Machine to Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) space has boomed in 2015, but bigger things are ahead as the market continues to explode and reach into every aspect of our lives, even down to things like Internet-enabled light bulbs. According to Vodafone Group Plc, more than a quarter of all companies worldwide ...

Victims of Hunter Moore, the owner and operator of the now-defunct revenge porn site Is Anyone Up?, have had the last laugh after he was sent to jail for 30 months for crimes committed when running the site. The sentence was imposed by a federal judge in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday, along with a ...

Uber Technologies, Inc.’s main competitors in China, the United States, Southeast Asia and India — Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi, Inc.), Lyft, Inc., GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd., and India’s Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), respectively — have announced a global alliance to take on the mighty unicorn across the globe. Under the deal, users of each ...

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 ...