vBulletin Solutions, Inc. has issued an urgent reset of the passwords for its over 300,000 accounts following a breach by hackers that exposed the IDs of hundreds of thousands of users. The hacker who claimed responsibility for the hack used a zero-day vulnerability to access the site, with mixed reports claiming that at least for ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. has once again defied market predictions hitting a new record high in the third quarter. Revenue at Facebook was up 41 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $4.5 billion with net profit rising to $896 million (31 cents a share), up 11 percent from the same ...

­­Online interior design service Havenly, Inc. has raised $7.5 million Series A in a round led by the Foundry Group that included participation from other private investors that were not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Havenly offers an online interior design service that matches users with designers to curate any room for a flat fee starting ...

The price of Bitcoin has surged to over $400 for the first time since November 2014, but what exactly is behind the surge? There are multiple possibilities, perhaps with all of them operating together, but the simple answer is that no one knows for sure exactly why after a year in the relative doldrums the ...

Fintech invoicing app maker Invoice2go, Inc. has raised $15 million Series C in a round led by Ribbit Capital that included existing investor Accel Partners. Founded in Australia in 2002 (but now with a main office in Redwood City, CA) Invoice2go offers a mobile app that assists small businesses to manage cash flow through easy-to-use ...

Intel’s venture capital arm Intel Capital has announced it has invested $22 million into 10 startups as part of its push to invest more than $500 million in technology companies this year. The list of companies, announced at the Intel Capital Global Summit Tuesday, cover a range of startups operating in spaces including new communications, ...

Twitter, Inc. announced another desperate ploy to make their service more appealing Tuesday by replacing the ability to favorite a tweet with an option to like a tweet (“heart it”) instead. The company justified the decision in a blog post, with Product Manager Akarshan Kumar claiming that the move was to make Twitter “easier and ...

Lawyer-matching startup Lexoo Ltd. has raised $1.3 million in a round led by Forward Partners and individual investors Jonathan McKay (chairman of Just Giving), Duncan Jennings (founder of Vouchercodes), Tim Jackson (Lean Investments), Robin Grant (founder of We Are Social) and the London Co-Investment Fund. Founded in 2014, Lexoo is attempting to disrupt the legal ...

Singapore-based fintech app maker Call Levels Pte. Ltd. has raised pre-series A of $500,000 in a round led by 500 Startups that included financial market veterans Timothy Teo (ex-GIC and JP Morgan), Gracelyn Ho (ex-Morgan Stanley) and Koh Boon Hwee. Founded in 2014, Call Levels offers a real-time financial monitoring and alert service designed to ...

Google has gone public to deny a report from last week that it is currently working on merging its ChromeOS operating system into Android. The original report claimed that ChromeOS will be folded into Android as the latter has become by far the more dominant operating system while ChromeOS has remained a bit player at ...