Email fraud prevention startup Emailage Corp. has raised $3.8 million in a new round led by Felicis Ventures that included Double M Partners and Mucker Capital. Emailage helps customers world wide to predict fraud risk before a transaction happens, and promises to be the next logical solution to tracking digital reputations, clearing good transactions, and cutting fraud. The ...

Mobile stock photography startup Twenty20 Inc. has raised $8 million Series A in a round led by Canaan Partners that included First Round Capital, Bullpen Capital and VersionOne Ventures. Along with the new round Twenty20 have announced that it’s officially launching out of beta. Twenty20 offers what they claim is the world’s largest real-world stock image catalog. Their platform boasts ...

Real-time Bitcoin analytics startup Coinalytics have launched Blockstem API, a service which allows customers to query the Bitcoin blockchain and unveil hidden relationships. While open to everyone, the API will be particularly appealing to companies and organizations looking to find ways to beef up their fraud detection and compliance monitoring, and can also be used ...

Buzzfeed Inc. has launched a new app for rating pet pictures called Cute or Not. The app offers Tinder-like functionality for voting for pet pictures: you swipe right if the animal is cute, or swipe left if the dog or cat you’re viewing doesn’t rate as being given a cute swipe. Along with rating other people’s pets, ...

Notorious hacking group Lizard Squad is being blamed for a hack of Lenovo Group Ltd.’s main group site at Lenovo.com According to reports the hack went live around 4pm EST Wednesday when users visiting the site saw a carousel of pictures featuring various snaps of an emo kid, along with the song “Breaking Free” from High School Musical being played ...

California based Bitcoin miner Aquifer LLC has filled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as the continuing low price of Bitcoin makes it difficult for large scale mining operations to produce a profit. In a filing to the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California February 19th, Aquifer said it had between $1m and $10m in assets, ...

Cloud accounting software and services company Xero Ltd. has raised $110.8 million in post IPO funding in a round led by Accel Partners that included current investor Matrix Capital Management. Listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange, Xero offers software as a service (SaaS) accounting solutions to small to medium enterprises (SME’s.) Features include automatic bank and ...

Google Inc. has acquired Facebook marketing company Toro (Red Hot Labs Inc.) for an undisclosed price. Based in San Francisco, Toro claims its services offers the best way to run high performance Facebook campaigns for mobile apps. Their service offers split testing (A/B testing), lookalike targeting, and automatic bidding optimization, all packaged in what is ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. has acquired Authy Inc., a provider of two-factor authentication (2FA) for large-scale web and mobile applications. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Founded in 2012, Authy claims that it is the simplest way to add two-factor authentication to any website or app. Authy provides a simple API for developers to ...

Is Google now a massive multi-billion dollar prude? It could well be, with the tech giant announcing that it is banning publicly viewable sexually explicit material and graphic nudity on its blogging service Blogger. The company started to inform users Monday of the forthcoming change, and also posted a notice on its support pages explaining what was ...