Software as a Service (SaaS) business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. (Looker) has raised $30 million Series B in a round led by Meritech Capital Partners that included Sapphire Ventures, and previous investors Redpoint Ventures, First Round Capital and PivotNorth. Based in Santa Cruz, CA, Looker offers a browser-based development environment for business intelligence. The service ...

Consumer Affairs Victoria, Australia, and possibly Victoria Police are said to be investigating Belle Gibson, the creator of popular iOS, and Apple Watch default app The Whole Pantry. Authorities are looking into allegations of charity fraud, and that she deceived the public by faking stories about having cancer for financial gain. Gibson, 28, built the ...

Security and networking solutions provider Blue Coat Systems Inc., has been acquired by Bain Capital in a deal reported to be $2.4 billion including debt. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Blue Coat offers a range of products across security, WAN optimization, personal security and service provider caching. The company claims that its integrated portfolio of products ...

Hyperconnectivity startup SimpliVity Inc. has raised $175 million Series D in a round led by Waypoint Capital that included previous investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Growth and Meritech Capital Partners. Founded in 2009, SimpiVity’s main product Omnicube offers a unified data center stack that eliminates the need ...

Google Inc. rolled out the latest edition of its mobile operating system Monday with a number of new features. Android 5.1, which unlike Android 4 releases hasn’t been given a unique name (it’s still Lollipop), has as its new features support for multiple SIM cards, Device Protection and high-definition (HD) voice on compatible phones. The ...

Facebook Inc. has announced that it will close social network Friendfeed April 9th. Acquired by Facebook in 2009 for a rumored $50 million, the site offered a news feed style layout that allowed users to share links and content in real time. It never acquired a huge user base, but it was highly influential in ...

Pioneering tech blog Gigaom today announced that it was ceasing trading due to an inability to pay its bills. Founded by former Forbes writer Om Malik in 2006, Gigaom was among the first wave of big, influential tech blogs that emerged in the second half of the 2000’s, all-around the time where blogging first became a ...

News Corporation has acquired Indian information services group Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt. Ltd., the owner of the VCCircle Network. The VCCircle Network consists of a range of sites, all (as their name may suggest) providing information and services primarily to venture capital investors. Its core site VCCircle.com offers private equity, venture capital, and M&A related information ...

BitTorrent Inc.’s popular torrent software uTorrent is under fire from users after it was discovered that the latest version secretly installs a cryptocurrency miner as part of the package. The secret miner, named Epic Scale, mines for an altcoin named Litecoin, a competitor to Bitcoin and generally regarded as the second most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin ...

Five people connected to disgraced Hong Kong-based Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin are reported to have been arrested Thursday. The South China Morning Post claims that the five arrested may not have been running the scam, but were promoters of it, saying that three women arrested are accused of collecting money from some of the victims to help ...