By today’s highly interactive standards, the earliest web pages were a pretty dull affair. In the 1990s world of Web 1.0, pages were static without much in the way of video, sound or transformative graphics. The era of Web 2.0 ushered in user-generated content and an explosion of social platforms, coupled with vastly improved technology that made ...

It’s shaping up to be a “Black August” for the digital token world. The cyptocurrency market lost $43 billion over five days this month. Is it time to panic? “The insiders are somewhat scared or saying they’ve seen this movie before,” said John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during this week’s Global ...

Asked to name one of the nations’ historic centers for the internet’s growth, many people would likely single out Silicon Valley. Yet, a small suburban area of Virginia, formerly the home of gravel pits and dairy farms, occupies its own place in the tech story. Tysons Corner, Virginia, is where Steve Case worked to get ...

There were more than 546,000 open computing jobs in the U.S. and only 49,000 computer science students graduated into the workforce last year, according to Code.org. By any definition, that’s a skills gap, and Amazon Web Services Inc. has partnered with a prominent national training organization to do something about it. The nonprofit organization Project Lead the ...

How important is the stability of the internet to the world? All of a sudden, the onetime repository for cat videos and cookie recipes has become critically important, because the stakes are infinitely higher than they were a decade ago. Yet a growing communications gap between the technology community and U.S. policy makers is raising ...

When the blockchain delivered encrypted ledgers a decade ago, the world’s largest financial institutions seemed interested in the technology driving the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but were hardly motivated to build a business around it. Things are different now. Global giant Mastercard International Inc. represents a prominent example. In the space of the past nine months, the credit and debit card ...

In the heat of the desert summer, when the annual cybersecurity circus known as Black Hat comes to Las Vegas, no industry or technology is safe. Flaws are found, vulnerabilities are identified, fixes are issued (or not) and life in the digital world goes perilously onward. This week’s Black Hat USA 2018 gathering was no ...

It might be hard to imagine, but the future of the industrial internet of things could well be symbolized by the much-beloved rubber duck. Ever since a sculptor patented a now-familiar rubber duck design in 1949, the iconic bath toy has steadily worked its way into global culture. It’s the name of a minor league baseball ...

It wasn’t love at first sight, and it has taken a lot of conversation on both sides, but regulators and participants in the burgeoning token economy are sending signals that they are getting to know each other a lot better. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report, titled “Nonbank Financials, Fintech ...

Sometimes a business does so well that results outpace network systems. LendingClub Corp. is just such a story. In the last quarter of 2011, LendingClub issued 42,000 loans valued at $480 million. By the fourth quarter, close to six years later, the company processed 2.7 million loans with a total value in excess of $33 billion. But ...