Customers of bitcoin exchange Bitfinex (BTXNA, Inc.) are being offered equity in the company in compensation for the losses imposed on them, following the hacking of the exchange in early August. Under the deal, customers who were issued BFX tokens following the decision by the company to socialize the losses caused by the hack will ...

Your news feed on Facebook may soon become a more noisy experience, with the social network giant now testing auto-playing videos with the sound turned on. First spotted by Mashable, the trial of auto-audio is currently underway in Australia with one version of the test seeing sound playing immediately as the video begins (note the videos ...

Advertising technology platform The Trade Desk Inc. has filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “TTD.” Serving as underwriters for the initial public offering (IPO) are Citigroup, Jefferies, and RBC who will be assisting the company in raising $86.3 million. Founded in 2009, The Trade Desk offers a self-service platform that ...

Controversial cheating website Ashley Madison has been slapped down by regulators in Canada and Australia for poor security following its now infamous hacking in 2015. A joint investigation by the offices of the Australian and Canadian privacy commissioners found that that the service had inadequate safeguards in place, including poor password management and a fabricated ...

Search giant Google has announced that it will punish the mobile rankings of sites that use interstitial pop-ups, starting in January 2017. If you’re not familiar with the term, an interstitial is traditionally a page displayed before or after an expected content page. In the case of mobile sites, they’re displayed as pop-up overlays that block access ...

Apple is said to have acquired health data startup Gliimpse, Inc., according to a report published Monday. Fast Company claims that the acquisition occurred earlier this year but was never publicly announced, although as is standard for an Apple acquisition, the tech giant issued its standard statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to ...

Google has released the latest version of its mobile operating system Android with version 7.0, dubbed Nougat, now available. The new version of Android comes with an impressive range of upgrades from Android Marshmallow 6.0, including new multitasking capabilities that allow users to do two things at once on a device running Android. Along with ...

A new report from security firm buguroo (BUGUROO OFFENSIVE SECURITY S.L.) has revealed a new campaign targeting global banks and finance companies that is utilizing more effective versions of the infamous Gozi trojan. According to the report, targeted companies include PayPal, CitiDirect BE, ING Bank, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, the Bank of Tokyo and others ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Inc. has confirmed that it has acquired the intellectual property assets of enterprise bitcoin payments processor Bitnet Technologies Ltd. Using the intellectual property (IP) obtained and a number of Bitnet employees, the company also announced that it was  opening a blockchain development lab in the United Kingdom. The Rakuten Blockchain Lab, ...

Ridesharing service provider Lyft, Inc. unsuccessfully approached a number of high profile companies in an attempt to sell itself, according to a report published Saturday. The New York Times claims that the company approached General Motors Corp., Apple, Inc., Google, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Uber, Inc., and Didi Chuxing Technology Co. as potential acquirers but beyond ...