Apple’s efforts to deliver its long-rumored iCar may have hit a rather serious pothole with recent news that the company has laid off dozens of employees as part of a “reboot” of the project. The New York Times claims that the reboot sees the tech giant refocus from building its own car to instead building ...

Twitter Inc. has seemingly not completely forgotten its core microblogging come messaging service as it tries to reinvent itself as a live online sports broadcaster. On Thursday, the company announced upgrades to its direct messaging. Top of the list is the addition of read receipts, a feature found commonly on other messaging platforms. As the ...

The march of HTML 5 dominance across the web has received an arousing boost with the news that popular porn site Pornhub is dumping flash in favor of the open web standard. Whereas porn usually leads when it comes to embracing new technologies, the decision by Pornhub to abandon Flash was a case where instead it ...

Online sales marketplace OfferUp Inc. has raised $119 million Series C in a round led by Warburg Pincus and including GGV Capital and Altimeter Capital. According to reports, the valuation on the round was $1 billion-plus, giving the company unicorn status for the first time. Founded in 2011, OfferUp offers a mobile-focused marketplace that is ...

Digital ID verification firm Jumio Corp. has raised $15 million in a new round that included Centana Growth Partners LP and Millennium Technology Value Partners. Founded in 2010, Jumio offers next-generation digital ID verification that is claimed to enable businesses to reduce fraud and increase revenue while providing a fast, seamless customer experience. The company’s ...

Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Fox News, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Mozilla Foundation are supporting a court case brought by Microsoft against the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) that is attempting to put an end to a law that prevents companies informing their customers about government data requests. The law, the Electronic Communications ...

Video infrastructure startup Bitmovin, Inc. has raises $10.3 million Series A in a round led by Atomico. Founded in 2013, Bitmovin offers a platform that improves video quality on the web by enabling “fastest cloud encoding” by using a proprietary encoding service. The company claims to achieve this by providing implementations of technologies and standards, ...

Another day, another revelation about a historical hack. Following on from Dropbox, Inc. earlier this week comes details from the hacking of music website Last.fm in 2012. According to breach notification site LeakedSource, who obtained a copy of the database obtained in the hack, the details of 43,570,999 were obtained by the hacker who breached ...

Google is said to have scrapped its plans to bring to market its Project Ara modular smartphone as part of a push to streamline its hardware efforts according to an unconfirmed report published Thursday. Reuters makes the claim quoting “sources familiar with the matter” but does note that Google may still work with partners to ...

In a serious blow to its global resurgence as the world’s most popular smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is preparing a global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 due to a manufacturing default, according to a report from South Korea published Thursday. The Yonhap News Agency claims that Samsung will announce the recall in ...