Bitcoin surveillance startup Elliptic Enterprises Ltd. has signed a deal with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to bring the latter’s anti-money laundering risk management data into its bitcoin transaction monitoring and compliance products. With the combination of the data both companies are hoping that the service will deliver bank-grade Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations to bitcoin transactions allowing ...

Parents who don’t want to expose their children to advertising on YouTube videos now have an option of paying for the privilege with the video giant announcing that its YouTube Kids app now supports YouTube Red in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. If you’re not familiar with either product YouTube Red was launched ...

The emerging battle for online television services is heating up with news Wednesday that Time Warner, Inc. has taken a 10 percent stake in streaming and video on demand service Hulu LLC. According to reports Time Warner acquired the stake for $583 million in cash, valuing Hulu at $5.83 billion; The Walt Disney Company, 21st ...

Intel Corp. has issued a safety recall of its Basis Peak fitness watch after it was discovered that it could burn the person wearing it. The recall follows attempts by the company to update software on the watch to address the overheating issue. “We are issuing this safety recall of the Basis Peak watch because ...

Predictive analytics startup SiteZeus, Inc. has raised $1.5 Series B in a round led by Chuck Cooper and a number of unnamed additional backers. Founded in 2013, SiteZeus’ platform offers predictive analytics for real-world sites through the combination of artificial intelligence, Big Data, and data visualization technology. The platform is designed for retail, restaurant, and ...

If you’ve got a Yahoo, Inc. account you may want to reset your password with news that a hacker is currently offering login data for 200 million Yahoo accounts on the dark web. The hacker selling the logins goes by the name of Peace_of_Mind (Peace) and is the same hacker behind the release of verified ...

Blogging platform provider Medium (A Medium Corporation) has acquired Embed.ly, Inc., a company that as its name may suggest offers a service that makes it easy for publishers to embed third party content, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2010, Embed.ly offers a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple; ...

Leading bitcoin exchange Bitfinex (BTXNA, Inc.) has temporarily ceased trading after the company reported a security breach that led to the theft of a large number of bitcoins. The amount believed to have been stolen is 119,756 bitcoin, which at the time of writing is valued at $65.6 million. Bitfinex said in a blog post ...

Health monitoring smartwatch maker iBeat, Inc. has announced it has closed an approximately $1.5 million seed round that was led by Maveron, Subtraction Capital, and Correlation Ventures that included Ali and Hadi Partovi, NFL offensive tackle Russell Okung, KKR founding partner Henry Kravis, Band of Angels, and Ammunition Group. Based in San Francisco and founded in ...

Could there be a crackdown on online porn under a Donald Trump presidency? The answer to that question is possibly yes, with the Republican candidate for President having signed a pledge with an anti-porn group that, on paper at least, commits him to doing just that. Enough is Enough, who describe themselves as a nonprofit ...