The official mobile apps of Republican presidential candidates Texas Senator Ted Cruz or Ohio Governor John Kasich are vulnerable to hacking, according to a new report. Research from Symantec Corp. identified five areas of concern with the two apps — three with Kasich’s and two with Cruz’s — that could allow personal data to be ...

In what will be the first big virtual reality hit and a key driver behind the adoption of the technology, Microsoft-owned Mojang has announced that Minecraft is now available for the Samsung Gear VR. Minecraft: Gear VR Edition is now available in the Oculus Store for $6.99 and offers all the features of the Pocket ...

Music streaming provider Spotify AB has acquired live event content aggregator CrowdAlbum, Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013 by Tracy Chan, the former head of data and analytics for YouTube (Google, Inc.), CrowdAlbum creates albums of live events based on the location and time of photos and videos people share on social media ...

Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. reported its first quarter results Tuesday, and although the company finally saw some slight user growth, its revenue fell below market expectations. The company made $595 million in revenue for the quarter. That’s below the $607.8 million analysts expected, but up 36 percent from the $436 million Twitter brought ...

The 13-year long growth streak for Apple, Inc. has come to an end with the tech giant reporting declining sales and revenue in its second quarter financial report Tuesday. Apple reported revenue of $50.6 billion and quarterly net income of $10.5 billion or $1.90 per diluted share for the quarter compared to $58 billion and ...

The security flaws that lead to an audacious heist of Bangladesh’s Central Bank have been found to be in software used globally to facilitate transfers between banks. Bangladesh Bank had $81 million stolen from them in February (the figure was first thought to be $100 million), and at the time they claimed that the funds ...

Mobile live streaming service Kamcord, Inc. has raised $10 million Series C in a round led by Time Warner that included existing investors Tencent, TransLink Capital, XG Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures and Wargaming. According to reports, the round was raised at a valuation of “more than $100 million.” Founded in 2012 as a way ...

Concerned at the growing popularity of Snapchat (Snapchat, Inc.), Facebook, Inc. is said to be designing its own dedicated camera app, according to a report Monday. The Wall Street Journal claims the new, as yet unnamed app has been under development by a team in London and allows people to live stream video in addition ...

Another person involved in the operation of failed Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx has been arrested following the ongoing investigation by Federal Authorities into the case. 65-year-old Michael Murgio from Palm Beach County, Florida, the father of Anthony Murgio who was arrested back in July in relation to the operation of the exchange, has been indicted in ...

Former fired Reddit Vice President Dan McComas is back, currently testing a new competing social sharing site that will offer “healthy, positive communities.” Called Imzy, the site itself is currently in private beta testing, and has groups dedicated to video games, music, movies and over 400 others, which according to TNW will give content creators a ...