Bitcoin Blockchain financial platform startup Mirror (Vaurum Labs, Inc.) has raised $8.8 million Series A in a round led by Route 66 that included existing investors Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, RRE Ventures, and Tim Draper. As part of the deal, Route 66 partner Pascal Bouvier will join Mirror’s board of directors. Originally founded as a Bitcoin ...

The National Football League’s (NFL) first free, legally live streamed regular season game is coming, and much to delight of some, and the horror of others, it is being presented by Yahoo!, Inc. In a statement released Wednesday, Yahoo confirmed that it would stream NFL’s International Series game in London, between the Buffalo Bills and ...

Online pharmacy startup PillPack, Inc. has raised $50 million Series C in a round led by CRV that also included Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures. Founded in 2013, PillPack aims to take on pharmacy giants such as The Walgreen Co. by offering home-delivered customized prescription medication, along with vitamins and non-prescription ...

Pinterest, Inc. is heading into the e-commerce market with an announcement Tuesday that it was introducing the ability for users to buy items pinned in their social sharing site. The “buyable pins” complete with “buy it” button, which is shown in blue to make it stand out from Pinterest’s standard red features, allows users to ...

Google, Inc. backed augmented reality startup Magic Leap, Inc. is set to open up its platform for external developers. The company announced at the MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital conference Tuesday that it wants game developers, filmmakers, and other media creators to build augmented reality experiences using its software development kit (SDK.) Magic Leap added that the SDK ...

Do you like to post food pictures to Instagram? keen on artificial intelligence? worried about your waist line? then Google, Inc.’s new project might be for you. Demoed at Boston’s Rework Deep Learning Summit last week, Im2Calorie is reported to analyse food photographs on Instagram for their calorie count. According to Popular Science, the platform is more than ...

Apple’s forthcoming music streaming service may well take on Spotify AB in more ways than one, including curated channels complete with celebrity disk jockeys. According to a report Monday, the new service, as yet officially named, will be offered for $10 a month, but will not offer an unlimited, ad-supported version as Spotify does. There will ...

Machine data intelligence company Sumo Logic, Inc. has raised $80 million Series E in a round led by DFJ Growth that included new investor Institutional Venture Partners, along with existing investors Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Accel Partners. Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic offers secure and purpose-built cloud-based machine data analytics which allows customers ...

Microsoft Corp. is reported to have acquired German company 6Wunderkinder GmbH, the makers of the list making application Wunderlist. The Wall Street Journal quotes sources that put the acquisition figure as between $100 million and $200 million. 6Wunderkinder was founded in 2010 with the Wunderlist app being released in 2011, and as of today is their only ...

Zomato Media Ptv Ltd has closed iconic restaurant reviews site Urbanspoon following their acquisition of the site from IAC/InterActive Corp. in January. Urbanspoon was nine years old at the time of closure and was among the early wave of what was then called Web 2.0 startups that embraced user submitted content. The site had offered ...