International Business Machines Corp. has acquired Salesforce consulting firm Bluewolf Consulting LLC. Terms of the deal were not officially disclosed but the price is reported by Re/Code to be $200 million. Founded in 2000 and providing services to Salesforce since 2002, Bluewolf claims that their technology-driven method combines their team’s years of experience with cloud ...

Microsoft, Corp. and Canonical Ltd have announced a new partnership that will see the Ubuntu Linux command-line tool Bash come to Windows 10. The new support comes not via running a virtual machine or emulator (which has been possible previously), but through native Ubuntu Linux binaries being baked directly into Windows 10 using the technology ...

Blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings, LLC has signed a new deal with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. to trial the company’s Blockchain technology at the firm. Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a post-trade clearing manager, will trial Digital Asset’s Blockchain derived platform to manage financial repos (repurchasing agreements), a form of short-term borrowing for ...

Music streaming provider Spotify AB has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from TPG Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. According to reports, the deal comes with some strict guarantees, including TPG and Drogoneer being able to convert the debt to equity at a 20 percent discount of whatever price set when the company presents its ...

Google, Inc. is now officially a proper telco with the company announcing Tuesday that is was launching a home phone service. Called Fiber Home, the new service gives anyone with a Basic, Gig, and Gig TV Google Fiber connection access to a landline connection for $10 a month, with the fee including unlimited local and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known by its acronym MIT, has announced the creation of the Bitcoin Development Fund to cover salaries, travel and work costs of Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields, the three leading developers of the Bitcoin Core project. In a positive sign of widespread support for the ...

Bitcoin startup Coinkite, Inc. has announced that it is closing down its secure Bitcoin wallet service in order to focus on building hardware-based Bitcoin products instead. Founded in 2012, Coinkite billed itself as the easiest and safest way to use and accept Bitcoin, along with the claim that if offered “the world’s most advanced web ...

Received a speeding ticket via email lately? First, the vast majority of Police Departments do not email speeding tickets, but secondly, you may also have malware installed on your mobile phone. Although not officially confirmed, police in Pennsylvania believe that a “free mobility or traffic APP” may have been utilized in a new scam which ...

Apple has been let off the hook in the contentious iPhone unlocking case after the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Monday that it was dropping the case. In a notice of withdrawal, the DoJ explained that they had found a way to access the iPhone used by San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, saying specifically ...

The Samsung Galaxy S7 was revealed to the world back in February, and subsequently went on sale March 11 in the United States and globally in the weeks that followed. SiliconANGLE’s Duncan Riley recently purchased one and reviews it as follows. When the Samsung Galaxy S7 appeared in my local Samsung store last week I ...