The ride-sharing company Uber confirmed Thursday that it had technology to shield company data when law enforcement raided its offices outside the U.S. Uber spokeswoman Melanie Ensign said this tool — no longer in use — could lock computers and smartphones and change passwords remotely from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Bloomberg reported Thursday […]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos donated $33 million in college scholarships for “dreamers” — childhood undocumented immigrants granted stay in the country under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. TheDream.Us, a nonprofit working toward college access for undocumented immigrants, said the donation from Bezos and his wife MacKenzie is the largest in the organization’s […]

Google deleted 60 kid-themed apps from its Google Play app store after security firm Check Point found that they contained malware that could display pornographic content, trick users into installing fake “security apps,” or induce them to sign up for premium SMS services. Using Google Play store estimates, Check Point found that the 60 games, […]

Rick Wilking | Reuters Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, shows the Drive Pegasus robotaxi AI computer at his keynote address at CES in Las Vegas, January 7, 2018. Nvidia and competitors AMD, Intel and Qualcomm all unveiled new chip technology at CES this week. But Nvidia’s was most focused on the emerging market for self-driving […]

Saks Fifth Avenue isn’t intimidated by the emergence of artificial intelligence and consumer preferences shifting to online retail, the luxury department store’s president told CNBC on Friday. “When you think about the online versus the offline experience, we don’t need AI in our stores. We have ‘I,'” said Marc Metrick, president of Saks. “We have […]

Venture capital firm DFJ is apologizing for an event hosted by founder Steve Jurvetson, further highlighting how the personal allegations against him ultimately forced him out of his job. Jurvetson hosted a party at his home that reportedly featured rampant sex and drug use following a DFJ event, according to a forthcoming book from Bloomberg […]

It’s fair to say that digitalization has shaken up industries across the globe as of late. The technological age brings both advantages and disadvantages, whether that is concerns over automation or the shift of consumer spending to different sectors — it’s a movement that’s keeping business leaders on their toes. Chief executive of cosmetics giant […]

The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday. The revelation suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy trying to […]

Facebook shares fell over 4 percent in pre-market trade Friday after it announced major changes to its News Feed. Shares fell as much as 4.1 percent ahead of the market open, after closing just below the flatline on Thursday. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the social media giant, said that the News Feed — one […]

Facebook announced big changes to its News Feed on Thursday, but that’s not worrying one analyst who upped his outlook on the stock, expecting nearly 20 percent upside from the current price. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the News Feed — one of the key areas where the social network shows ads — will begin to […]