Apple and FBI want to resolve their feud over the decryption of the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter but the giant tech company turned FBI's request. John McAfee, inventor of the McAfee software, offers assistance to solve the case.
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Oracle Acquires Ravello Systems for $500 million
It was confirmed on Monday that Israeli company Ravello was acquired by Oracle for $500 million. Ravello joins Oracle's cloud business with high hopes to take on giant tech companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Samsung Reveals Australian Date and Price for Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
Samsung has revealed the price of Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in Australia as A$1,149 and A$1,249 respectively. Both phones will be available on March 11 and offers pre-sale order on February 26.
AT&T, Intel Team Up to Test Drone Technology for 4G Drone Connectivity
AT&T team up with Intel to test drone technology and adds 4G LTE on drones connectivity. The companies will showcase their work in Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress trade show.
HSBC Biometrics Prevent Hackers and Identity Theft
This summer HSBC will allow 15 million customers to use the biometric system where account owners can access their accounts online through their fingerprints or voice. This scheme would make hackers and identity thefts difficult to mimic the real owners.
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The England’s county of Cornwall is being reported to have substantial growing tech community as it ranks second for growth in the UK. The region is still striving to achieve better growth with the improvement of funding and workers’ skills.
Video analytic and collaboration company Vyopta announced on Thursday to receive Series A funding, AVX Partners lead the funding, which will be used to strengthen the company's product development.
NYSE-listed Broadridge Financial Solutions has invested in AMA Partners, BV (AMA). By taking minority stake in AMA Partners, Broadridge will expand its corporate governance solution in Europe.
BDC Capital, a subsidiary of Business Development Bank of Canada, has launched IT Venture Fund II with corpus of C$150 million. With an objective of bridging gap in the mid-stage funding, the new fund will support new generation of IT entrepreneurs in Canada.
Apple found support from Facebook and Twitter that it should not be forced to help FBI in unlocking the smartphone of one of the San Bernardino mass shooting assailants, Farook. Even if Apple unlocked phones in the past for solving criminal investigations, it is still the company' best interest to protect their privacy of their customers.
Google Translate has now 13 new additional languanges giving it a total of 103 that surpasses the 100 mark. Based on the Google's estimate, it envelops 99% of the online population which is about 120 million people around the globe.
The venture capital (VC) inflows into Chinese economy grew 25 percent in 2015. The US and China ranked at first and second slots respectively in mobilizing the venture capital funds. The VC investors are choosier and cautious in selecting the startups amid economy slowdown.
Yahoo announced another round of layoff after early February cutoff. Around 300 employees in California office will lose their jobs.
Apple Pay is targeting China as its largest market. The mobile payment system was released Thursday and was hoping to convince retailers to use the system since there are hundred million users of Apple. A lot of banks will support Apple Pay including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
