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 ...

Financial projections given to potential buyers of Yahoo, Inc. show that the company is in serious free-fall, according to a report Wednesday. A copy of what is known as the “sales book” was seen by Kara Swisher at Re/Code and is said to show that Yahoo expects its revenue to drop by 15 percent for ...

It may have been the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz who wanted a heart, but perhaps some of the folks at smart home device maker Nest Labs, Inc. may have magically discovered one as well with news that the company may offer compensation to those affected by its decision to brick Revolv smart ...

Cloud-based email management firm Mimecast Ltd has announced the general availability of Impersonation Protect, a new service billed as the first cloud product that directly combats spear-phishing email attacks where company officers are impersonated, also known by names including CEO Fraud, Business Email Compromise or whaling. The new product uses advanced scanning techniques to prevent ...

In a positive sign for victims of failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) a court has taken possession of the company’s assets, appointed a receiver and has suspended all powers of the company’s agents, employees, officers, and directors. The order came from the United State District Court South District of Florida in the case ...

The lawyers at the center of a scandal surrounding the release of data pertaining to the use of offshore accounts by the rich and famous have claimed that the data was obtained in a hack. If you’ve missed the story so far (and it would be hard to), the so-called “Panama Papers” are a staggering ...

Facebook, Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it had completed its rollout of end-to-end encryption, meaning that every message, photo, video, file, and voice message sent on the service will be unable to be seen by any third party, including law enforcement and WhatsApp itself. WhatsApp had previously started rolling out the feature last ...