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Seattle-based search startup Atlas Informatics Inc. has raised $20.7 million in a round whose investors include Microsoft Corp., former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold and Aspect Ventures. Founded in 2015, the company currently offers Atlas Recall, a “search engine for your …
Qualcomm earnings outpace forecasts thanks to Chinese patent deals
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. reported a better-than-expected rise in revenue for the fourth quarter ending Sept. 30 assisted by strong demand from China. The semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company reported revenue of $6.2 billion for the quarter on net income of $1.6 billion, …
Researchers discover macOS malware using Google’s Adwords
Researchers at security firm Cylance Inc. have discovered a new malvertising campaign that targets Apple Inc.’s macOS users through fake software downloads. Disturbingly being offered on Google’s Adwords advertising network, the malvertising offers a copy of Google’s own Chrome web browser. If …
IBM acquires Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant XPS
IBM Corp. has acquired Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant Expert Personal Shopper from digital commerce firm Fluid Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Built using machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver expert advice that sounds like it’s coming from an actual human, XPS …
Uber and GM announce car rental trial for drivers in San Francisco
Uber Technologies Inc. and General Motors Co. have signed a new deal that will see the automotive giant rent cars to Uber drivers through its Maven rental service. The deal, announced Tuesday, will initially begin as a 90-day trial in Uber’s hometown …
Owner of cyber attack service Titanium Stresser owner pleads guilty
A man accused of running cyber attack-for-hire service Titanium Stresser has pleaded guilty to multiples charges in relation to his ownership and use of the service. Nineteen-year-old Adam Mudd from Kings Langley, a town north of London in the United Kingdom, pleaded …
Palantir beats the Army over battle to allow project bid
Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has won a case against the United States Army in which it claimed it was unfairly shut out of the bid process to work on the Army’s Distributed Common Ground System. According to Bloomberg, the …
Shadow Brokers releases list of servers hacked by the NSA
Notorious hacking group the Shadow Brokers is back in the news after it published a list of servers claimed to have been compromised by the National Security Agency-linked Equation Group. The group had previously claimed to have hacked the Equation Group and …
New device can hijack consumer drones using widespread vulnerability
A new device revealed at a security conference in Japan last week can hijack consumer drones, by exploiting a vulnerability in the frequency-hopping systems used to protect radio communications between an operator and the drone itself. The “Icarus” device, a form of …
Toyota invests $10 million in car sharing service Getaround
Toyota Motor Corp. has invested in San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing service Getaround Inc. through its Mirai Creation Investment Limited Partnership, in a Series C round believed to be $10 million. Founded in 2009, the company calls itself an “on-demand carsharing community” that …