Can touch this: Samsung in fingerprint Mastercard masterplan
Just a day after Chancellor Rishi Sunak raised the UK's contactless payment limit to £100, Samsung and Mastercard have announced…
04 Mar 2021
Brave announces privacy-led search amid Google cookie backlash
Google has said it won't build alternative tracking tools after it phases out third-party cookies in its Chrome browser just as privacy-focused rival Brave unveiled plans to launch its own…
04 Mar 2021
Auth0 to keep its identity in $6.5bn Okta acquisition – for now
Okta plans to acquire fellow identity verification and management firm Auth0 for $6.5bn in the latest sign that the market is starting to consolidate. Initially, Auth0 will maintain its own…
03 Mar 2021
Budget tech roundup: Fintechs salivate over £100 contactless transactions
Tech-sector stakeholders have given a cautious welcome to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s second Budget, with particular praise for its increase in the contactless payment limit to £100 – a move eagerly…
03 Mar 2021
HPE finds pot of gold at the cloud edge
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) reported mixed fiscal first-quarter results in which its Intelligent Edge products showed solid growth against a backdrop of declining revenue. The Houston-headquartered tech firm reported overall…
03 Mar 2021
Microsoft Teams gets end-to-end crypto, no matter what the Five Eyes say
Microsoft has joined the growing trend among communications vendors for end-to-end encryption (E2EE), announcing that its Teams collaboration tool will get the feature in the first half of 2021. The…
02 Mar 2021
Zoom caps off explosive year of growth with Q4 revenue up 369%
Video communications company Zoom has capped off an explosive year of growth with fourth-quarter revenue of $882.5m – a 369% year-on-year surge. For the quarter ended 31 January, Zoom reported…