Category archives for: News

Rumors Have T-Mobile Restarting Talks To Acquire Sprint

T-Mobile is in a new round of talks to acquire Sprint Corp per a Reuters report. If rrue, this is the third major effort to combine the third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers in the last four years.

Uber Buys Bike Rental Firm Jump

Uber members will soon be able torent electric bicycles through the app, now the ride-sharing firm has acquired US bike-hire firm Jump. Jump was weighing a $100 million offer from Uber or a new investment round. The competition was hot, but Uber ultimately won. Jump is a New York based firm which rents electric-powered “pedal […]

Event Dates and Details Revealed for BlizzCon 2018

BlizzCon, the celebration of all things Blizzard, kicks off this year on Nov. 2, with tickets going on sale on May 9 and May 12, the publisher of games like Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and StarCraft II announced on Monday. This year’s show, which takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center on Nov. 2 and […]

Broadcom Becomes A US Firm Again

Broadcom says its repatriation process is complete, and it has moved the company’s legal home from Singapore to Delaware. Broadcom announced its intent to move back to the U.S. last November. Broadcom has always maintained a huge presence in the U.S., as its San Jose facility and others around the country are home to some 8,300 […]

Sears and Delta Customers Warned of Data Breach and Information Exposure

Both Sears and Delta Air Lines are facing the exposure of some of their customers’ credit card information, following a data breach at a mutual contractor. The company, a customer services operation called [24]7.ai, suffered the breach between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12 last year. It said in a statement that the incident “potentially [affected] […]

BlackBerry Sues Snap Inc. Over Messaging Patents

BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against Snap Inc., alleging that the latter company’s social network is infringing in BlackBerry’s messaging patents. The patents in question were awarded to BlackBerry between 2012 and 2014 and cover a range of technologies concerning mobile messaging. Snap is the creator of the Snapchat app, a service popular for sharing […]

USA China Trade Fight Moving Into Tech Products

Technology products, such as cell phones, computers, TVs; have not been part ofof the growing U.S.-China trade fight, despite them being a significant portion of trade between the two nations. Now that has started to change,  the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Tuesday raised the stakes in a growing trade fight with […]

Security Researcher Claims Panera Bread Did Not Address Security Issue For Eight Months

Panera Bread has been ignoring a data breach that may affect millions of customers who placed online orders. The vendor’s website has been accidentally leaking full names, email addresses, phone nu mbers, home addresses and last four digits of credit card numbers, according to security researcher Dylan Houlihan. Houlihan says he repeatedly warned the company […]

Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Tim Cook’s Remarks On Facebook Privacy

Facebook’s chief executive has defended his firm and himself leadership following criticism from the CEO aof Apple. Mark Zuckerberg said it was “extremely glib” to suggest that because the public did not pay to use Facebook that it did not care about them. Last week, Apple’s Tim Cook said it was an “invasion of privacy” […]

Google Is Closing Down Goo.gl – Replacing With It Firebase Dynamic Links

URL shorteners have become commonplace due to the use of Twitter. Google offered its own URL shortener called goo.gl back in 2009, but the search giant just announced it is shutting down and being replaced. In a post on the Google Developers blog, Firebase software engineer Michael Hermanto explains that the way we find content […]

Sign Up For Our Newsletter

Sign up to receive breaking news
as well as receive other site updates

Enter your Email


Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz

Log in

Copyright © 2008 - 2025 · StreetCorner Media , LLC· All Rights Reserved ·