Real-time Bitcoin Blockchain analytics startup Coinalytics, Inc. has raised $1.1 million in a seed round from The Hive. Founded in 2014, Coinalytics offers a number of services relating to the real-time tracking of the Bitcoin Blockchain to allow companies to undertake risk assessments, among other related security and compliance tracking. The company’s main Blockstem API ...

Public transit app maker HopStop, Inc. is to cease offering its services some two years after being acquired by Apple. The app maker, rumored to have been acquired for the price of $1 billion in July 2013, provides transit and mapping services for 140 cities worldwide including New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, London, ...

The shine and gloss around the promise of apps in the new version the Apple TV has diminished somewhat over the weekend with news that the new operating system for the device doesn’t support Webview. Webview, if you’re not familiar with the term, is the ability to render content from web pages in an application ...

Bitcoin Blockchain powered remittance app maker Abra, Inc. has raised $12 million Series A in a round that included Arbor Ventures, RRE Ventures, and First Round Capital. Founded in 2014, Abra wants to “take cash mobile” with what they claim is a world’s first digital cash, peer to peer money transfer network. The Abra system ...

Let the battle begin. Google has re-entered the war for mobile payment services with the rollout of their new Android Pay service in the United States Thursday. First announced at the Google I/O conference back in May, the new payment service allows users with Android phones with Near Field Communications (NFC) support to pay using ...

Salesforce.com, Inc. has a “new home” for apps with the launch Thursday of the new Salesforce App Cloud. An offshoot of the company’s Salesforce 1 platform, the App Cloud has been designed specifically for enterprise and includes several components including Heroku Enterprise, Force.com functionality and the newish Lightning Experience platform. The App Cloud delivers one ...

Fraud protection startup Feedzai, Inc. has announced a new partnership with online identity verification firm Socure, Inc. that will see the two offer a joint fraud protection solution for financial institutions. The new product is described as a “plug-and-play” solution that combines online and social data-based authentication with fraud risk scoring, and sees Feedzai incorporating ...

Notorious Bitcoin extortion group DD4BC is aiming higher with its attacks in 2015, with the group said to be now targeting major corporations and financial institutions. The group, who uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as part of their extortion attempts, was found to have targeted 114 customers of cloud and content delivery network ...

Fintech Bitcoin Blockchain startup Chain, Inc. has raised $30 million Series B in a round that included financial heavyweights Visa, Nasdaq, Citi Ventures and Capital One, along with Fiserv, Orange, RRE Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angel and individual investors including former Bank of America Chief Executive Officer David Coulter, X Prize Foundation Chief ...

Despite a seemingly positive lineup of new products at its launch event in San Francisco Wednesday, investors in Apple haven’t given the company tick of approval with AAPL shares declining in price during trading mid-afternoon on the NASDAQ. Shares in the company were trading at $110.27 as of 3:41pm EDT, down $2.04 a share, or ...