Artificial intelligence startup Diffbot, Inc. has raised $10 million Series A in a round led by Tencent Holdings Ltd. that included Felicis Ventures, Valor Capital, Amplify Ventures, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Lee and Georges Harik. Founded in 2010, Diffbot uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to build a structured database of objects and facts from across the ...

Infosec firm Trustwave Holdings has released its 2016 Security Pressures Report, and has found that information security professionals are feeling more under pressure as the security environment continues to become more difficult. The report, based on a survey of 1,414 in-house information security professionals, found that 63 percent of infosec professionals felt more under pressure ...

Four days after Chief Executive Officer Jack swore that Twitter, Inc. has no intention to implement an algorithmic timeline this week, Twitter has launched an algorithmic timeline. Dubbed by the company as an “improved timeline,” the new service is promoted as a way to “help people see Tweets that are important to them — from ...

The problems at microblogging-come-messaging service Twitter, Inc. have continued with the company reporting that it lost even more users in the fourth quarter of 2015. Twitter reported that its Monthly Average Users (MAU) remained stable in the quarter compared to the Q3, however once SMS-only customers are subtracted the MAU fell to 305 million, down ...

Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. has upped the ante in its pursuit of turning the service into a safe space with a new “Trust & Safety Council” that could have easily come out of a George Orwell book. In an announcement about the new council, Twitter’s Head of Global Policy Outreach Patricia Cartes justified ...

Software-as-a-Service (Saas) cyber security startup Digital Shadows Ltd. has raised $14 million Series B in a round led by Trinity Ventures that includes Storm Ventures, TenEleven Ventures, Passion Capital and Paladin Capital Group. Founded in 2011, Digital Shadows provides “cyber situational awareness,” an offering that assists organizations in protecting themselves against cyber attacks, loss of ...

Opera Software ASA, the makers of the Opera web browser, is about to be acquired after having received a NOK 10.5 billion ($1.2 billion) takeover offer from a consortium of Chinese companies. The offer, from investment funds Golden Brick Silk Road Fund Management, Yonglian Investment Co. Ltd., mobile game developer Kunlun, and security firm Qihoo ...

Before BitTorrent, Limewire and Napster piracy had a different form, and that form was the floppy disk; first actual floppy disks (8 inch then later 5 1/4 inch), then later the not so floppy 3 1/2 inch disk. Back in the 1980’s and well into the 1990’s, if you wanted to pirate software you obtained ...

Bitcoin lending startup Loanbase, Inc. is claiming to have been hacked, although fortunately for customers and the company alike the amount stolen was not huge. Loanbase advised customers of the hack via email and its Facebook page on Sunday, explaining they had first detected unauthorized access early in the morning of Saturday, February 6. The ...

Online fundraising site for startups AngelList LLC has published its annual year in review report, and despite a perceived slowdown in the venture capital space late in the year, 2015 turned out to be another big year in angel funding. If you’re not familiar with AngelList, the site caters to early stage startups by providing ...