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 ...

In one of the more interesting meetings of minds in recent times, Google Inc., and Microsoft Corp. have announced that they are working together to merge two of their javascript technologies into the one platform. The announcement sees Microsoft’s TypeScript becoming the scripting language in Angular 2, Google’s javaScript web app framework. AngularJS may not be ...

Search solutions startup Swiftype Inc. has raised $13 million Series B in a round from New Enterprise Associates. Based in San Francisco, Swiftype offers a hosted search solution that allows site owners to deliver customizable search for their website or mobile app with just a few lines of code. The company claims to power search on ...

It has been over one month since SiliconANGLE reported exclusively on the intricate web behind one of the biggest Bitcoin scams since Mt. Gox, the tale of Tadas Kasputis and his related Bitcoin companies, EgoPay, Virtex.com and PaymentBase. Since first exposing the elaborate scam, this site has naturally received a pile of emails; the majority of which were from ...