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Zynga: 200 million player accounts cracked

By Chris Westermann on 2019-12-20

Do you play Words With Friends? Then your account could also be affected. COMPUTER BILD has all the information about the mega-hack! ...

OnePlus: Again customer data stolen

OnePlus: Again customer data stolen

By Chris Westermann on 2019-12-02

Cybercriminals have again tapped customer data from the smartphone manufacturer OnePlus. He sticks to the details but conspicuously covered. ...

IPVanish: The American VPN provider in the field test

IPVanish: The American VPN provider in the field test

By Chris Westermann on 2019-12-01

VPN services protect privacy and anonymity. But the selection is huge. Is the VPN worth it from America? TECH SCURRY has checked. ...

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Bytedance: This is the billion dollar company behind Tiktok

Bytedance: This is the billion dollar company behind Tiktok

2019-12-20

Tiktok was the social media hype of the year - despite reports of censorship and discrimination. We introduce you to the IT company behind the app. The short video platform Tiktok is currently one of the most successful apps among teenagers. It is used all over the world in 175 different languages. Last year alone, the app is said to have been downloaded 750 million times. Tiktok is also the most controversial app of the year: In the USA, people are afraid of China's influence on American teenagers - and wonder ... read more on t3n.de. ...

For $ 4.3 billion: Lastpass operator Logmein sells

For $ 4.3 billion: Lastpass operator Logmein sells

2019-12-18

$ 4.3 billion lets investors jump around Francisco Partners to grab Logmein. Among other things, the company operates the password manager Lastpass. For private internet users, Logmein is probably best known for its password manager Lastpass. However, the company has a lot more to offer companies and describes itself as one of the top 10 providers in the field of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Several million customers around the world should use Logmein's services, according to the self-description that the company ... read more on t3n.de. ...

Apple versus Williams: iPhone company sued ex-employee and Nuvia co-founder

Apple versus Williams: iPhone company sued ex-employee and Nuvia co-founder

2019-12-10

Apple has sued its ex-chip developer Gerard Williams III. The iPhone group throws Williams, who founded the chip startup Nuvia, breach of contract before. Williams does not take that. For a good nine years, Gerard Williams III was co-responsible at Apple as the lead developer for the chips in the iPhone and iPad. As a so-called Chief Architect Williams worked on about the design for the current A13 Bionic. Williams had left Apple in the spring and had come in November with a funding message for his startup Nuvia from the several-month sinking. ... read more on...

Wirecard: Financial Times raises new allegations against the DAX Group

Wirecard: Financial Times raises new allegations against the DAX Group

2019-12-10

The Financial Times has raised new charges against payment service provider Wirecard. This time it's about an alleged brightening of the 2017 balance sheet. Wirecard denies that. The dispute between the Financial Times and Wirecard over allegations of alleged irregularities in the balance goes into the next round. For the balance sheet 2017, according to the current allegations of the British business newspaper, the German payment service provider is said to have added funds parked on fiduciary accounts to the cash reserves. Trustee accounts are used to ... read more on t3n.de ...

Wirecard: Financial Times raises new accounting fraud allegations

Wirecard: Financial Times raises new accounting fraud allegations

2019-12-10

China wants to replace foreign computer and software in its own government

China wants to replace foreign computer and software in its own government

2019-12-09

In the course of their trade war, the US is pursuing a "decoupling" of China. Beijing also wants to reduce its dependence on US technology - and preferably exchange everything. Is that possible?

Court bans apps from Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany

Court bans apps from Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany

2019-12-08

The smartphone apps of Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook in their current form violate patents that Blackberry holds. The Munich district court has therefore decided that Facebook may no longer offer these apps in Germany. The Canadian software company Blackberry has prevailed with patent lawsuits in a total of nine cases against Facebook. Thus, Facebook may no longer offer the apps Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger in their current form in Germany. "The judgments actually prohibit the offering and delivery of the aforementioned applications in Germany for use in Germany ... read more on t3n.de ...

Are you still tracking or micromanaging?

Are you still tracking or micromanaging?

2019-12-06

Do you have to track everything that is possible? Does the data collection always mean that more is also "better"? No, thinks Claudia Wieschollek, and wonders when it's enough.

France: First eurozone country to test its own digital currency in 2020

France: First eurozone country to test its own digital currency in 2020

2019-12-05

France wants to be the first country in the Eurozone from 2020 to test a digital currency. The should be suitable for the transfer of very large amounts, as the head of the French central bank said. China is reportedly on the verge of starting its own official digital currency, now France also wants to push appropriate tests. From 2020, a suitable currency for the transfer of very large amounts will be tested, as announced by the Governor of the central bank Banque de France, François Villeroy de Galhau, on Wednesday. In addition, the French central bank also...

Google founder Brin and Page: Much money earned, vision failed

Google founder Brin and Page: Much money earned, vision failed

2019-12-04

Google should, according to the founders wishes, become much more than an ad-supported search engine. The most recent step shows that this has not been achieved so far. Business is running great for Alphabet: The Google mother continues to earn a lot of money and is currently the third most valued listed company after Apple and Microsoft. As an ad-supported search engine Google works great. But as the image of Google, the two founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page painted years ago, the company does not work.

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Zynga: 200 million player accounts cracked

OnePlus: Again customer data stolen

IPVanish: The American VPN provider in the field test