Streaming music service provider Spotify AG may be about to back down on one of its founding principles, that all users of the service should have access to the same catalog of music, due to pressure by filthy rich, greedy musicians. The Wall Street Journal claims that Spotify has held private talks with music executives ...

Amazon.com, Inc. has announced a new offer for its Amazon Prime Video streaming service that allows customers to sign up to video on demand (VOD) services from a range of premium cable providers. The Streaming Partners Program sees Amazon Prime customers being able to obtain access to premium programming from 20 providers, the most prominent ...

Who is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto? That question has perplexed many since Bitcoin went live for the first time in 2009 but now we potentially have an answer to that question…perhaps. Wired is claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto is actually 44-year-old Australian academic and entrepreneur Craig Steve Wright on the basis of a number of blog ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has acquired cloud based video content management service provider Clearleap, Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2007, Clearleap offers a platform that provides customers with multi-screen video processing and video asset management, along with an open API framework for building video into applications. The company’s streaming support services promise ...

Bitcoin startup BitX has raised an undisclosed new round of funding from South East Asia investment fund Venturra Capital. “It’s a substantial amount and what we believe to be the first substantial investment from a Southeast Asian VC into a Bitcoin company,” BitX Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder Marcus Swanepoel told Tech In Asia. Founded in ...

Enterprise security firm Blue Coat Systems, Inc. may be returning to public equity markets in 2016 with a report that the company is considering an Initial Public Offering (IPO). According to Bloomberg Business, the company, acquired by Bain Capital for $2.4 billion in March, is taking pitches from investment banks for an IPO that could ...

As competition for hiring top talent continues to heat up as the great tech bubble continues to go on its merry way, will Microsoft continue its dominance in the enterprise desktop market as new hires demand access to Apple machines instead? The answer is yes, but its share will continue to decline in 2016, at least ...

Bitcoin to Amazon person-to-person (P2P) service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has raised $1 million in a seed round from Digital Currency Group. Founded in 2014, Purse.io offers a service that acquires unwanted Amazon gift cards and certificates and then sells them to users for Bitcoin; a credit is placed in the user’s account that is ...

A former U.S. Secret Service agent has been jailed for 71 months after being found guilty of stealing Bitcoin during the federal investigation into the now defunct Darknet marketplace Silk Road. Agent Shaun W. Bridges, who had previously spent time as a member of the President’s security detail, was arrested in April along with Drug ...

Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. has confirmed that it raised $1.5 billion in private equity funding earlier this year via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The Wall Street Journal first broke the news of the round back in late July after rumors of a new round emerged earlier that same month, but ...