Things continue to go from bad to worse for Uber Inc. with the Delhi Government banning the service, as it has also been revealed that the driver alleged of raping a passenger had previously been jailed for rape, and the company may be charged with negligence for allowing the rape to occur by failing to follow ...

Indian police arrested an Uber driver Sunday who allegedly raped a passenger Friday night November 5th. Local media says the driver attacked the 27-year-old woman, who works for a finance company, after she hired the cab in Gurgaon near Delhi. The woman said in her complaint to local police that after getting into the car she fell ...

The devastating hacking of Sony Corp’s internal systems has taken an interesting turn, with a source of the hacking being tracked to Bangkok, Thailand. The hack, which started late November is reported to have been traced to the 4 1/2 star St. Regis Hotel in Bangkok on December 1st, the dates where the hackers first started leaking hacked documents ...

Grocery delivery startup Instacart is reported to be in the process of raising more than $100 million in a Series C round of funding on a valuation of $2 billion. The valuation is a big increase from its $400 million valuation when it closed a $44 million Series B round in June 2014. San Francisco based ...

Habitat is a startup that aims to provide a home automation platform that takes products you already own and connect them to the Internet and your mobile devices. The Canadian company is currently looking to launch with four products that aim to make “home automation affordable, useful and enjoyable for everyone” that “don’t require an ...

T-Mobile has done it again, cancelling the planned launched of the LTE Nexus 9, despite promising availability for “early December.” The company previously delayed the release of the Nexus 6. The news unsurprisingly came via a leaked internal memo picked up by TMONews, which reads: Updated: Google Nexus 9 Launch Postponed (Retail, TPR, TPRi, EDPC) ...

Harvard based Xfund, a venture group that focuses on graduate startups closed its $100 million second fund Thursday. The fund, previously known as the Harvard Experiment Fund, is a joint venture between NEA, Breyer Capital, Accel Partners and Polaris Partners, with advice but not control coming from Harvard University. Xfund focuses on investing in early stage startups that ...

International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its quarterly server tracker results, finding that the worldwide server market increased 4.8 percent year on year in the third quarter. The increase brought the market to $12.7 billion, the second consecutive quarter the server market has expanded on a year-over-year basis. Server unit shipments were up 5.7 percent to ...

Ideal Lab Inc. is currently pitching its Dragonfly Futurefon on Indiegogo Inc.’s crowdfunding platform, an all-in-one device that is rather impressive. The Dragonfly combines a laptop, tablet and phone in one device, complete with two screens, a decently sized keyboard, a pop-out trackpad, built-in stylus, built-in tablet stand and USB ports. And it comes in two flavors: ...

Yahoo! Inc.’s deal with Mozilla Corp. to become the default search engine in the Firefox browser is paying dividends with stats released showing that Yahoo usage has tripled in Firefox 34 vs. Firefox 33. Web metrics company StatCounter reported that Yahoo usage on Firefox 34 in the U.S. on December 2 was 29.4 percent compared to ...