Facebook announced today that an attack discovered earlier this week exposed information on nearly 50 million of the social network’s users The attackers exploited a feature that lets users see their Facebook page the way someone else would. They could then potentially use it to take over the accounts. Facebook said it does know who […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, according to court documents filed Thursday. Tesla was not named as a defendant in the complaint, but could be at any time. The SEC complaint alleges that Musk issued “false and misleading” statements and failed to properly notify regulators of […]
Qualcomm has taken yet more action against Apple, which it alleges stole trade secrets and offered them to Intel in a bid to improve Intel’s modems. This year’s iPhones rely solely on Intel modems, rather the a mix of modems from Intel and Qualcomm, in part because Apple and Qualcomm are locked in a legal […]
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have decided to leave Facebook, which purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Instagram started with just a handful of people and now employs more than one thousand all around the globe. Systrom and Krieger expressed gratitude for the opportunities afforded them over the eight years since Instagram’s […]
Slack has purchased Astro, the maker of an email app with a built-in smart assistant that helped sort through your messages and elevate important items to your attention. Slack is shutting down Astro’s email app. The app will stop functioning on October 10th. There’s no timeline on when any of these Astro’s email features will […]
Apple has successfully completed its acquisition of Shazam, the popular song identification app. The company confirmed it was buying Shazam and its development team for a reported $400 million last December. The acquisition was temporarily held up because of an investigation by the European Union, which scrutinized the deal over potential antitrust concerns. But regulators […]
MetroPCS is now a legacy brand. T-Mobile is rebranding its prepaid service to Metro by T-Mobile. Along with the new name, Metro by T-Mobile will come with new service plans. First, Metro’s existing $40 plan will double the amount of high-speed data allowed per month to 10 GB. Second, the new $50 plan allows for unlimited data […]
Newegg is a second home for many PC builders. Sadly being such a site makes it a a juice target for hackers on the net. Now per research from Volexity and RiskIQ shows that Newegg was attacked the organization known as Magecart. Magecart has been call out for conducting attacks on Ticketmaster and British Airways. […]
European Union antitrust authorities have begun a preliminary investigation into Amazon.com Inc.’s treatment of other merchants that sell products using its platform, opening a new regulatory front against an American tech giant. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Wednesday that investigators recently sent out questionnaires to merchants that sell through Amazon . The probe focuses […]
A new bipartisan bill in the Senate would see ZTE hit with heavy fines if it were to violate its settlement agreement with the U.S. ZTE reached an accord with the U.S. earlier this year over its skirting of prior settlement agreements. The company paid a hefty fine and agreed to put an additional $400 […]
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