The seemingly endless assault against the most popular programming hub has finally come to a close. After several days of fighting off constant DDoS attacks from what appears to have been the Chinese government, GitHub has announced that the attacks have ceased. This comes shortly before President O
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) hasn’t bought into Samsung’s claims that its smart TVs aren’t listening in to people’s conversations and has decided to take the matter to the FTC. The privacy group has asked the commission to look into the South Korean compan
Which would be worse for Lenovo: the revelation that it knew that it was loading potentially dangerous adware onto its computers or that it truly had no idea how risky this kind of software is? This whole Superfish adware debacle has severely damaged the reputation of the world’s largest PC ma
Few business landscapes change as frequently as the technology market does and many of the corporate giants that controlled the market a few years are now struggling to change and remain relevant. One such company is Hewlett-Packard which announced today that it will be selling a new line of network
With a bunch of executive firings, missed deadlines, and slow user growth it’s safe to say that Twitter didn’t have a very good year last year. CEO Dick Costolo believes that this year will be much different, however, as the company is now in a position to begin increasing the revenue it
The first of Twitter’s biyearly transparency reports has been released and it shows us that the company has seen a massive surge in the number of government requests for user data. The number of requests has increased by more than 40% with governments from over 50 countries trying to get a hol
One of the biggest things holding Twitter back is that its not nearly as click-and-go as other services, you actually have to go through quite an annoying process just to set things up so that you can get some value from the service. Fortunately, the company is currently working on a way to solve th
The future of the automotive industries lies within the technology industry, and many automakers have been struggling to combine the two. Ford’s solution to this is to open a new innovation center in Palo Alto where the company will attempt to utilize the vast engineering capacity of Silicon V
Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, has come forward in a rare media appearance today to announce that his company has just carried out a campaign to purge the company of fraud. The campaign involved offering leniency to employees who came forth and admitted tha
Education technology is becoming an increasingly popular field and, as such, is starting to draw the eye of more investors. The latest company in this field to acquire cash from investors is Lynda.com, an online video tutorial service that has managed to raise more than $186 million in funding. Inve
Stripe, the digital payments company that helped drive Apple Pay’s early success, has raised $70 million in new funding, making it the 14th most valuable startup in the world. Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital led the round, which values Stripe at $3.5 billion. The company’s market cap is now about
It looks like Uber is taking another step to separate its service from any other car ride. The company will announce a partnership with Spotify on Monday to let passengers stream music of their choosing as they ride in style to their destination, according to two separate reports from The New York T