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Magic Leap Catches Flak Over Tricky Video

It turns out the awe-inspiringvideo Magic Leap unveiled last year is not a demo of its still-secretive mixed reality technology, but a bit of sleight of hand from special effects firm Weta Workshop, which is credited at the beginning and end of the clip ...

LinkedIn Begins New Chapter Under Microsoft’s Wing

Microsoft last week closed its US$26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn ...

Fitbit Pulls Pebble From Rock, Hard Place

Fitbit on Wednesday announced an acquisition deal with smartwatch maker Pebble ...

Bill Bolsters Legal Efforts of Wells Fargo Fraud Victims

United States lawmakers last week introduced legislation to stop Wells Fargo from enforcing arbitration agreements with victims of fraud it perpetrated against them ...

Tech Giants Team to Battle Terrorism Online

Facebook has teamed up with Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to fight the proliferation of terrorist content on the Web. The tech giants will create a shared industry database of hashes for violent terrorist imagery, terrorist recruitment videos, or images they have removed from their services ...

iPhone Envy May Have Felled Galaxy Note7

Samsung's desire to match the iPhone 7 Plus led it to implement an aggressive design and manufacturing approach that led to problems with its Galaxy Note7 -- including some instances of the smartphones bursting into flames -- and eventually its global recall, Instrumental reported last week ...

Twitter Buys Yes for Product VP Talent

Twitter last week purchased Yes and named the mobile app startup's CEO, Keith Coleman, as its new VP of product -- a challenging post. Coleman will be Twitter's third VP of product this year and the fifth since 2014 ...

Facebook Videos Explain AI in a Nutshell

Facebook last week released six videos to educate people about artificial intelligence ...

Gooligan Ransacks More Than 1M Android Accounts

More than 1 million Google accounts have been breached by Android malware dubbed "Gooligan," Check Point reported Wednesday ...

Zenefits Pays the Piper

The California Department of Insurance this week announced fines totaling US$7 million against startup Zenefits, a provider of cloud-based human resources services ...

Samsung Floats Possibility of Split

Samsung on Tuesday announced road map for a corporate restructuring that might include splitting itself into two firms ...

SF Muni Hack a Wake-Up Call for Public Systems

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority, or SF MTA, was hacked on Friday ...

Google Clamps Down on Sneaky Malicious Sites

Sites that repeatedly violate Google's safe browsing policies will be classified as repeat offenders, the company said last week ...

Russia May Kick Out LinkedIn

A LinkedIn block in Russia could be imminent, in light of last week's court ruling that the company broke a law requiring personal data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers within the country ...

First Hyperloop Could Blaze a Trail Between Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Hyperloop One, which aims to fulfill the vision of high-speed transportation promoted by Elon Musk, has signed a deal to develop a line between Dubai and UAE capital Abu Dhabi, Dubai reportedly announced this week ...

Election Day Cybershenanigans Highlight Need to Shore Up Security

Hackers last week launched DDoS attacks against both presidential candidates' campaign websites. The attacks were routed through HTTP Layer 7 of the OSI protocol ...

Salesforce Sets Up Lightning Community to Zap Competition

Salesforce last week launched the Lightning Partner Community, which lets business customers extend the features they provide their sales reps to channel partners ...

Google Cites Amazon Competition in Response to EU

Google last week filed a response in a 6-year-old antitrust battle with the European Union, which has charged that its search ads unfairly promoted its own shopping service and blocked rivals. ...

Facebook Share Price Falls Despite Blowout Quarter

Facebook on Wednesday reported a record Q3, beating analysts' expectations for the fourth straight quarter, but concerns among investors about increased expenditures and the company's future prospects drove down share prices ...

Broadcom Sews Up $5B Deal for Brocade

Chip manufacturer Broadcom on Wednesday announced that it would buy Brocade Communications, a major supplier of fiber channel storage area networking technology to data centers, for US$5.5 billion in cash and the assumption of Brocade's $400 million debt ...

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