Virtual reality (VR) is meant to be the next big thing, but how big will the market be? That’s a question Strategy Analytics has attempted to answer with new research predicting the total virtual reality market will hit $865 million in 2016. Of that number, the bulk of the value, 77 percent to be precise, ...

Surround WiFi maker Luma Home, Inc. has raised $12.5 million Series A in a round led by Accel that included Amazon.com, Inc., former AT&T Chief Executive Officer David Dorman, and existing investors Felicis Ventures, Base Ventures, BIP Capital, Relay Ventures, and Webb Investment Network. Founded in 2014, Luma is aiming to create the fastest, simplest, ...

In a widely expected move following Apple’s dispute with the Department of Justice over iPhone encryption, a new bill is to be put forward in the Senate that wouldn’t just force the likes of Apple to provide a backdoor to their devices, but would effectively ban end-to-end strong encryption altogether. Proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have revised their earnings projection for the first quarter upwards, as its flagship Galaxy S7 phone has won over the buying public and is proverbially going gangbusters in sales. Samsung said in a press release that it expected an operating profit for the first quarter to come in at 6.6 trillion won ...

Social new forum Reddit, Inc. has launched its first official smartphone apps. The official Reddit app for iOS and Android is the first time, despite the site being founded in 2005 and the current year being 2016, the highly popular site has offered its own apps, and they are described as being “sleek, simple apps ...

In a surprise turn of events the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that the method it used to gain access to the iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernadino terrorists won’t work on later iPhone models. The revelation came from FBI Director James Comey in a speech at Kenyon University where ...

As expected Verizon Communications, Inc. is set to make a bid to acquire Yahoo, Inc. next week, but in an unexpected turn of events they may be joined by Google, Inc., according to a report Thursday. Bloomberg claims that Verizon will also offer to acquire Yahoo Japan (currently majority owned by SoftBank Group Corp.) to ...

An Australian man previously identified as possibly being Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is believed to be close to officially outing himself. According to a report from The Financial Times Craig Steven Wright is preparing to officially make the announcement and that he is looking for backing in his verification from some of the industry’s biggest ...

Would you like to be paid Bitcoin to view advertising while browsing the web? If the answer is either yes or you’ve never thought about it before but it sounds like a great idea, you’re going to like the Brave browser (Brave Software, Inc.), a new browser set to launch in May that will do exactly ...

Rasmussen, Gallop, Nielsen. If those names are not familiar, they’re among the top political polling organizations in the United States and Google is wanting to add itself to the list. According to politics site The Hill, the Alphabet, Inc.-owned search giant is pitching a service called “Google Consumer Surveys” to staffers and operatives who work for ...