In case you missed the news over the weekend, the company formerly known as Snapchat Inc., now simply known as Snap Inc., has entered the hardware game with a new pair of connected sunglasses by the name of “Spectacles” that allows users to take 10 seconds of video. The pair of glasses, which includes integrated video, ...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) may finally have some competition with a number of major global banks signing on with Ripple Labs Inc. to found a new group that will support a new global transfer system based on Ripple’s blockchain platform. Founding members of the Global Payments Steering Group (GPSG) are Bank ...

The drought in successful tech initial public offerings (IPOs) may be officially over as shares in cloud information technology management software firm Apptio Inc. surged on their debut Friday on the Nasdaq exchange. Shares in Apptio, offered at $16, surged as high as $24.60 before ending the day at $22.55, up almost 41 percent. Goldman, ...

Google Inc. launched its virtual reality (VR) software development kit (SDK) out of beta Thursday with support for its Daydream VR platform. The new official release adds native integration in Google’s VR platform for the Unity game development platform enabling Daydream developers to take full advantage of all of Unity’s optimizations in VR rendering, along ...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tax solutions provider Avalara Inc. has raised $96 million in a round that included Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus and Technology Crossover Ventures. According to reports, $50 million of the raise will go towards further expansion, while the remaining $46 million will be used to buy out existing investors. Founded in 2004, ...

Southeast Asian Uber Technologies Inc. rival GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd. has entered the self-driving car space with a new deal with nuTonomy that will see the two companies roll out self-driving taxis in Singapore. NuTonomy first rolled out its driverless taxi trial in August, beating Uber’s rollout of a similar trial in Pittsburgh this month, ...

In one of the largest hacks in history, Yahoo Inc. admitted Thursday that hackers were able to obtain the account details of more than 500 million users in a 2014 breach. The breach raised speculation about the potential impact on the Internet pioneer’s $4.8 billion deal to be acquired by Verizon Communications Inc. Yahoo said in ...

CloudFlare Inc. wants to put an end to the unencrypted internet with the rollout of a new suite of features including TLS 1.3, Opportunistic Encryption and Automatic HTTPS Rewrites. Leading the announcement is support for TLS 1.3, the latest version of Transport Layer Security that improves both speed and security for Internet users. TLS 1.3 ...

Twitter Inc. has signed an agreement with Bloomberg L.P. to stream the forthcoming U.S. presidential and vice presidential debates, its latest foray into becoming an online live streaming video service. Under the deal, Twitter will stream Bloomberg live broadcasts starting Monday, Sept. 26, with the stream also including special Bloomberg Politics programming thirty minutes before ...

Shares in advertising technology platform provider The Trade Desk Inc. surged in their stock market debut Wednesday, closing the first day of trading on the NASDAQ at $30.10, up 67 percent from an initial list price of $18. The company, which offers a self-service platform that enables ad buyers to manage data-driven advertising campaigns across various ...