Gaming platform provider Unity Technologies, Inc., the company that provided the engine that powers the insanely popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO, has raised $181 million Series C in a round led by DFJ Growth that included China Investment Corporation, FreeS Fund, Thrive Capital, and Max Levchin. According to The New York Times, the round ...

Blockchain technology startup SolidX Partners, Inc. have filed the paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) for their SolidX Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would offer exposure to bitcoin. According to their S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the trust will seek to provide shareholders with exposure to the daily ...

The backlash against crazily popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO continues to grow, with questions ranging from privacy through to it (seriously) being a capitalist big business plot. Starting at the stupid, but perhaps least insane argument is that of privacy, with revelations that Pokemon GO on iPhone was asking for full access to a user’s ...

‘Livestream all things’ may soon become Twitter, Inc.’s official company motto, with news Monday that the social blogging platform has signed a deal to livestream the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. The deal, signed with television network CBS, will see Twitter mobile and web users able to watch a live feed provided by CBSN, the CBS-owned ...

A malicious version of the popular Pokemon GO augmented reality game has been discovered on third-party sites, targeting users who are looking to playing the game but are unable to download it officially in their own country as of yet. Researchers at security firm Proofpoint, Inc. discovered an infected Android version of the newly released ...

Ukraine might be better known as an Eastern European country that has been partially invaded by Russia, but it also wants to be known for another reason, and that’s its full embrace of blockchain technologies. At a conference in the country on Thursday Ukraine’s Minister of Finance, Oleksandr Danilyuk announced that his Ministry will start ...

Twitter, Inc. wants to expand its fledgling live sports streaming service by obtaining rights to more sports, according to a report Friday. Re/Code claims that Twitter is in talks with the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Soccer (MLS) and Turner Broadcasting for deals that could allow them to stream entire games, or offer a ...

Augmented reality gaming app Pokemon GO is breaking records with the game surging to the top of both the Apple App Store and Google Play charts for both downloads and revenue only days after being released. The game was released in the United States on July 6 and a remarkable five hours later became the ...

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase, Inc. has raised $10.5 million Series D in a round led by Japanese banking giant Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) that included the bank’s Mitsubishi UFJ Capital unit, and Sozo Ventures. The funding came with a new strategic deal between the company and BTMU that Coinbase said in a statement would support ...

A man has been charged with attacking a Google Street View car with Molotov cocktails, attacking other vehicles and firing bullets into buildings at Google’s Mountain View headquarters because he thought the search giant was watching him. Raul Murillo Diaz, 30, of Oakland, California, was charged with arson by federal prosecutors and is currently being ...