Google, Inc. has upped the ante in the photo storage space by launching Google Photos Thursday, complete with unlimited storage and some new, nifty features. The new service, which is a spin-off of the photo service from Google’s little used Google+ social network, offers a similar, easy to use interface that embraces a users’ photographs ...

Ellen Pao confirmed Reddit’s intent to turn the site into a safe space Wednesday while using the argument that they don’t really want to censor users, but want to make sure people can post freely without being “attacked.” Speaking at the <Code> conference to Kara Swisher, Pao talked about the now infamous stolen celebrity pictures published ...

Amid an orgy of IPO’s and acquisitions that is so 1999esque it’s scary, the latest rumor/ report takes us into incestuous territory with a claim that Comcast Corp. is looking to acquire Vox Media, Inc. According to Quartz, talks have occurred between the pair, but the sticking point so far has been the price of ...

Amazon.com, Inc.’s video game streaming service Twitch has considered the statement “won’t somebody please think of the children” and decided to ban users from streaming any game that has an Adults Only (AO) rating. The ban affects popular games regularly streaming on the service including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Manhunt 2. Twitch justified the ...

Clothing retailer Hot Topic, Inc. has acquired Geeknet, Inc., the company behind online retailer ThinkGeek for $122 million. ThinkGeek, for those not familiar with the store, is an online retailer that caters to, as the name may suggest, geeks. The company sells a range of products including clothing, electronic and scientific gadgets, unusual computer peripherals, office ...

Vox Media, Inc., has acquired Revere Digital, Inc., the parent company behind tech blog Re/Code founded by The Wall Street Journal veterans Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed but is reported to be an all-share deal, suggesting a figure on the lower side, possibly valuing the business at somewhere around ...

Pioneering tech website GigaOm may be set to rise from the dead come August with news today that the site had been acquired by Austin based startup Knowingly Corp, run by former Demand Media CIO Byron Reece. Knowingly said in a statement, appropriately published on GigaOm.com, that it had acquired a portion of the assets of GigaOm, including ...

Twitter, Inc. has finally announced that its popular live streaming app Periscope will be available on Android devices today. It’s not clear from reports exactly when today, or whether it will be released globally or just within the United States; at the time of writing the app was not available in the Google Play store ...

Cloud-based social games platform provider Weeby.co, Inc. has acquired Vietnamese social location-based app provider Tappy Pte. Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in August 2014, Tappy offers a hyperlocal social app that is said to transform any location into a virtual online community where users can discover interesting people and relevant content. The company says it ...

Online gold savings and payments provider BitGold, Inc. has acquired precious metals custody services group GoldMoney Network Ltd. for CAD$59.1 million ($42 million). Under the deal, BitGold will acquire the intellectual property and operating assets of GoldMoney in exchange for the issuance of 11,169,794 common shares in BitGold. Three GoldMoney directors will join the to ...