Apple Inc. is reported to have acquired audio software maker Camel Audio Inc. for an unknown sum. There’s no official announcement about the acquisition, but it has been confirmed by way of company registration in the United Kingdom. According to Macrumors Camel Audio has appointed Apple Europe lawyer Heather Joy Morrison as its director and changed its registered ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. may start accepting Bitcoin after CEO Hiroshi Mikitani confirmed the company was considering the move. “We are thinking about it, and we probably will,” Mikitani told the audience at the Rakuten Financial Conference, “We would like to be open [to Bitcoin].” According to Wall Street Journal Mikitani declined to specify when the ...

Former Moolah CEO Ryan Kennedy has been arrested over the theft of 3,700 Bitcoins from the now defunct Bitcoin exchange Mintpal. Troubles at Mintpal first emerged in July 2014 when the company reported that it had been “hacked” and had lost a large amount of a different cryptocurrency called VeriCoin. It turns out that was ...

Google Inc.’s video giant YouTube has today officially launched YouTube Kids, an iOS and Android app that, as the name may suggest, presents a kid-friendly version of YouTube. Rumors of the apps first surfaced last week, but YouTube made it official today in a blog post that explained how the new app was “built from the ...

The first official picture of Samsung Co. Ltd.’s upcoming new flagship mobile the Galaxy S6 has been released, and it definitely has curves! The picture, featured above, comes via T-Mobile CEO John Legere who tweeted a link to a page on the T-Mobile site that states that the “next big thing is almost here.” The ...

Online security firm Comodo Group Inc. has been accused of shipping adware that is “worse than Superfish,” another form of adware that Lenovo was slammed for shipping with laptops February 19th. Comodo bundles adware from AdTrustMedia called “Privdog” with its security products, including the Comodo Dragon browser, antivirus and firewall products. The company claims that Privdog is ...

Kevin Rose’s app startup North Technologies Inc. has announced the closure of its first app, the small photo and video sharing app Tiiny. Launched in 2013, the app let users take a thumbnail-sized photo or video and share it to a 3×4 grid on the Tiiny home screen, which could only be seen by people who followed you. Bizarrely ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. is preparing itself for an initial public offering (IPO,) although is in no rush according to a report published Friday. The news comes as the company reported revenue in excess of $100 million for 2014, and is adding an additional $1 million in annual recurring revenue every 7 days. The Wall ...

Machinima Inc. has taken $42 million Series E in a round led by Warner Bros. that included existing investors Redpoint Ventures, MK Capital and Coffin Capital. Founded in 2000, Machinima offers a range of programs to a community passionate about video games, animation, movies, TV, and the other endless forms of pop culture. Best known perhaps for ...

Buzzfeed Inc. has acquired animated gif app maker GoPop (Zeega Inc.) for an undisclosed price. Based in San Francisco, GoPop offered an iOS app that allowed users to blend multiple images into an animated gif, or what they called “a Pop.” In their own words: We saw that the web was giving rise to a ...