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Amazon backs mammoth $1.3B funding round for Tesla rival Rivian

By Maria Deutscher Dec 23, 2019

Rivian Automotive Inc., an electric vehicle startup tapped by Amazon.com Inc. to supply 100,000 vans for its delivery fleet, today announced that it has raised $1.3 billion in funding from the online retail giant…

Blockchain

Hackers steal $480,000 in NULS tokens from blockchain platform

By Kyt Dotson Dec 23, 2019

The distributed ledger blockchain platform Nuls announced Sunday in a tweet that thieves have stolen about $480,000 worth of NULS tokens in a hack. The platform’s operators detected 2 million NULS transferred and 548,354…

Blockchain

Holiday cheer as bitcoin bounces from its lowest level since May

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2019

After a fairly lackluster performance over the last four weeks, bitcoin investors may have something to cheer coming into Christmas as the cryptocurrency surged to its highest level in a month today. For the…

Security

Card data stolen in point-of-sale hack of Wawa stores and gas stations

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2019

The year’s almost done but the data breaches keep on coming, and the latest involves East Coast convenience store and gas station operator Wawa Inc., which has suffered a point-of-sale hack. The data breach…

Security

Calling TikTok a ‘cybersecurity threat,’ US Navy bans popular social media app

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2019

The U.S. Navy has banned the popular social media app TikTok from mobile devices over increasing concerns that the Chinese-owned app presents a security risk. The ban, issued during last week, applies to all…

Infra

Italian minister says Huawei should not be banned from 5G rollout

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2019

China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been given a boost after Italy’s new minister of economic development, Stefano Patuanelli, said it should be allowed to participate in the rollout of new 5G networking services…

Apps

ToTok messaging app claimed to be an Emirati surveillance tool

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2019

ToTok, a popular Middle Eastern messaging app launched earlier this year, is actually a mass-surveillance tool, according to a report today from the New York Times. Pitched as a secure alternative to services such as WhatsApp…

Cloud

To take on Amazon, Walmart looks to ‘supercenters,’ edge computing and 5G

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2019

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is looking to leverage its existing chain of “supercenters” to gain an edge over its longtime rival Amazon.com Inc. Rather than trying to take on its main rival in…

Cloud

Get ready for cultural upheaval: Businesses learn that becoming digital means transforming in more ways than one

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Dec 22, 2019

The problems in traditional workplace culture aren’t new. Today’s compartmentalized workplace has its roots in the mechanization and standardization of the industrial revolution, when workers were regarded very differently than they are today. But the…

Big Data

Mapping data provider Here sells 30% stake to NTT and Mitsubishi

By Maria Deutscher Dec 20, 2019

Here Global N.V., a major provider of mapping data for industries such as the auto sector, today said that it has sold a 30% equity stake to Japan’s NTT Corp. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. …

all stories

Amazon backs mammoth $1.3B funding round for Tesla rival Rivian

Hackers steal $480,000 in NULS tokens from blockchain platform

Holiday cheer as bitcoin bounces from its lowest level since May

Card data stolen in point-of-sale hack of Wawa stores and gas stations

Calling TikTok a ‘cybersecurity threat,’ US Navy bans popular social media app

Italian minister says Huawei should not be banned from 5G rollout

ToTok messaging app claimed to be an Emirati surveillance tool

To take on Amazon, Walmart looks to ‘supercenters,’ edge computing and 5G

Mapping data provider Here sells 30% stake to NTT and Mitsubishi

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