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Apple’s back to school promo throws in a free pair of Beats Solo 2 headphones with Mac purchase
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 acquires enterprise comms startup Clementine, but it’s not sure why
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 ...
Open Container Initiative gets a boost with 14 new members, releases draft charter
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’s Advanced Threat Analytics to be made generally available in August
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 ...
Distributed P2P Bitcoin exchange Coinffeine opens offering services to 70+ countries
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 ...
Coin.mx founders arrested for running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange, money laundering
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 raises $13m Series B for push into China
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 ...
Microsoft posts record loss off Nokia debacle, but there were silver linings in cloud services
Microsoft Corp. has reported a record quarterly loss for their financial fourth quarter off the back of the write down of their mobile phone business, but still delivered some positives in terms of revenue growth among many divisions, including their cloud offerings. By the numbers Microsoft booked revenue for the quarter of $22 billion, gross ...
SE Asia and Africa-focused Bitcoin startup BitX raises $4m Series A
South East Asia and Africa-focused Bitcoin startup BitX has raised $4 million Series A in a round led by South Africa’s Naspers Group through their payments subsidiary PayU, that also included existing investor Digital Currency Group. Founded in 2013, BitX provides a variety of Bitcoin related services including Bitcoin wallets, a Bitcoin exchange, and Bitcoin ...
Seriously clever: Philippines’ Coins.ph uses Bitcoin in new service to deliver easy to use P2P cash transfers
A new service from Philippine Bitcoin startup Coins.ph allows users to transfer money to other users without the need to have a bank account. Called “Teller”, the system works by utilizing Coins.ph accounts and retailers who currently accept Bitcoin payments via the Coins.ph network to transfer actual fiat currency between two parties. Person A installs ...