Apple fanboys hoping for a refreshed iPhone model will have to wait until 2017 with a report Tuesday that the model being released this year will be largely unchanged compared to the previous two models. The Wall Street Journal claims the next iPhone model will essentially be an iPhone 6ss in that it will keep ...

A larger group of popular musicians have backed a new campaign calling for the reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) on the basis that it allows the Google-owned YouTube to host their music on unfair terms. The 180 artists, including Paul McCartney and the outspoken Taylor Swift, are specifically demanding a reexamination of the DMCA’s ...

Streaming music service provider Spotify AB has announced that it now has 100 million active users despite increasing competition from the likes Apple Music. The company told The Telegraph that its user numbers were increasing at the rate of 1.3 million users a month, however, most of those users are only signing up to the ...

Cloud communications company Twilio, Inc. announced the terms of its forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) Monday. The company said in a filing that it plans to offer 10 million shares priced between $12 and $14; according to Marketwatch at the top of that range, Twilio would raise up to $161 million, not including options granted to ...

Bank backed Blockchain fintech development consortium R3 (R3CEV LLC) is working with the Bank of Canada and the Canadian Payments Association on a Blockchain powered payment transfer system, it was revealed Thursday. The Bank of Canada, Canada’s central bank, said that at this point they are only experimenting with the technology with the ultimate aim ...

Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. has raised even more money, this time in the form of $1 billion in debt financing. JPMorgan, Citigroup Inc, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp are said to have led the deal. The debt raising follows confirmation in December that Airbnb had raised $1.5 billion earlier in 2015. According ...

Google-backed augmented reality startup Magic Leap, Inc. has signed a deal with the Walt Disney Company owned Lucasfilm Ltd. to bring Star Wars characters to Magic Leap’s yet to be launched augmented reality headset. The announcement, made at the Wired Business Conference in New York Thursday, will see both companies (through Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB) establishing a ...

Twitter, Inc., Google, Inc., and Facebook, Inc. are being sued by the father of a victim of the Paris Islamic terrorist attacks in November 2015 on the basis that the companies “provided material support” to the terrorist group The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, better known as ISIS. Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of ...

Online bank WB21 Group Holdings SA has announced that it has added Bitcoin as a method for its customers to transfer and deposit funds to their checking accounts, making them the first registered bank to do so. WB21, for those not familiar with the company, is a London-based digital bank with an office in Palo ...

Notorious spammer Sanford Wallace, better known by his self-proclaimed nickname of “spam king,” is going to jail after being found guilty of electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court. Wallace was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $310,628.55 in restitution according to local reports. Sanford stood accused of hacking into ...