Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is likely only a few months away from launching its latest flagship Galaxy S7 phone, and with the proximity to its release, a new range of feature rumors have started doing the rounds. According to the proverbial “people familiar with the matter” quoted by The Wall Street Journal, the Samsung Galaxy ...

Unless you’ve been sleeping in a cave, you’d know by now that 2015 was a huge year for data breaches, with many high-profile targets succumbing to bad actors. But what were the biggest breaches of the year? B2B technology public relations agency 10Fold, Inc. analyzed the year that was and came up with its top seven ...

Craig Wright, the man suspected to be Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, is in the news again after it was revealed he attempted to sell a large amount of the cyptocurrency for gold. According to court documents obtained by The Australian newspaper, Wright alleged to have attempted to purchase AU$84.25 million (US$60.7 million) worth of gold ...

A number of high-profile tech entrepreneurs have established OpenAI, Inc. a new not-for-profit company that aims to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) that doesn’t morph into killer robots. The company launched Friday with $1 billion in donations from tech giants Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Jessica Livingston and Reid Hoffman and has as its goal the ...

Apple, Inc.’s ongoing relationship with singer Taylor Swift has ratcheted up a notch with news over the weekend that the tech giant has gained exclusive rights to the stars’ new video. The 1989 World Tour Live video was filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ (Olympic) Stadium in Sydney, Australia, on November 28, 2015, and ...

Are attacks by trolls so out of control that potential future victims of cyberbullying need insurance? Either the justified or irrational fear that the answer to that question is yes has driven multinational insurance firm Chubb Corp. to offer troll insurance in the United Kingdom. Cyberbullying is defined by the insurer as “three or more ...

2015 was a year of record data breaches, driving home the risks faced by both enterprise and Government as bad actors continue to up the security risk ante. That said the year past was marked by a strategic shift from a maniacal focus on prevention, toward greater balance on monitoring, detection, and response capabilities, Amit ...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), best known as the body that facilitates international bank transfers, is riding with the times with a new initiative that will see it explore the possibilities of the Blockchain, the distributed digital ledger that powered Bitcoin. The move, called the Global Payments Innovation Initiative (GPI) will see ...

Machine-powered analysis startup DataScience, Inc. has raised $22 million Series B in a round led by Whitehard Ventures. Founded in 2014, DataScience aims to help companies spend less time analyzing data and more time implementing decisions based on their data through actionable insights. The company gathers data from customers in real-time or as flat files, ...

Shares in SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Corporation PLC, Australia’s biggest tech company, surged on their NASDAQ debut Thursday. The stock, which floated at $21 a share, hit an intraday high of $28.21 per share before settling at $27.78 at the ring of the bell, up 32.29 percent. In after-hours trading Atlassian stock was up ...