Cryptocurrency brokerage startup Tagomi Trading LLC has obtained a New York Department of Financial Services BitLicense, the 18th company to do so. A division of Tagomi Systems Inc., a startup backed by Peter Thiel and founded in 2017, the startup combines institutional-grade services with superior execution technology for digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Pitched as empowering institutional ...

Sixty-one people have been arrested and $4.5 million in cryptocurrency seized in a joint operation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that targeted drug dealing on the Darknet. Operation SaboTor, a play of the words sabotage and Tor, the software used to access the darknet, was undertaken by the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team ...

UC Browser, a web browser offered on the Google Play Store with more than 500 million downloads, has been found to contain a vulnerability that could allow hackers to insert malicious files on a user’s device. Discovered by researchers at antivirus firm Doctor Web Ltd. and revealed Tuesday, the vulnerability relates to how the browser ...

BitTorrent Inc. is taking a stab at livestreaming with the new BitTorrent Live, a mobile-focused social network that allows users to share live video and earn money for their efforts. Not to be confused with the former incarnation of BitTorrent Live, a TVlike service that was shut down in 2017, the new product is closer ...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx Inc. has been hacked and customer balances stolen in yet another cryptoheist. The first sign that something was not right at the exchange came Sunday, when a notice on the DragonEx website said that the company was “working on system maintenance due to data exception during which all trading and deposit and withdrawal ...

Chinese cryptocurrency hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc. has let its application to go public on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong lapse, yet another sign that things are not going well in cryptocurrency markets. Bitmain filed its application in September, reporting $2.51 billion in revenue in 2017, up from the $278 million a year ...

Apple Inc. has released security patches for its entire software range that address more than 100 vulnerabilities. The security patches, released alongside a software update that added support for some of Apple’s new services, addressed 51 flaws in iOS, 38 in macOS Mojave, 36 in tvOS, 20 in iCloud for Windows, 20 in Safari, 18 ...

Israeli startup Innoviz Technologies Inc. said today it has raised $132 million in new funding to support the commercialization of its LiDAR solutions and address growing demand for autonomous vehicles technologies. Investors in the Series C round included China Merchants Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, New Alliance Capital, Harel Insurance Investments and Phoenix Insurance. Founded in 2016, Innoviz develops ...

As rumored over the weekend, Uber Technologies Inc. early today announced that it has acquired Middle Eastern ride-hailing startup Careem Networks FZ. The acquisition came in at $3.1 billion, consisting of $1.7 billion in convertible notes and $1.4 billion in cash. According to Reuters, the notes are convertible into Uber shares at a price equal to $55 apiece, a 13 ...

A new survey from Keysight Technologies Inc. has found that companies have low visibility into their public cloud environments and the tools and data supplied by cloud providers are insufficient. The State of Cloud Monitoring survey of 388 information technology personnel, done in conjunction with Dimensional Research and Ixia, highlighted the security and monitoring challenges ...