered smart televisions has been discovered by security researchers at Trend Micro, Inc. Dubbed FLocker (short for the Frantic Locker), the malware has been in circulation since at least April 2015 and has previously concentrated on locking down smartphones running the latest builds of Android. However, a ...

Google, Inc. announced Monday at its Atmosphere Conference in Tokyo a redesign of its Google Sites service and a new app called Springboard that allows users to search through information they have stored on Google services. Leading the announcement was the Springboard app which utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to allow users to ...

Apple wants kids to learn how to code, and it put its money where its mouth is at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday with the announcement of Swift Playgrounds, an iPad app designed to teach people how to code. The new app is said to make “learning to code fun and easy ...

Augmented reality startup Meta Company has raised $50 million Series B in a round that included Horizons Ventures Limited, Lenovo, Tencent, Banyan Capital, Comcast Ventures, and GQY. According to TechCrunch, the round was raised on a $300 million valuation. Founded in 2012, Meta is aiming to lead the next evolution of personal computing through augmented ...

Symantec Corp. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire enterprise security firm Blue Coat Systems, Inc. for $4.65 billion in cash. Under the deal, Blue Coat Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark will become Symantec Chief Executive Officer when the transaction in concluded and according to The Wall Street Journal Blue ...

Search giant Google, Inc. stands accused of manipulating its search results in favor of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a new report published Thursday. SourceFed, a YouTube channel with 1.7 million followers and with no obvious political affiliation (it primarily publishes a mix of news, pop culture, and explanatory videos) makes the ...

Philippine Bitcoin fintech startup Satoshi Citadel Industries has raised a seed round from K Venture Group (KVG), the investment arm of South Korea internet company Kakao Corporation. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Founded in 2014 with the aim of becoming the ecosystem for Bitcoin in the Philippines, Satoshi Citadel operates a number ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. will now support 360-degree photographs, the company announced Thursday. The new feature will allow users to upload panorama shots as well as proper 360 degree photographs, which will then be viewable by friends on their timeline complete with the ability to browse the entire image; this is different to the ...