The update mechanism of the popular Drupal content management system is insecure in several ways, allowing attackers to trick administrators into installing malicious updates. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
(Reuters) – Apple Inc bought Emotient Inc, an artificial intelligence startup that reads people’s emotions by analyzing facial expressions, the Wall Street Journal reported. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Uber has agreed to pay $20,000 and strengthen its privacy policies following an investigation read more >>> Source : BBC
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The alliance between automakers Renault and Nissan will launch more than 10 cars with self-driving technology over the next four years in the United States, Europe, China and Japan, the partnership’s leader said on Thursday. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Toward the end of last year, the number of searches for the word “refugee” increased five-fold. Those hoping to educate themselves about the millions of people fleeing Syria and its surrounding countries to seek asylum elsewhere likely found a befuddling mix of opinions and news clips. In November, over half of America’s governors announced that […]
Tech investors are readying themselves for ripple effects from China’s most recent market sell-off. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG is developing plans to produce a family of new battery-powered luxury vehicles, the automaker’s research chief said. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Researchers from the INRIA institute in France have devised several attacks which prove that the continued support for MD5 in cryptographic protocols is much more dangerous than previously believed. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
Apple recently named Periscope the top iPhone App of 2015. That should come as no surprise. Within months of Twitter’s release of the live streaming app, a wide range of major brands experimented with the platform. Nearly six months after Periscope’s launch, the app was downloaded over 10 million times. Just a few months ago, […]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Naspers, the largest listed company in Africa, said it was not worried about Netflix’s arrival in South Africa, adding it believed the market for video on demand was large enough to accommodate more players. read more >>> Source : Reuters
John Legere takes to YouTube — which complained about T-Mobile’s video service — to make a case for Binge On after the EFF categorized the service as nothing more than bandwidth throttling. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
U.S. President Barack Obama made an impassioned call to limit gun violence in front of an audience of gun control activists and survivors of gun violence on Tuesday, making special mention of so-called “smart technology” for gun safety. “We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world. But […]
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Business intelligence software provider Sisense said on Thursday it raised $50 million in an investment round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. read more >>> Source : Reuters
The Netherlands says it will not make tech firms share encrypted data with security agencies read more >>> Source : BBC
Privacy and security of IoT in the spotlight in £23m project. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Uber is softening the blow of China’s market turmoil by offering discounts to users, just hours after trading was suspended. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Microsoft reveals details about the usage data it is tracking via its new operating system, Windows 10. read more >>> Source : BBC
Have you considered working remotely? This may be a compromise your boss can live with read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
If you’re protecting important personal accounts with nothing more than a few security questions, it may be time for an upgrade. A study from Google recently compared the use of security questions to other account recovery methods like SMS (short text messages) and an alternative email address. It found that true or made-up responses to […]
Google releases a statement after one of its online tools translated “Russian Federation” to “Mordor”. read more >>> Source : BBC
BlackBerry showed off its latest technology at CES which demonstrated how cars can communicate with each other. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Micro-blogging site Twitter filed a lawsuit in an Ankara court on Thursday, seeking to annul a fine by the Turkish authorities for not removing content Turkey says is “terrorist propaganda”, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Internet media company Yahoo has faced years of falling sales – but can it turn its fortunes around? read more >>> Source : BBC
A human-carrying drone is one of the transport innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. read more >>> Source : BBC
The view from the CES show floors as thousands of new gadget vie for attention. read more >>> Source : BBC
Google is looking to hire more than 50 people in China as it looks to jump back in to the world’s second-largest economy. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom is facing growing pressure from investors and lawmakers to ensure proper treatment of workers at its American business T-Mobile US . read more >>> Source : Reuters
The chief executive of Sony says more than 100 titles are in development for its virtual reality headset the PlayStation VR. read more >>> Source : BBC
Following concerns that ISPs would not be able to afford to comply with data-retention obligations, the federal government is offering funds under a grants program. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Marc Cieslak puts the Giroptic 360 degree camera to the test on the streets of Las Vegas read more >>> Source : BBC
Uber has agreed to pay a penalty of US$20,000 in a settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman for delaying in reporting to drivers the data breach of their personal information in 2014. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
Australians spent AU$18.1 billion on online retailing in the 12 months to November 2015, with the highest growth seen in electronic games and toys. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
The chief executive of Netflix Reed Hastings says he intends to follow Apple’s lead to get permission to operate in China. read more >>> Source : BBC
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix has already crossed off the biggest item on its New Year’s list of resolutions. The Internet video service debuted in 130 countries Wednesday in a surprise move likely to reel in millions of new subscribers. CEO Reed Hastings revealed the scope of Netflix’s expansion at the end of a presentation […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc aims to at least triple sales of its next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) televisions this year, a senior company executive said. read more >>> Source : Reuters
A new 3D printer that is small enough to put on a desk makes highly detailed models out of paper, coloured inks and glue. read more >>> Source : BBC
Uber has agreed to pay a $20,000 penalty and overhaul privacy and security practices to settle the New York attorney general’s investigation into a security breach and the ride-share service’s so-called God View tracking program. The company will encrypt GPS tracking information, regularly assess its privacy and security practices, and restrict access to sensitive information […]
Yahoo investor Starboard Value has written a letter taking aim at the company’s executive team, saying that despite their efforts to turn the business around, they need to step down to let someone else have a go. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Swedish automaker once known as Saab has emerged as part of China’s push to make electric vehicles a mass-market alternative to petrol cars, after getting a $12 billion order for EVs. Chinese-owned National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) – the company that acquired Saab’s assets, though not its name – said it […]
As entrepreneurs want more concessions from the government, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reveal the ‘Startup India, Stand up India’ on January 16. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
As technology-savvy, data-driven marketers, our job is to get the right message in front of the right audience at the right time to drive the desired consumer behavior — more efficiently and effectively than traditional approaches. This isn’t easy – and it’s not for the faint of heart. Data-driven marketing requires a new mindset, organizational […]
Matt is the Managing Director of Matt Kozlov What does entrepreneurship mean to you, and what underlying characteristics do you see in successful entrepreneurs? Matt: An entrepreneur is someone who not only identifies a real problem in the world they can solve, but then also fully commits their professional life to that pursuit. An entrepreneurs’ […]
Two top federal regulators at CES on Wednesday urged tech companies to bolster efforts to protect consumer privacy. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The global Twitterati set their sights on Twitter on Wednesday, widely decrying a reported plan by the microblogging site to blow out its length limit to as much as 10,000 characters. read more >>> Source : Reuters
According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 2016 is the year of running. Zuckerberg shared his fitness goal — running 365 miles, or one mile for each day of the year — on Facebook (where else?). He also created a public Facebook group called “A Year of Running” to include other people who want to take […]