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Bitcoin fintech payment service provider Align Commerce raises $12.5m Series A
Bitcoin fintech payment service startup Align Commerce, Inc. has raised $12.5 million Series A in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that included Silicon Valley Bank, Recruit Strategic Partners and previous investors Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group and FS Venture Capital. Founded in 2014 Align Commerce offers a person to person payment ...
#OpISIS: Anonymous publishes jihadi details as ISIS calls them idiots
#OpISIS, the war by hacking collective Anonymous against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), has ramped up in the last 24 hours with the group taking the good fight to the forces of Islamic terrorism. The first pincer movement of the war took place with Anonymous publishing a list of 900 ISIS-related ...
SaaS edtech startup BridgeU raises $2.5m in a seed round
Education technology startup BridgeU Ltd. has raised seed funding of $2.5m in a round led by Octopus Investments that include Fresco Capital, Seedcamp, Jonnie Goodwin (Lepe Partners/Founders Forum) and Deborah Quazzo (GSV Capital). Founded in 2013 BridgeU offers an adaptive university preparation and careers guidance platform for students and secondary schools for use both its ...
Google flogs a dead horse with new design for little used Google+
Google has unveiled a new design for Google+ that sees the little used and regularly maligned social network shift its emphasis to “Collections and Communities.” The move, described by Google as making it much easier for users to post, search, connect and more, puts the relatively new features of communities and collections front and center ...
Bitcoin mining firm BTCS counts its days as SEC filing shows it’s nearly run out of money
Bitcoin mining outfit BTCS, Inc. is counting its days with the company disclosing in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it has nearly run out of money. The filing, required as BTCS is listed on the OTC (over the counter) exchange, saw the company state that it has had limited operating activities to ...
Twitter is secretly testing emoji based responses to tweets in place of the heart button
Twitter’s much-derided decision to switch from a star based favorite button to a heart shaped like button may be short lived with the messaging come microblogging provider reported to be testing multiple emoji based support options instead. Discovered by Twitter user @_Ninji via using a tweak called Flex that is able to force-enable features on ...
Let the battle begin: Anonymous declares war on ISIS over Paris terrorist attacks
Members of the hacking collective Anonymous have responded to the terrorist attacks in Paris by openly declaring war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The declaration of war came by a video posted to YouTube and includes a man wearing the synonymous Guy Fawkes mask reading a statement in French calling ...
Rdio gives up the ghost, files for bankruptcy and sells core assets to Pandora for $75m
Streaming music company Rdio, Inc. is no longer with the company Monday both filing for bankruptcy and announcing it had sold its core assets to Pandora, Inc. The deal will see Pandora pick up technology and intellectual property from the failed music streaming service for $75 million The Verge reported, with “many employees” from Rdio ...
Case involving Bitcoin considered by Judge Judy
Judith Sheindlin, better known to millions of fans as Judge Judy, had an interesting case last week when she was forced to try to understand what Bitcoin was. The episode, which went to air November 12, saw the good judge preside over a case lodged by a man named Dan Haahr who claimed to have ...
Group claims Bitcoin may have been used to fund Paris terrorist attacks
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) may have channeled funds used to set up Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris by using Bitcoin according to a group monitoring the organization. The report comes from the Ghost Security Group, an offshoot of Anonymous who describes themselves as a counterterrorism network that combats extremism ...