Cryptocurrencies have plunged across the board after South Korean exchange Coinrail disclosed it had been hacked on Sunday. Bitcoin led the pack, dropping as much as 12 percent to a three-month low of $6,673.08 before recovering slightly to $6,781.20 as of 10:25 p.m. EDT. Other leading cryptocurrencies all dropped by similar levels, with Ethereum down ...

Yahoo, now a division of Oath Inc., is finally shutting down its Messenger service despite an attempt to resurrect the service a few years back. Launched on March 9, 1998, Yahoo Messenger competed with the likes of MSN Messenger, AIM and ICQ, the last its original target. Along with Yahoo itself, the service rode the same ...

Microsoft Corp. is tapping into its Azure cloud infrastructure team to develop a new game streaming service that will deliver XBox-quality games to a range of other devices. The announcement Sunday of the as-yet unnamed service was made by Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s executive director of gaming, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles and ...

The first alleged pictures of Google Inc.’s forthcoming Pixel 3 XL smartphone have found their way online and, once again per previous reports, it seems it will come with an iPhone X-style notch. The images, which first appeared on the XDA-Developers forum on Wednesday, show the notch along with a bezel known as a chin at the ...

A ransomware attack that crippled the City of Atlanta in March was far worse than initially thought and could end up costing the city an additional $9.5 million, despite a ransom demand of only $51,000 to provide all the keys for affected systems given at the time. The attack affected one-third of 424 programs used by city ...

Congress, led by bipartisan legislation being pushed in the Senate, is attempting to block a deal between the Trump administration and Chinese electronics maker ZTE Corp. that was only agreed to early Thursday morning. The long-rumored deal, pushed as a way to improve trade relations between the two countries, will see ZTE pay a new ...

Both Zscaler Inc. and Carbon Black Inc. have delivered their first post-initial public offering quarterly financial reports, but though both companies’ results beat market estimates, it was Zscaler’s stunning numbers that gained most of the attention. For the quarter ending April 30, Zscaler on Wednesday reported total revenue was $49.2 million, a jump of 49 percent over the same ...

Blockchain gaming startup EON Foundation has raised $5 million in seed funding from Cherubic Ventures, Wei Guo and Feng Li to build out its decentralized gaming platform. With offices in Palo Alto, California, and Singapore, the EON Foundation is developing the EON Protocol, a platform designed to assist developers reach more players at less cost. ...

Cryptocurrency and blockchain platform provider Circle Internet Financial Inc. is seeking to go where no crypto startup has gone before: attempting to become a legally registered bank. In a bizarre turn of events, Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Circle is seeking a federal banking license to provide more services to customers. It also intends to pursue registration ...

Coinbase Inc., the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, has acquired three different companies in a push to offer customers additional financial services. Leading the acquisition list was Keystone Capital Inc., a California-based Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. registered broker. According to The Wall Street Journal, it can also operate as a registered investment adviser as well ...