App and Software TikTok Crosses 2 Billion Downloads May 1, 2020 As the world goes through global lockdown, housebound masses have resorted to social media and other forms of online entertainment. Hence, most…
Tech News update Notion hits $2 billion valuation in new raise Apr 2, 2020 Notion, a startup that operates a workplace productivity platform, has raised $50 million from Index Ventures and other investors at a $2 billion…
Tech News update On-demand shuttle startup Via hits $2.25 billion valuation on latest funding Apr 1, 2020 On-demand shuttle startup Via has hit a $2.25 billion valuation following a Series E funding round led by Exor, the Agnelli family holding company…
Tech News update Pentagon rethinks parts of $10 billion JEDI cloud contract awarded to Microsoft Mar 13, 2020 The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking court permission to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a $10 billion cloud…
Cyber Security Let’s Encrypt Issued A Billion Free SSL Certificates in the Last 4 Years Feb 29, 2020 Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate signing authority (CA) from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), has said…
Cyber Security New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices Feb 27, 2020 Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom…
Cyber Security 33.4 Billion Records Exposed In Breaches Due To Cloud Misconfigurations? Feb 22, 2020 With the rise in the number of records ‘exposed’ by cloud misconfigurations year after year from 2018 to 2019 by 80%, there is an evident ascent in…
App and Software WhatsApp defends encryption as it tops 2 billion users Feb 13, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO: The Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said Wednesday it now has more than two billion users around the world as it reaffirmed…
Computing Windows 10 is Now Installed on 1 Billion Devices Feb 2, 2020 When Microsoft first launched Windows 10 in 2015, it had an ambitious goal of reaching 1 billion users in 2 years. Although it proved to be more…
Cyber Security Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints Jan 29, 2020 New York facial recognition startup Clearview AI – which has amassed a huge database of more than three billion images scraped from employment sites,…