Apple looks set to expand its lineup of iPhones in the new year with a report that it’s preparing to ship a new phone. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, famed for accurate Apple predictions, has issued a research note with details of the new phone, believed to be called the iPhone 6c, which like the ...

Multinational investment banking firm Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. has predicted a strong future for blockchain technology, the distributed digital ledger that powers Bitcoin. The group sent an Emerging Theme Radar research note to clients Wednesday, saying, “While the Bitcoin hype cycle has gone quiet, Silicon Valley and Wall Street are betting that the underlying technology ...

A survey of startups has found that it’s not just skeptical tech journalists who believe that we’re in the middle of the second great tech bubble that is close to bursting, but startup founders as well. The “State of Startups” survey, from First Round Capital, of 500 startup founders of venture capital-backed startups found that ...

Spotify AG has taken the crown as the world’s most popular music streaming service for the first time, according to a report released Tuesday. The App Annie Europe, Ltd. “Mobile Music Streaming: Driving The Next Digital Revolution” report found that mobile music streaming is booming globally and likewise is creating “huge” opportunities for app publishers ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has updated its mid-range Galaxy A series phones, with the range now gaining features previously only seen in the flagship Note and S series devices. The main upgrade to the Galaxy A (2016) phones, which include the 4.7-inch A3, 5.2-inch A5, and the 5.5-inch A7, is support for mobile payments service ...

A report from Adobe Systems, Inc. has found that 2015 saw a new record high for sales on Cyber Monday, America’s annual online sales event. According to the report, which was based on the analysis of aggregated and anonymous data of more than 125 million visits to 4,500 retail websites on Cyber Monday, a record ...

The saga of the GAW Miners and related subsidiaries, including Paybase and the altcoin Paycoin, is finally heading to court, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing charges Monday against founder Homero Joshua (Josh) Garza. In a statement, the commission accuses Garza of having perpetrated fraud through GAW Miners and the lesser ...

Users of the increasingly popular tiny and affordable computer the Raspberry Pi may be exposed to security issues due to the operating system on the device generating weak and predictable secure shell (SSH) keys. The flaw in the Raspbian operating system was discovered by a user named “oittaa” who revealed on the Raspberry Pi forums that ...

Bitcoin reputation startup Bonafide IO, Inc. is no longer of this world, with the company having decided to cease operations. Founded in 2013, Bonafide offered a trust platform that allowed Bitcoin users to promote their community and identify. The general aim of the service was to provide a way for merchants and others dealing with Bitcoin ...

The news for children’s toy maker VTech Holdings Ltd. went from bad to worse Monday with the disclosure that a data breach included photos of children and their chat logs. Disclosure of the hack of VTech’s Learning Lodge, its app store for its range of electronic children’s products catering to infants through preschoolers, first came to light ...