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Cofounders of US bitcoin derivatives exchange LedgerX, CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou, placed on administrative leave by Ledger Holdings’ board of directors (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Cofounders of US bitcoin derivatives exchange LedgerX, CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou, placed on administrative leave by Ledger Holdings’ board of directors — LedgerX CEO and COO Paul and Juthica Chou are no longer running the company they founded. — A press release Monday announced [Read More...]

Global shipments of wearable devices totaled a record 84.5M units in 3Q’19, a YoY increase of 94.6%; hearables alone accounted for almost half the shipments (IDC)

IDC: Global shipments of wearable devices totaled a record 84.5M units in 3Q’19, a YoY increase of 94.6%; hearables alone accounted for almost half the shipments — Global shipments of wearable devices totaled 84.5 million units in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19), a year-over-year increase [Read More...]

HBUS, the strategic partner of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi in the US, will stop trading services on Dec. 15, about a year after launching (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Yogita Khatri / The Block: HBUS, the strategic partner of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi in the US, will stop trading services on Dec. 15, about a year after launching — Huobi Group’s partner exchange aimed at American customers, HBUS, is closing its operations after a little more than a year in [Read More...]

Google brings incognito mode for Google Maps, where users’ activity is not saved to their Google Account, to iOS (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google brings incognito mode for Google Maps, where users’ activity is not saved to their Google Account, to iOS — Soon, iOS users will be able to tap Google Maps for navigation and location searches without revealing their personal data. In a blog post, Google today announced that Incognito Mode [Read More...]

Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week — Goes live “this week;” promising October tease has us cautiously optimistic. — 3 with Starting this week [Read More...]

752,000+ applications for US birth certificate copies are exposed on AWS; neither Amazon nor the firm that collected the data took it down after being alerted (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: 752,000+ applications for US birth certificate copies are exposed on AWS; neither Amazon nor the firm that collected the data took it down after being alerted — An online company that allows users to obtain a copy of their birth and death certificates from U.S. state governments has exposed [Read More...]

GeekTek Accepts MSP of the Year Award at the Channel Innovation Awards 2019

New York, NY, December 09, 2019 –(PR.com)– GeekTek, Inc., a leading managed information technology and security firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California, has accepted the award of MSP of the Year at the Channel Innovation Awards 2019. GeekTek is an expert at expediting business growth through the strategic application of [Read More...]

Education software company Instructure says it is being acquired for $47.60 per share or ~$2B by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo (Jeffrey R. Young/EdSurge)

Jeffrey R. Young / EdSurge: Education software company Instructure says it is being acquired for $47.60 per share or ~$2B by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo — Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo [Read More...]

Migration Monster Launches an Outlook Profile Editor Tool

Surrey, United Kingdom, December 09, 2019 –(PR.com)– Migration Monster, the trading name of Cloud Clarity Ltd. has just released a new tool that automates the process of updating the Outlook profiles perfectly each time. This means you can change one or hundreds of outlook profiles all in one go. For example, if you are planning to do [Read More...]

Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead (Ed Bott/ZDNet)

Ed Bott / ZDNet: Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead — Back on January 27, 2010, a very Big Thinker declared the PC dead. A decade later, the PC is very much alive, although a time traveler from 2010 might not [Read More...]

A look at Arm China, which has become a key player in China’s chip industry and sources say has doubled staff since SoftBank sold control to a Chinese venture (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asian Review)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asian Review: A look at Arm China, which has become a key player in China’s chip industry and sources say has doubled staff since SoftBank sold control to a Chinese venture — Since SoftBank sold control, venture doubles staff and develops cryptographic IP — TAIPEI — Arm China [Read More...]

India-based B2B logistics network Shadowfax raises $60M Series D from Flipkart, others, bringing its total raised to $100M, sources say at a valuation of ~$250M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based B2B logistics network Shadowfax raises $60M Series D from Flipkart, others, bringing its total raised to $100M, sources say at a valuation of ~$250M — Walmart’s Flipkart has backed Indian startup Shadowfax in a new $60 million financing round as the retail giant works to strengthen its logistics [Read More...]

Report on the hack-for-hire market: attacks that phish 2FA to access email accounts cost $100-$400; such attacks can be prevented with physical security keys (Ariana Mirian/Communications of the ACM)

Ariana Mirian / Communications of the ACM: Report on the hack-for-hire market: attacks that phish 2FA to access email accounts cost $100-$400; such attacks can be prevented with physical security keys — Communications of the ACM, December 2019, Vol. 62 No. 12, Pages 32-37 … A single email address often underpins one’s entire online [Read More...]

Beijing orders all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign PC equipment and software within three years, allowing only Chinese-made tech (Australian Financial Review)

Australian Financial Review: Beijing orders all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign PC equipment and software within three years, allowing only Chinese-made tech — Yuan Yang and Nian Liu — Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment [Read More...]

Admins of local Facebook groups, which are often a town square, neighborhood watch, and an emergency info service rolled into one, on what it’s like to run them (Cameron Wilson/BuzzFeed)

Cameron Wilson / BuzzFeed: Admins of local Facebook groups, which are often a town square, neighborhood watch, and an emergency info service rolled into one, on what it’s like to run them — Untrained volunteers are running communities that are a town square, Neighbourhood Watch and emergency information service all rolled into [Read More...]

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