Messaging giant LINE Corp. has added to its ever-growing lists of features and add-ons with the official launch of its new dedicated selfie app that offers users 78 filters. The new app, called B612, after an asteroid upon which the character resides in the classic French novella, The Little Prince,  is available for free on iOS ...

In something that won’t come as a surprise to most followers of the Altcoin space, the founders of yet another cryptocurrency have been linked to Ponzi schemes. Dan Anderson and Atif Kamran, the founders of LEOCoin, have been linked to UNAICO Pakistan, an IT Services company that was accused of running a Ponzi scheme by the Securities ...

Global roaming rates are the bane of anyone who travels overseas, but what if you could sign up to a cell provider that didn’t charge you a penny more to use your phone on the road. That’s exactly what Google Inc. is planning on with a report over the weekend that it’s in negotiations to ...

OpenStack hardware startup Nebula Inc. is no more with an announcement Thursday that it had ceased trading. Self-proclaimed as the “world’s first enterprise cloud computer” provider, Nebula offered a product that allowed businesses to easily, securely, and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. The company developed a hardware appliance called Nebula One that allowed any ...

New York based ridesharing startup Via Transport Inc. has raised $27 million Series B in a round led by Pitango Venture Capital that included Expansion Venture Capital, 83North, Ervington Investments and Hearst Ventures. The company provides what it calls “on-demand transit” within a small area of the Manhattan borough of New York, including the Upper ...

LinkedIn Inc. has acquired predictive insights app maker Refresh Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, Refresh offers an iOS app that gives users the “right insights about the people you’re about to meet.” If that makes no sense, you won’t be alone, but the easier way of describing it is that the app gives ...

Cloud gaming service OnLive Inc. has finally given up the ghost and will officially close its service April 30th following a troubled, yet colorful history. OnLive said in a statement that Sony Corp. had acquired “important parts of OnLive” and that “their plans don’t include a continuation of the game service in its current form.” The ...

Alas we hardly knew thee, with news this week that the Bitcoin Bowl is no longer after a single outing back in December 2014. The sponsorship deal with BitPay Inc. was supposed to be for three years and saw the St Petersberg Bowl known simply as “The Bitcoin Bowl.” The official line is that parties ...

Online advertising firm Rubicon Project has acquired software as a service (SaaS) programmatic advertising company Chango Inc. for $122 million. According to reports, Rubicon made the acquisition to build its premium ad marketplace through Chango’s intent marketing technology. Founded in 2008, Chango uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant and timely advertising campaigns that ...

Overstock.com, Inc. has invested $5 million into San Jose based Bitcoin technology specialist PeerNova Inc., as part of the second tranche of Series A funding. The company, at least on paper was founded in early 2014, but was the result of a merger of two separate pre-existing companies: cloud mining contractor CloudHashing and ASIC designer HighBitcoin. ...