Discount luxury holiday site Secret Escapes Ltd. has raised $60 million Series C in a round led by Google Ventures and Octopus Investments that also included existing investors Index Ventures and Atlas Venture. Founded in 2010, Secret Escapes offers members (it’s free to join) exclusive rates for luxury hand-picked hotels and vacations globally at a claimed ...

Selection bias: the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis such that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed. The art of polling is far from a new one, an established science with precedent and methodology that when applied properly ...

The Google, Inc. owned Nest smart connected thermostats are no longer available through the Appe, Inc. owned Apple stores, after the latter withdrew them from sale as the first devices become available that work with Apple’s HomeKit. According to reports, although the thermostat was only recently discovered as missing from Apple’s product offerings, it was ...

Are you a student, parent of a student, or educator who would you like a free pair of Beats headphones with your shiny, brand new MacBook, MacBook Pro, or other Mac computer purchase? If your answer is in the affirmative you’re in luck, with reports saying that Apple is throwing in a free pair of ...

Dropbox, Inc. has acquired enterprise communications startup Clementine, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2013 and launched in August 2014, Clementine offers messaging, conference calls, and voice calls within an enterprise environment, with an aim to helping companies make the most of mobile voice and text at work. “We’re now excited to announce the ...

The Open Container Initiative (OCI,) the peace project between CoreOS, Inc. and Docker, Inc. that put an end to the Container Wars back in June, received a boost Wednesday with news that 14 new companies had signed up. Linux Foundation’s executive director Jim Zemlin is reported to have made the announcement at the OSCON conference, along ...

Microsoft Corp.’s cybersecurity solution Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) will be made generally available in August 2015, the company announced Wednesday. Based on the on-premises cybersecurity software Microsoft acquired through its acquisition of Aorato, Inc. 2014, ATA, as its name suggests, offers threat analytics for on-premises data centers that helps companies identify advanced persistent threats before ...

Decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin exchange Coinffeine S.L. officially launched in beta Tuesday, offering exchange services to over 70 countries. Billed as the world’s first decentralized Bitcoin exchange, Coinffeine’s founders describe it as “BitTorrent for Bitcoin” in that it is completely distributed, just like BitTorrent, along with all the benefits that provides. Top of the list when ...

Two Florida men were arrested Tuesday on multiple charges relating to their operation of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Anthony Murgio and Yuri Lebedev stand accused of running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange which was operated through a phony front-company and, just for something different, through a registered ...

Photography community 500px, Inc., has raised $13 million Series B in a round led by Visual China Group that included previous investors Andreessen Horowitz, Harrison Metal, and ff Venture Capital. Founded in 2009, 500px is both a photo community where photographers can upload and share photos, as well as a marketplace where those same photographers ...