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. ...

Facebook Inc. has launched a new feature that allows you to create a scrapbook of tagged photos of your children which is shared with your partner. The new feature is the result of a survey by Facebook of parents using the social network. The results found that 65 percent of respondents said that they tag their ...

Users of the now defunct Darknet marketplace Evolution may be in a spot of bother with news Monday that Reddit has been subpoenaed for details of users who participated on a Subreddit related to the service. Evolution was a popular successor site to notorious drug and illegal goods market Silk Road, but mysteriously disappeared in the ...

Added to the list of “things you can’t make up,” two Federal agents have been arrested on charges that they stole Bitcoin from Silk Road. The agents, named by The New York Times as Carl Mark Force IV, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA,) and Shaun W. Bridges, who worked for the Secret ...

Google Inc.’s Gmail for Android has received a long-desired upgrade with the app now offering a unified inbox, along with a range of additional features. According to the Official Gmail blog, the new unified inbox will allow users to view all their mail at once, regardless of which account it’s from, using the new “All Inboxes” ...