Facebook Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has spoken publicly for the first time about the scandal surrounding a report that the social networking site’s Trending Topics list was being manipulated with a liberal bias. Zuckerberg naturally took to Facebook itself to make the statement, writing that he believed that Facebook “stands for giving ...

In an unexpected move, tech giant Apple, Inc. has invested $1 billion in Chinese ridesharing service and Uber, Inc. rival Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi). Apple said they had made the investment in part to better understand how business works in China. “We are making the investment for a number of strategic reasons, including a ...

Mobile-enabled enterprise network security startup Cyber adAPT, Inc. has closed a $15 million Series A round with an additional $5 million from Black River Investments LLC. Previous investors in the round include Alvin Fund, Fundamental Capital, Granite Point Capital, and Griffin Fund II. Founded in 2014, Cyber adAPT offers a security platform that monitors 100 ...

Human phishing defense solutions startup PhishMe, Inc. has today announced the release of Simulator Small Business Edition (SBE), a scaled version of its Simulator solution that conditions employee security behavior to identify and deflect phishing attacks through proven, immersive education processes. Unlike many security firms, PhishMe offers an education service that aims to head of ...

Virtual reality uptake has hit a new milestone with the Facebook, Inc.-owned Oculus announcing Wednesday that the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR had 1 million active users in the month of April. The number doesn’t indicate how many of the virtual reality headsets, which require a high-end Samsung smartphone to use, have been sold, but it ...

Apple, Inc. has denied a report that it is planning to stop selling music via its iTunes store at some point in the coming four years. The claim came via sources quoted by Digital Music News, reporting that Apple was considering a number of options for the service, including an “aggressive, two-year termination timetable” for the ...

Facebook-owned photo sharing app Instagram has had a makeover that includes a new logo and changes to the design of the app itself. The changes include the once iconic Instagram brown camera logo being abandoned in favor of a colorful, fresher design that includes hues of purple, pink, red, orange and yellow,  paying homage to the ...

Google, Inc.’s planned competitor to Amazon.com, Inc.’s Alexa smart home assistant may be teased at next week’s Google I/O conference, according to a report Wednesday. Recode claims the new device has an internal project name of “Chirp” and will resemble Google’s OnHub wireless router. News that Google was working on an Alexa competitor first emerged ...

IBM Security has announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based spinoff from its Watson cognitive technology platform that will be trained in the language of security. The new service will begin with one year of research in partnership with eight universities in the United States to train Watson on the finer points of security research findings, ...

The United States Senate Commerce Committee has issued a please explain demand to Facebook, Inc. after it was alleged that the company censored conservative news in its trending news list. A letter from the Chairman of the committee, Senator John Thune, asked Facebook to detail the steps it was taking to investigate the allegation, and ...