Mega games company Activision Blizzard, Inc. has acquired Candy Crush Saga maker King Digital Entertainment PLC for a cool $5.9 billion. According to The Financial Times, the acquisition is the biggest takeover of a UK-based tech company since HP acquired Autonomy for $11 billion four years ago. The deal is said to give the combined ...

If an offer is too good to be true it usually is, and in the case of a new Bitcoin offering it screams scam from the rooftops. Called Miners Center, the site offers to buy Bitcoin at a 10 percent premium as part of the push the company describes as acquiring enough Bitcoin in reserve ...

A new report has found that Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware operators have raked in around $325 million in ransom income for the malware developers since version 3.0 was first detected in the wild in January this year. The report comes from the Cyber Threat Alliance, a group comprised of several companies including Symantec, Fortinet, McAfee (Intel ...

A new game for the as-yet-to-be-released to the public Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is causing controversy, as it recreates the dark day that was 9/11 from a victim’s viewpoint. Titled 8:46 after the time American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the game allows users ...

Twitter, Inc. has taken to legacy broadcast media for the first time with a new television commercial that allegedly is meant to highlight their new Moments feature. Allegedly is the key word, because the ad channels the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson and drug fueled binges. The new Twitter ad first debuted during the World ...

Disgraced former Mt Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles was rearrested on fresh charges in Japan Wednesday with reports that that at least some of the stolen Bitcoin from the exchange was spent on hiring prostitutes. Karpeles had been previously arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in July on charges of “fraudulently producing and ...

We live in a digital age where our data can cross borders in the blink of an eye, but little has changed when it comes to doing the same in person in a century; to cross most country borders we require a physical passport (the current form first agreed on in 1920). But given the wonder ...

LinkedIn, Inc. continued its market-beating run in the third quarter with the business-oriented social network provider once again surpassing analyst predictions. The company booked $780 million for the third quarter on earnings of 78 cents per share, a 37 percent increase over the same quarter of 2014 and well ahead of analysts who were expecting ...

A long-rumored merger may finally be happening with a report Thursday that Google is looking to merge its Android and ChromeOS operating systems. The Wall Street Journal quotes the proverbial “people familiar with the matter” as saying that ChromeOS will be folded into Android as the latter has become by far the more dominant operating ...

Microsoft has signed a deal with Consensys (Consensus Systems, Inc.) to develop new Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-service products and new tools for its cloud-based service platform Azure. The Ethereum based service will officially be launched at the Ethereum developer conference, DΞVCON1, in London on 10th November, and will include the flagship offerings of BlockAppsStrato, a toolkit for building ...