Editor - Technology News

Another day, another breach. Today, online travel agency Orbitz disclosed that hackers managed to get both credit card data and personal information (though no Social Security numbers and passwords) from users who made their travel purchases on the site between January 1, 2016 and December 22, 2017. In total, the company says, that’s about 880,000 […]

The post Hackers gain access to 880K credit cards from Orbitz customers appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

As of Tuesday at market close, Amazon overtook Google parent Alphabet, leaving only Apple bigger.
       
Read More At Article Source | Article Attribution
The post Amazon overtakes Google parent Alphabet, only Apple…

The controversy over Cambridge Analytica’s access to Facebook data sparks questions about how political campaigns use similar data.
       
Read More At Article Source | Article Attribution
The post Obama 2012 …

Salesforce today announced that it intends to buy MuleSoft in a deal valued at a whopping $6.5 billion. That’s not the selling price, but the amount the company has been valued at based on stocks, bonds and cash on hand. The exact price was not available yet, but the company did indicate it was paying 44.89 […]

The post Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5 billion appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Cancer remains the one counterpoint to the march of medical progress that has scored human history over the last 200 years. Last year 600,920 people in the U.S. died from cancer, and another 1.7 million received an initial diagnosis of the disease. Globally, one in six people die from cancer, according to the World Health Organization. […]

The post Tradewind Bioscience attacks the physiology of tumors to treat cancer appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

YouTube’s video ad creation service aimed at helping small business reach YouTube viewers is now available more broadly across the U.S. The company announced this morning that YouTube Director onsite, as the service is called, is now live in over 170 U.S. cities, up from only 9 previously – Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, […]

The post Get ready to start seeing more local ads on YouTube appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Andrew Nix, the CEO of the London-based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job. In an announcement posted to the company’s site, the board said the suspension was effective immediately. Nix’s […]

The post Cambridge Analytica CEO Andrew Nix has been suspended appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Salesforce announced an agreement on Tuesday to buy enterprise software company Mulesoft in a merger that would value Mulesoft at $6.5 billion.
       
Read More At Article Source | Article Attribution
The post Sales…

Here’s how it’s evolving
       
Read More At Article Source | Article Attribution
The post ‘Formal’ science is not sustainable appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the …

Facebook’s late Friday disclosure that a data analytics company with ties to the Trump campaign improperly obtained — and then failed to destroy — the private data of 50 million users is generating more unwanted attention from politicians, some of whom were already beating the drums of regulation in the company’s direction. On Saturday morning, […]

The post Facebook’s latest privacy debacle stirs up more regulatory interest from lawmakers appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.