Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. has continued its ongoing push to keep users on the site with a new service that delivers inline music support. Called “Music Stories,” the new feature allows users to embed a 30 second preview of a shared song or album they wish to share from either Apple Music or Spotify ...

Application security firm Checkmarx, Inc. have released a new mobile security report that throws a common misconception about mobile security on its head. The State of Mobile Application Security 2014-2015 report, published in conjunction with Appsec Labs, tested hundreds of mobile applications of all types including banking, utilities, retail, gaming and even security oriented applications for ...

Photo sharing and live video streaming app maker 17 Media, LLC has raised $10 million Series A in a round that included Infinity Venture Partners and Prometheus Capital. Co-founded by Taiwanese rapper-turned-entrepreneur Jeff Huang and app designer Popo Chen, the 17 App offers an interesting combination of photo sharing (a la Instagram) and video streaming, ...

Thieves in Atlanta, Georgia may have made history this week by being the first to steal a Bitcoin ATM in the United States. The two hooded bandits, one armed with a handgun, entered the Village Smoke Shop on Juniper Street late in the evening Tuesday and immediately approached the Lamassu Bitcoin ATM with one of ...

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, ...