Apple, Inc. has issued a recall for plug adapters sold with Mac and iOS devices in large parts of the world between 2003 and 2015. Adapters sold in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil are affected, as well as plug adapters sold as part of Apple’s World Travel Adapter Kit. In an unprecedented ...

Apple, Inc. has acquired education technology startup LearnSprout, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Learnsprout makes tools that make student data from school information systems (SIS) more readily accessible. “Empowering educators to analyze and understand student data,” the company’s platform gives educators the ability to surface data on students’ attendance, grades, and other ...

Amazon.com, Inc. disappointed Wall Street Thursday with the company reporting fourth-quarter financial results that missed market expectations. Net sales in the quarter increased 22 percent to $35.7 billion compared with $29.3 billion in fourth quarter 2014, with the company noting that the figure would have been $1.2 billion, or 26 percent higher had it not ...

Interesting, new car insurance-finding service Insurify, Inc. has raised $2 million in seed funding in a round led by Rationalwave Capital Partners. Along with the funding the company’s has officially come out of beta and has also launched in a limited public release “Eva,” a virtual insurance agent that makes finding the best car insurance ...

Venture capital firm Blockchain Capital has announced the final closing of its second venture capital fund with over $13 million in committed capital, surpassing its fundraising target of $10 million. Founded in 2013, Blockchain Capital, as the name may suggest, is a venture capital firm that invests in blockchain-enabled technology companies, and was also the ...

Market analyst firm Visionmobile Ltd. has released a new “megatrends” report on the Internet of Things (IoT) market that finds that despite the hype surrounding the sector, more needs to be done to sustain developer involvement. “Developers are more and more the center of commercial strategy… if you’re not into developers, you’re not doing it ...

Big Data mobile gaming startup Icejam Games, Inc. has raised CAD$3 million ($2.13 million) Series A in a round led by Build Ventures. Founded in 2014, Icejam integrates real-world “Playable Data” into its games through utilizing any dataset or combination of datasets, whether live or historical, global or personal such as data generated by on-device ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. continues to bring in the big dollars, with the company reporting new record highs in both the fourth quarter and 2015 as a whole. Revenue at Facebook topped $5.84 billion in the fourth quarter, up just shy of $2 billion from the $3.85 billion it made in the same period ...

Deep linking startup Branch Metrics, Inc. has raised $35 million Series B in a round led by Founders Fund that included New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pejman Mar Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Zach Coelius, Ben Narasin, and Madrona Venture Group. Founded in 2014, Branch offers a deep linking and business analytics platform for mobile app developers that ...

New research from cyber security firm ThreatTrack Security has found that enterprises are losing ground when it comes to defending themselves from advanced persistent threats (APTs). The research, which involved a blind survey of 200 security professionals dealing with malware analysis, found that 80 percent of those surveyed report that defending their networks has become ...