Despite some setbacks in terms of what apps it may support, the forthcoming Apple TV received a boost Monday with news that both VLC and Plex will be coming to the new set top box. The developers behind VLC announced that they were working on a tvOS app via a side note in a general ...

Despite delivering a phone with mixed reviews and one that looks physically the same as its predecessor, it’s mostly good news for Apple today with the company reporting that it’s on track to beat records with their new iPhone 6S. The phone, officially announced September 9 keeping with Apple tradition of annual updates, saw a ...

Mark Karpeles, the Chief Executive Officer of failed Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, is one step closer to being thrown in jail with news out of Japan that he has now formally been charged in relation to crimes committed while he was running the now bankrupt exchange. Karpeles had previously been arrested on two occasions: in ...

Real-time Bitcoin Blockchain analytics startup Coinalytics, Inc. has raised $1.1 million in a seed round from The Hive. Founded in 2014, Coinalytics offers a number of services relating to the real-time tracking of the Bitcoin Blockchain to allow companies to undertake risk assessments, among other related security and compliance tracking. The company’s main Blockstem API ...

Public transit app maker HopStop, Inc. is to cease offering its services some two years after being acquired by Apple. The app maker, rumored to have been acquired for the price of $1 billion in July 2013, provides transit and mapping services for 140 cities worldwide including New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, London, ...

The shine and gloss around the promise of apps in the new version the Apple TV has diminished somewhat over the weekend with news that the new operating system for the device doesn’t support Webview. Webview, if you’re not familiar with the term, is the ability to render content from web pages in an application ...

Bitcoin Blockchain powered remittance app maker Abra, Inc. has raised $12 million Series A in a round that included Arbor Ventures, RRE Ventures, and First Round Capital. Founded in 2014, Abra wants to “take cash mobile” with what they claim is a world’s first digital cash, peer to peer money transfer network. The Abra system ...

Let the battle begin. Google has re-entered the war for mobile payment services with the rollout of their new Android Pay service in the United States Thursday. First announced at the Google I/O conference back in May, the new payment service allows users with Android phones with Near Field Communications (NFC) support to pay using ...

Salesforce.com, Inc. has a “new home” for apps with the launch Thursday of the new Salesforce App Cloud. An offshoot of the company’s Salesforce 1 platform, the App Cloud has been designed specifically for enterprise and includes several components including Heroku Enterprise, Force.com functionality and the newish Lightning Experience platform. The App Cloud delivers one ...

Fraud protection startup Feedzai, Inc. has announced a new partnership with online identity verification firm Socure, Inc. that will see the two offer a joint fraud protection solution for financial institutions. The new product is described as a “plug-and-play” solution that combines online and social data-based authentication with fraud risk scoring, and sees Feedzai incorporating ...