The price of bitcoin has continued to rise over the last week and some analysts are now suggesting that the cryptocurrency is entering a strong bull run. Bitcoin was trading at $8,730,11 as of 9:30 p.m. EDT, down over the last 24 hours as some investors took profits but still well up on prices below ...

Indonesia e-commerce giant PT Tokopedia has been hacked with the stolen data being offered for sale on the dark web. Discovered and publicized over the weekend by data breach monitoring firm Under the Breach, the hack is believed to have taken place in March. Some 91 million customer records are being offered for sale with the data stolen including full name, username, ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is set to require drivers and riders to wear a facemask and is designing technology to detect that drivers are doing so. The new policy will be rolled out in the U.S. and certain other countries, according to a report today byCNN Business. The move comes as Uber restarts its ride-hailing business in territories ...

A new form of Android mobile malware has been spotted in the wild that steals user data from financial applications. Dubbed “EventBot” by security researchers at Cybereason Inc. who wrote about it today, the new malware first emerged in March and is described as a mobile banking Trojan and infostealer. The malware abuses Android’s accessibility to ...

COVID-19 has hit smartphone sales hard, causing the largest-ever recorded drop in shipments in the first quarter of 2020. According to a report released by International Data Corp., smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% in the first quarter from the same quarter of 2019. Nearly 276 million smartphones were sold in the quarter. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. continues to ...

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said today it has raised $515 million for a second fund to invest in blockchain and cryptocurrency. The venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andreessen (pictured) and Ben Horowitz in 2009, has been a prolific and highly successful VC firm since it was established in 2009. Andreessen Horowitz’s investments include ...

Education technology company Chegg Inc. has been hacked for the third time since 2018 with employee data stolen. The latest hack involved the theft of some 700 employee records and included names and Social Security numbers, according to a report in TechCrunch. How the hack took place was not shared, but Chegg said it had hired a forensic ...

A new poll has found that more than half of Americans are either unwilling or unable to use COVID-19 illness tracing applications as researchers warn that the apps present a security risk. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released today found that of the 82% of Americans who have smartphones, willingness to use contact tracking apps ...

Augmented reality startup Mojo Vision Inc. revealed today that it has raised $51 million in new funding to develop its smart contact lens. The Series B-1 round was led by New Enterprise Associates and included Gradient Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Struck Capital, Dolby Family Ventures, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Fusion Fund, Intellectus Partners, KDDI ...

Social video app TikTok has continues to go from strength to strength, as an estimate was released today that its app has been downloaded 2 billion times. The number comes today from analytics firm Sensor Tower Inc. and includes downloads from both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Underlying just how quickly TikTok continues to ...