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Report: Airbnb looking for raise more money 2 weeks after it took $1b in debt financing
Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. is reported to be looking to raise even more money less than 2 weeks after it took $1 billion in debt financing. According to The New York Times quoting people familiar with the matter, the new round would be raised on a $30 billion valuation, meaning Airbnb has tripled its ...
Big Brother is DDoSing you: Botnet running on 25,000+ CCTV cameras discovered
What if you were to discover that the face of Big Brother in 2016, CCTV cameras, were under the control of hackers and were being used to bring down websites in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks? That Orwellian nightmare is actually now true, with a security firm discovering a network of over 25,000 CCTV ...
After being targeted successfully by hackers again, IRS shuts down e-File PIN service
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced the abolition of its PIN tool due to the platform being hacked. Under the now abolished electronic filing PIN tool (e-File PIN), people dealing with the IRS were able to use a PIN number to access services on IRS.gov or by toll-free phone call. The agency ...
Google updates Maps with Landsat 8 imagery for pretty, cloud-free satellite views
Google has updated the satellite imagery it uses in Google Maps to provide users with a more superior view of Earth from above. The new imagery comes from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, and combined with new processing techniques not only provides sharper images than before, but cloud-free imagery as well by stitching together millions of ...
Report: Lyft hires M&A specialist, seeks potential buyer or new investors
Ridesharing startup and Uber, Inc. competitor Lyft, Inc. may be looking to sell itself, with a report Monday claiming the company has hired a boutique investment bank known for helping tech companies find a buyer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Lyft has hired Qatalyst Partners LP. Further, Qatalyst Founder Frank Quattrone has been contacting companies ...
DHS wants the power to ask visitors to the U.S. for their social media account details
If you’re not American and are visiting the United States soon you may need to provide more than a visa in your passport, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking the power to allow U.S. Customs officials to ask foreign visitors to provide their Facebook and Twitter account names. Under the proposal, Customs and ...
Facebook tries to placate conservatives by introducing political bias training for staff
Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. is to begin training employees about political bias following accusations made in May that it was removing links to conservative content in its trending news section. Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg made the announcement last week at an event at the American Enterprise institute, noting that it was important ...
New Godless Android malware running rampant, over 850,000 devices affected
New malware that targets Google’s Android mobile operating system and hijacks a target phone has affected over 850,000 devices worldwide. Security firm Trend Micro said the malware, dubbed Godless (ANDROIDOS_GODLESS.HRX), targets a set of rooting exploits in its pockets and uses multiple exploits that can target virtually any Android device running Android 5.1 (Lollipop) or ...
YouTube to add live app streaming as Facebook announces masks, two people streaming
The battle for live streaming market supremacy has risen a notch with both the Google-owned YouTube, and Facebook, Inc. making new announcements Thursday in an effort to expand their user bases. YouTube was first, announcing at the VidCon Conference that it is extending its live streaming functionality to the mobile YouTube app. The company explained in a ...
Happy days are here again: Twilio stock price surges after going public
Cloud communications company Twilio, Inc. went public on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday in a sign that is being interpreted as being a return of happy days for tech initial public offerings (IPOs). Shares in Twilio, listed as TWLO, floated at $15 a share, up from an initial price guidance of $12-$14 a share, ...
