As U.S. consumers prepare for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping bonanzas, threat management firm RiskIQ is warning that one in 25 Black Friday-themed mobile apps is fake.

Read more at Hackers Target Holiday Shoppers with Malicious Black Friday Apps

Rackspace has completed its acquisition of Datapipe, the largest in its history, according to a Thursday announcement.

Read more at Rackspace Completes Datapipe Acquisition, Announces Exec Appointments

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission next month is planning a vote to kill Obama-era rules demanding fair treatment of web traffic.

Read more at End of Net Neutrality Rules Said to Be Near as FCC Plans to Vote

The WHIR is heading to Texas tomorrow for the last networking event of 2017! Join us on Thursday evening in Dallas from 6 – 9 p.m. at the House of Blues.

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Freedom House released the annual report with contributions from the Internet Society (ISOC) on Tuesday.

Read more at Internet Freedom Under Global Attack: Report

With demand for cybersecurity expertise exploding, but qualified people in short supply, war-gaming competitions have become key recruiting grounds for companies and government security agencies.

Read more at Companies Turn to War Games to Spot Scarce Cybersecurity Talent

Neumob provides app developers with a mobile SDK to speed up load times and in-app performance.

Read more at Cloudflare Acquires Neumob to Boost Mobile App Performance

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to sell some of its Chinese cloud assets to its local partner.

Read more at Amazon Agrees to Sell Some Cloud Assets to Chinese Partner

Project Loon balloons were able to connect with working network resources on the ground to extend LTE coverage

Read more at Alphabet's Project Loon Balloons Restore Some Internet Access in Puerto Rico

Colocation space pre-configured with cloud connectivity meant to ease enterprise cloud migration

Read more at QTS and Amazon Package Hybrid Cloud as a Colo Service

Tim Berners-Lee thinks the web has become as complex and intricate as a human brain.

Read more at The Father of the Web Confronts His Creation

International Business Machines Corp. is increasing the pressure on Alphabet Inc.’s Google in the battle to commercialize quantum computing technology.

Read more at IBM Ups Pressure on Rivals With Quantum Computer Prototype

Bulks up capacity in Denver and New Jersey; gets its first international footprint in Germany

Read more at Green House Data Acquires Cloud Provider Ajubeo

To protect itself and EU-based clients, Big Blue modifies a play for Microsoft’s playbook.

Read more at IBM Cloud Hands German Users Control of Their Data

Qualcomm Inc., trying to break Intel Corp.’s lucrative stranglehold on server chips, said it began selling a new processor that will outperform its rivals and has support from some of the industry’s biggest buyers of the technology.

Read more at Qualcomm Begins Selling Server Chip It Says Beats Intel's

The company added 188,000 net premium subscriptions, a 33 percent year-over-year increase to 3.1 million customers, according to the Wednesday announcement.

Read more at Wix Beats Earnings Guidance on Jump in Premium Subscriptions

In the race to go digital, businesses judge India’s Silicon Valley — Bangalore — the best host among 45 cities worldwide.

Read more at Bangalore Beats San Francisco in Confidence to Go Digital

Several internet service providers suffered an outage for longer than an hour on Monday due to a configuration error by Tier 1 network provider Level 3.

Read more at Level 3 Error Behind Widespread U.S. Internet Outage

More rules may not be the best answer to protecting the financial system against cyber attacks, a Federal Reserve official said.

Read more at Regulation Can't Solve Cybersecurity Problems, Fed Official Says

At least 195 websites belonging to U.S. President Donald Trump, his family, or businesses he is involved with were victims of DNS hijacking in 2013.

Read more at Russians Hijacked Trump Organization Websites in 2013: Reports