Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found. Russian authorities are asking Western tech companies to allow them […]

Qualcomm is hoping that the entry-level smartphone market in China will help drive growth, according to statements made by Qualcomm president Derek Aberle on Friday. Qualcomm may be seeking new areas to sell its chips as it continues to fight several legal battles with Apple, which has stopped paying Qualcomm royalties. Apple believes Qualcomm is […]

BlackBerry reported an unexpected profit for its fiscal first quarter on Friday, but it wasn’t enough to rally Wall Street behind the software and services company. Shares of BlackBerry’s fell 6 percent in premarket trading following its earnings report, which revealed sales that came in below analysts’ expectations. BlackBerry reported revenue of $244 million for […]

First there was bitcoin, now there’s ethereum. The cryptocurrency, along with its associated blockchain software platform, has gained popularity recently and is considered an alternative to bitcoin. Ethereum is up 4,100 percent year to date, CNBC reports, and made headlines this week when its price plummeted from $319 to just 10 cents in seconds. (It […]

Ethereum investors shouldn’t worry too much about the digital currency’s flash crash from $319 to just 10 cents in a matter of seconds, blockchain investor William Mougayar said Friday. “I wouldn’t call it a crash,” Mougayar said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” a day after the plunge. “It was more a flash or a blip or […]

India’s largest digital payments company Paytm is looking to expand its footprint to include lending services and credit cards for customers, in a move that threatens to shake up the country’s traditional banking sector further. In an interview with CNBC, Chief Financial Officer Madhur Deora said the launch of its pilot lending program would come […]

Kentucky-based software company Advanced Solutions has developed what it calls the world’s first 3D human tissue printer that operates on a six axis robot. Called the BioAssemblyBot, the machine is the second generation of 3D printers focused on producing biomedical materials intended to revolutionizing healthcare. The goal is to 3D print human organs, Advanced Solutions […]

Recent elections have shown that likes and shares on social media giant Facebook are translating into votes for political parties at an increasing rate. But while Facebook is “one of the, if not the most important channel” of the media, there are “massive question marks” about the transparency of political parties and campaign groups’ usage […]

Whether the end is nigh on the spectacular run-up in large cap U.S. techs, or they’re back in market-darling territory, calls for caution persist. In fact, with tech easily the best performing sector so far this year, there’s no shortage of warnings on valuations. “The critics are right and they’re wrong,” closely-followed RBC Technology Research […]

With its pair of launches on Friday and Sunday, SpaceX hopes to demonstrate its rocket services can be a cost-effective, rapid-turnaround means of reaching the final frontier. No private company has successfully launched two rockets in a 48-hour time frame since United Launch Alliance did so in March 2008 — and SpaceX aims to both […]