A new report from security firm Bit9 + Carbon Black, Inc. has found the perception that Apple’s Mac range of computers are safe from viruses is incorrect with 2015 said to be the worst year ever for OS X malware. The report came from a 10-week analysis conducted by the company that demonstrated in 2015 ...

Piss-take: “an unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.” Wikitionary. In what has to be one of the biggest jokes in recent history, Twitter Chief Executive Office Jack Dorsey is appealing to developers to return to the service, despite the fact the company literally burned all previous developers it worked with several years back. ...

Western Digital Corp. has acquired rival SanDisk Corp. for a whopping $19 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal values SanDisk at $86.50 a share, a 15% premium over Tuesday’s close; of note SanDisk traded at less than $60 a share earlier this month before rumors of a possible sale started doing the ...

Following rumors going back over 6 months, Google has finally entered the paid video subscription market with a new service called YouTube Red. The new service is said to deliver users the ability to view videos across all of YouTube without ads, while also allowing videos to be saved to watch offline on a phone ...

Can Google launch a new product and not see it sink like a mafia victim thrown into the sea with a concrete block tethered to their ankles? Bad analogies aside, the answer is surprisingly yes, with the search giant announcing Tuesday that Google Photos has hit over 100 million users, remarkably only five months since ...

Yahoo, Inc. is returning home with an announcement Tuesday that they have signed a deal with Google to provide search results and advertising. According to reports the deal will see Google will provide web search results, search ads and image search services for an unspecified number of Yahoo user queries, on both desktop and mobile ...

What’s the best way for a startup or enterprise to disclose a data breach? It’s sadly a question more and more companies are faced with in 2015 as various bad actors, some even state sponsored, hack into more and more user databases, be it for various reasons, from the pure thrill of doing so, through ...

A now former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent has been sent to prison for 78 months after pleading guilty to stealing Bitcoins during the Federal investigation that brought down notorious drug marketplace Silk Road. According to reports Carl Force, the former agent, admitted to charges including extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice. Despite pleading ...

Google is taking the SaaS fight to rivals Microsoft and IBM with a new offer that provides its Google Apps for Work for free when a company has an existing enterprise agreement (EA) with another provider. Google to its credit didn’t name Microsoft or IBM in its official announcement about the new offer, but it ...

Time, Inc. has acquired women-focused lifestyle site Hello Giggles, Inc. for a figure around $20-$30 million. The terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, however, The Wall Street Journal puts the figure at “in the range of $20 million” whereas The Hollywood Report puts it at “around $30 million.” Founded in 2011 by TV ...