TECH

Ransomware payments dropped in 2024 as victims refused to pay hackers
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 5, 2025
Ransomware payments fell by more than one-third in 2024 as an increasing number of victims refused to negotiate with hackers. In a report published Wednesday,

Adobe exec Scott Belsky departs for indie movie studio A24
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 1, 2025
Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky announced this week that he will be joining A24, the independent movie studio behind “Civil War,” “Everything Everywhere All

Here are India’s biggest AI startups based on how much money they’ve raised
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 30, 2024
India is very far from the “uncanny valley” of San Francisco, but it has a massive trove of engineering talent, and some of those people

TikTok’s Instagram rival, Whee, has no traction
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 26, 2024
TikTok earlier this month launched a new social app called Whee, an Instagram-like service for taking photos to share with friends. Like Instagram, Whee also

Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 22, 2024
When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and

Meet Seen, a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 18, 2024
We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji

Arc now features a live calendar button to help you stay punctual for meetings
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 14, 2024
The Browser Company’s Arc, a web browser that aims to have a less cluttered user interface, launched a “Live Calendar” feature to ensure you never

Mandiant says hackers stole a ‘significant volume of data’ from Snowflake customers
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 10, 2024
Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a “significant volume of data” from hundreds of customers hosting their vast banks of data

Revel’s latest pivot: Ditching all-employee ride-hail in favor of gig worker model
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 6, 2024
New York-based Revel has made a lot of pivots since initially launching in 2018 as a dockless e-moped sharing service. The BlackRock-backed startup briefly stepped

Trump takes off on TikTok
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 2, 2024
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban. Trump’s TikTok account, which