WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) - used by 2 billion people every day - have been brought down by a global outage that lasted over six hours and cost hundreds of millions of Dollars to the global economy. The downtime was not only registered on the different platform's websites but also across mobile applications. The first user reports of the downtime beg...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has made an equity investment in software startup Rubrik as the two combine products aimed at ransomware-hit users. The value of the cash injection has not been disclosed by either party. Founded in 2014, Rubrik has to date raised US$553 million from several investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, GoldenArc Capital, Irving Investors, Meros ...

Recent announcements from Google and Apple around tightening privacy have put personal data protection concerns back on the agenda. These major corporates have clearly seen which way the wind is blowing and are fighting a rear-guard action against new market entrants who offer a more open transaction for their services – such as money – rather than mining personal data to ...