Chinese ridesharing service and Uber, Inc. rival Didi Chuxing Technology Co. (formerly Didi Kuaidi) has raised $7 billion in new capital that included $4.5 billion in traditional fundraising and a debt facility of $2.5 billion. The $4.5 billion includes a previously disclosed $1 billion investment by Apple, Inc., and $600 million from China Life Insurance ...

Apple, Inc.’s latest web browser Safari 10, which will ship later this year with macOS Sierra, will disable common plug-ins and preference HTML 5 content in an effort to improve the web browsing experience. The new browser will disable Adobe Flash, Java, Silverlight, and even Apple’s QuickTime by default. Users who reach a page that ...

Remember dial-up modems and Yahoo Messenger? The first is a long gone memory, but the original Yahoo Messenger, launched in 1998, has somehow managed to keep going, that is until now with Yahoo, Inc. announcing that the original service, as opposed to its new version (which goes by the same name) will be closed August ...

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 ...