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The popular messaging platform's share offer will confirm its co-founders as billionaires, six years after it started life. Co-founders Evan Spiegel, 26, and Bobby Murphy, 28, will be confirmed as billionaires as a result of the offer which will see their holdings in the company reduced from 22% to 14% each. They were reported to have rejected a $3bn takeover attempt by Facebook in 2013. Snap's latest valuation figure falls short of previous expectations that it would put it as high as $25bn. The company disclosed on Thursday that it was preparing to sell shares for between $14 and $16. That would make the entire company worth between $19bn and $22bn. It hopes to raise an estimated $2.3bn from the share sale, to be used to help fund its expansion. The hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) would be the largest since China's Alibaba went public in 2014 valued at $171bn. http://news.sky.com/story/snapchat-owner-valued-at-up-to-22bn-in-wall-street-s

Keeping up with Facebook's latest news can be tough. But don't panic, we've listed all the important stuff you'll need to know about Facebook's biggest and most recent announcements. http://www.techworld.com/picture-gallery/apps/facebook-big-announcements-3605650/

IBM this week announced Watson for Cyber Security, a powerful new ally for organizations that want to protect their data from Net marauders. The new offering bolsters the ability of information security pros to analyze the flood of information from the roughly 200,000 events that pour into their Security Operations Centers, or SOCs, every day. As much as 80 percent of it is unstructured data. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Watson-Joins-Cybersecurity-Warriors-Ranks-84308.html

You can  enable/disable USB port of PC / Laptop  in BIOS setting. This will prevent and restrict computer users from accessing any external storage devices (flash drive, memory cards, pen drives, portable hard disks) and external action devices like keyboard, mouse, scanners, printers, web cams and such, through the USB port. The advantage of this is, you restrict users from copying and transferring sensitive data to and from the computer. This is mostly a necessity in: offices to protect intellectual property and cybercafe / public browsing centers to prevent users from knowingly or unknowingly infecting the system with viruses. Now what if you’d want to block only the storage devices and not keyboards, mouse and other media devices from accessing the system ? This is not possible with the BIOS setup changes, however there is a work around for this, which can be achieved by hacking the registry: Here’s how you can disable USB storage device drive access in windows : 1  Clic

The handset homage will be launched at the Mobile World Congress and will cost around £50, reports say. It was one of Nokia's most successful phones, selling around 126 million handsets worldwide when it was launched 17 years ago. And now it looks like HMD Global, owner of the Nokia brand, are bringing back the Nokia 3310 mobile phone handset. Known for its indestructible nature and long battery life, the affordable phone was a big hit with users, who have long regarded it as one of the most reliable handsets ever made. http://news.sky.com/story/dialling-back-time-nokia-3310-will-be-re-released-this-month-10768885

In a world stricken by worries over illicit surveillance, a new generation of secure mobile communication apps wants to ride to the rescue of the privacy conscious. This type of application has been a cottage industry for desktop computers for years, usually for secure email or instant messaging, but the arrival of mobile platforms has given them the sort of kick that is leading many to dream of reaching the mainstream.   These days, activity in the sector is now so fevered that several platforms have launched in the second half of 2015 alone, a striking uptick for a type of software that used to be seen as the preserve of the technical users with a paranoid bent or political dissidents. Once small scale in their ambitions, the mostly new companies making these apps sense a huge opportunity to grab business users anxious about the implications of living in the post-Snowden world.  http://www.techworld.com/security/best-secure-mobile-messaging-apps-3629914/

When building a startup or scaling up a small business, project management is key. Here we offer 16 great project management software tools. Even better, all are free. Read on for the 16 best free project management software programs.  http://www.techworld.com/picture-gallery/startups/10-best-free-project-management-software-programs-3625922/

Some early reviewers of the Samsung Chromebook Pro characterized it as a "MacBook killer," but others were more restrained in their enthusiasm. Jointly developed with Google and first demoed at CES 2017, the Chromebook Pro is slated for release next month. Samsung's Chromebooks basically are lightweight productivity tools that rely heavily on access to cloud-based resources. They have gained popularity in the enterprise for use with remote workers and in educational settings as entry-level computing tools. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Samsungs-Chromebook-Pro-Earns-Respect-84300.html

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Munich-City-Government-to-Dump-Linux-Desktop-84307.html Munich city officials turned lots of heads 10 years ago, when they voted to swap out Microsoft Windows with LiMux -- a custom desktop version of the Linux operating system, based on Ubuntu Linux. The current municipal government wants to dump LiMux and replace its 15,000 computers with Windows 10. The city's general council this week voted to investigate how much time and money it will take to build a Windows 10 client for use by the city's employees. The city spent millions of euros over the last decade on the Windows replacement project. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Munich-City-Government-to-Dump-Linux-Desktop-84307.html

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Apples-Cook-Blasts-Mind-Killing-Fake-News-84304.html Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for a campaign against fake news. Its purveyors -- largely interested only in getting the most clicks -- are defeating the people who are trying to tell the most truth, he told the UK's  Daily Telegraph  in an exclusive interview last week. Fake news is "killing people's minds in a way," Cook said. The worldwide epidemic of fake news requires a crackdown by both government and tech, he said, but care must be taken not to step on the freedoms of speech and the press. Cook suggested the impact of fake news could be curbed by building public awareness with a massive public service campaign.

With big tech giants like Amazon, UPS and NASA all investing in drone fleets and with drone sales set to soar even more this year, Techworld looks at how businesses around the world are using the technology to improve customer service, maintenance and even capture the news. http://www.techworld.com/picture-gallery/personal-tech/best-uses-of-drones-in-business-3605145-3605145/

http://www.techworld.com/tutorial/apps/how-create-amazon-alexa-skill-3654733/ Alexa   is a 'smart' personal assistant made available to the public by the Amazon Echo in 2015 offering voice-driven applications that can be enabled to provide a whole host of information and run a range of tasks. Amazon offers plenty of skills (voice-enabled apps) ranging from news, travel planners and smart home skills to bedtime stories for children, fun facts and games. Through the Echo, Alexa can perform various tasks such as play music, look up the weather, turn your heating up or down and even (if configured correctly) make you a cup of tea in the morning...well boil the kettle anyway.