Google Inc. has opened Waze Rider, its formerly experimental carpooling service, to the San Francisco Bay Area. The service, first rumored to be coming in August, works differently from alternatives offered by the likes of Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. Riders pay the Waze carpool driver 54 cents per mile, a number based on ...

Mexican bitcoin exchange Bitso SAPI de CV (Bitso) has raised $2.5 million Series A in a round led by Monex Group that included Variv Capital, Xochi Ventures, Digital Currency Group, FundersClub, Bitcoin Capital and Blockchain Tech Limited. Founded in 2014, Bitso is Mexico’s First Bitcoin Exchange and offers a platform for trading bitcoin for Mexican ...

A dubious cryptocurrency is under investigation by police in the United Kingdom following allegations that it is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. Called Onecoin, the cryptocurrency first appeared in around 2015 and is being promoted as the next bitcoin. The coin was promoted through a series of seminars and websites, which bizarrely offered to ...

Marking an end of an era, BlackBerry Ltd. has announced that it will stop developing and making its own phones. The once famous phone maker’s decision to abandon the phone business follows a strategic move by the company to shift its business model towards software and security development, a strategy that had already started to ...

Music streaming service Spotify AB is in advanced talks to acquire audio distribution platform provider Soundcloud Ltd., according to a report published Wednesday. The Financial Times notes that their sources are unclear on how much Spotify would pay for Soundcloud, and that the discussions could still collapse. Soundcloud raised $100 million Series E in June ...

Amazon.com Inc. may soon deliver goods not only to the outside of your home but inside of it as well, even when you’re not there. It may sound like magic, or alternatively breaking and entering. But the ability to deliver goods inside of your home in your absence will be through the use of smart ...

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it was retiring the Yammer Enterprise plan and integrating its features into Office 365 instead. The move comes some four years after Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion. Microsoft will retire the standalone Yammer Enterprise plan on January 1, 2017, for all volume licensing and direct channels. July 1, 2017, will ...

Virtual reality (VR) has seemingly passed Apple Inc. iPhone owners by, as the likes of Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd.’s Gear VR and Google Inc.’s Cardboard have dominated the mobile VR space. That drought is about to end. A Boulder, CO-based company you may never heard of, Occipital Inc., has just launched a developer kit that enables ...

Enterprise Software-as-a-Service startup Blackline Inc. is reported to be preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). According to Reuters, the float, which could happen as soon as October, would value the company at over $1 billion with BlackLine hiring investment bank Goldman Sachs Group to lead the offering. Founded in 2001, Blackline offers cloud-based software ...

Microsoft Corp. is diving deeper into the chip business in hopes of boosting its prospects in artificial intelligence. The software giant is continuing its development of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to improve performance and provide new capabilities in the data center that started back in 2011 under the name of Project Catapult. The company displayed its ...