Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired SkyBox, a software plugin that connects Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to various Adobe products. As part of the deal, Chris Bobotis, co-founder of SkyBox creator Mettle Inc., is joining Adobe as director of professional video. First released in 2015, Mettle’s SkyBox is designed to facilitate ...

Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned late Tuesday as chief executive officer of the ride-hailing giant following a shareholder revolt over his troubled tenure. First reported by The New York Times and not confirmed officially by Uber as of midnight PDT Tuesday, Kalanick’s departure comes after reports that a group of Uber’s institutional investors, including venture capital ...

In a surprising twist to a possible forthcoming antitrust trial, Microsoft Corp. has admitted that it does disable some third-party antivirus software, but only because of compatibility issues. The admission comes following a complaint Russian antivirus software maker Kaspersky Lab filed with the European Commission and the German federal cartel office. It claims that Microsoft prevents makers of security software ...

Microsoft Corp.-owned messaging service Skype suffered a serious outage Tuesday that affected users across the United States, Europe and parts of Asia. The cause of the outage has not been officially revealed. Skype said only that it was aware “of an incident where users will either lose connectivity to the application or may be unable ...

Apple Inc. has escalated its argument in its patent royalties case against Qualcomm Technologies Inc. with a new filing arguing that its licensing agreement with the chip maker is invalid because it constitutes illegal double-dipping. The $1 billion lawsuit, filed by Apple in January, alleges the Qualcomm has been charging over-the-top patent licensing fees for years ...

A South Korean hosting company has paid what is believed to be a record high payment after their servers were taken over by ransomware. The attack, which targeted the Internet company Nayana Inc., saw 153 Linux servers at the company hosting 3,400 websites taken over and controlled on June 10. A variant of the Erebus ransomware, ...

In a case that some may regard as “cultural appropriation” from its cousin north of the border, the Mexican government has been caught attempting to illegally hack phones through the use of a coordinated malware campaign that targeted journalists, lawyers and political activists. The campaign, as detailed in a joint report from R3D, SocialTic, Article 19 ...

Fresh from a previous bill that would decentralize drone regulations, a new bipartisan bill presented to the House of Representatives Monday proposes that state and local governments be allowed to make their own laws on drones flying within their jurisdictions. The Drone Innovation Act, H.R 2930, put forward by Republican Congressman Jason Lewis (pictured) with support ...

Cloud storage provider Dropbox Inc. has announced that it is massively expanding its edge network 15 months after it decided to leave Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud to host its data in-house. The expansion will see the yet-to-go-public startup deploy its own custom-built proxy stack built on open-source code in multiple North American locations. The goal ...

Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with management consulting firm Accenture PLC to design a blockchain-based platform that provides identification services to people worldwide. Presented at the United Nations Monday, the platform is intended to help people such as refugees who have lost their documents to prove whom they are in order to gain access to ...