Car insurance comparison platform startup The Zebra (Insurance Zebra, Inc.) has raised $17 million Series A in a round that included Mark Cuban, Mike Maples Jr., Simon Nixon, Silverton Partners, Daher Capital and Ballast Point Ventures. Founded in 2012, The Zebra aims to simplify car insurance by allowing drivers to anonymously compare dozens of insurance ...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) workplace training startup Grovo, Inc. has raised $40 million Series C in a round led by Accel Partners that included Costanoa Venture Capital, SoftTech VC, Greg Waldorf, and Vayner Capital. Founded in 2010, Grovo describes itself as “reinventing learning for the modern workforce” with a next-generation learning solution that combines technology, engaging microlearning ...

Apple broke its own quarterly records once again in the last quarter of 2015, but this may be the last record quarter for the technology giant as iPhone sales begin to slow. For the quarter ending December 26, 2015, Apple made a record $75.9 billion in revenue on income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per ...

Bitcoin exchange Bitcoin Vietnam Co. Ltd. and Bitcoin merchant services provider Coinify ApS have announced a new deal that will see Coinify’s Blockchain powered merchant processing tools deployed in the Vietnamese market. Under the deal Vietnamese merchants will now be able to receive payments for goods in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies supported by Coinify. The ...

Advertising on the Facebook-owned photo sharing app Instagram is going gangbusters, according to new data. Marketing software company Brand Networks, LLC, an advertising partner for the app, has revealed in a report (pdf) that since Facebook launched its Instagram advertising API mid last year, the number of ads served through its platform displayed in the ...

Despite the failure of its Fire phone, Amazon.com, Inc. still wants a slice of the phone market and is attempting to get Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to deeply integrate its services into handsets. According to The Information (subscription only), Amazon has discussed working with phone brands at a “factory level” to integrate its services with ...

Stocks in Twitter, Inc. dived in trading Monday following confirmation that the company has “lost” five key executives in the latest sign of trouble for the declining social platform provider. Rumors of the purge at Twitter first emerged Sunday, resulting in a post from Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey confirming the changes. Included in the ...

Multiple virtual reality (VR) headsets are coming to market in 2016, and first up is HTC Corporation’s Vive headset. I had the opportunity to test the Vive Developer Edition on Saturday at a demonstration at my local coworking space with fellow SiliconANGLE writer James Austin Farrell, and I walked away seriously underwhelmed. If virtual reality ...

In an interesting case that blurs the line between doing what’s right and wrong, it has been disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) actually operated a child porn site in 2015 in an attempt to track down users who trade in kiddie porn. Let that sink in for a moment: a taxpayer funded ...

Slowly sinking messaging come microblogging service Twitter, Inc. is facing yet another shakeup, with reports at the weekend suggesting that it may be about to lose up to five top executives. According to multiple reports from Re/Code the list of those departing the company includes Vice President Senior Engineering Alex Roetter, Vice President Global Media ...