Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. is opening up its verified account process by allowing anyone to apply for a blue checkmark next to their name, a mark that identifies (as the name may suggest) that the account holder is indeed who they say they are. Twitter first introduced verified accounts in 2009 as a ...

A company by the name of EtherIndex LLC has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an exchange traded fund (ETF) based on ether, the up and coming bitcoin competitor that runs on the Ethereum network. The filing marks the first time a company has attempted to list an ETF based ...

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these last two weeks you’d know that app and gaming history has been made with the unprecedented craze that is the augmented reality game Pokemon GO. The game, in which players collect then fight Pokemon characters in the real world, has already seen a backlash (Pokemon Go backlash), ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has launched a new platform that allows companies to test blockchain technology in their supply chains. The new service utilizes the company’s LinuxOne system and allows supply chain customers to build and test blockchains in a secure cloud; the service is being pitched to companies that need to track high-value ...

Yahoo, Inc.’s likely last financial report as an independent listed company unsurprisingly missed market expectations Monday as the once great internet company continued its fall from grace. For the second quarter of 2016, Yahoo reported revenue of $1.3 billion, surprisingly up 5 percent of the same period in 2015, however, revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs ...

Enterprise bitcoin payments processor Bitnet Technologies Ltd. looks set to be possibly leaving the bitcoin payment industry, with a report that it is in the process of selling its intellectual property assets to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Inc. The Wall Street Journal claims to have seen a memo related to the deal, and that Rakuten ...

The buyer of Yahoo, Inc.’s core business could be known as soon as the end of the week, with the fourth, and final bids for the company due Monday. According to reports, the final bids are due the same day the company is reporting its second quarter earnings. As of the last round, Verizon is ...

A group by the name of Poodle Corp. has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack that has taken the servers of insanely popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO offline. The attack, which started just prior to the game being launched in 26 new countries, started Saturday and continued into early Sunday, ...

Disgraced former Mt Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles has been released on bail in Japan following his detention in July last year on multiple charges relating to the collapse of the bitcoin exchange in 2014. According to News24 (in Japanese) Karpeles paid 10 million yen ($94,500) to secure his release, and as part of ...

Bitcoin wallet provider iPayYou, Inc. has launched a new “Pay-by-Twitter” feature that allows users to make peer-to-peer payments on Twitter. iPayYou is claimed to be the first bitcoin wallet that enables Twitter’s 310 million monthly users to make peer-to-peer payments over Twitter. Payments are made by simply entering a recipient’s Twitter account name instead of an ...