Mappsafe Pty. Ltd. is a new company seeking funding on Indegogo for an application that aims to make your journey safer. The Melbourne, Australia-based firm claims that the application is the world’s first crowd-sourced mobile app in this space, and that the it reduces violence in public areas by mapping safe and unsafe places. Mappsafe gathers information from ...

HBO Inc., will be launching its new online television streaming service HBO Online in April, with news that CTO Otto Berkes has resigned due to the company outsourcing the streaming technology for the service to MLB Advanced. The April launch date comes from an internal memo, and will be timed to coincide with the new season of ...

There’s never a dull day for rideshare startup Uber Inc., and today is no different with news of a range of new bans, problems and legal suits. The first ban comes from military junta-ruled Thailand, where the Thai Department of Land Transport have said that Uber is illegal because the company uses private cars rather ...

New Hampshire-based Ziftr has launched its new alternative currency (altcoin) ziftrCOIN on presale today. ziftrCOIN is being pitched as a gateway coin to mainstream cryptocurrency, and has been “designed to onboard the next 10 million cryptocurrency users and to help fulfil Ziftr’s goal of bringing cryptocurrency into the mainstream for consumers and retailers.” The coin ...

Bitcoin exchange company Bitreserve Inc.,  has raised over $8 million and growing through investment crowdfunding platform CrowdCube. The Charleston, S.C.-based company headed by CNET founder Hasley Minor offers a Bitcoin currency exchange and payment services. The company pitches itself as enabling “members to escape Bitcoin volatility by holding bitcoin as stable, real-world money, but to still spend their money as Bitcoin.” ...

Portland, Oregon has decided it doesn’t want a piece of the ride-sharing revolution, sending a cease and desist (C&D) letter to the movement’s poster child, Uber Inc., at the same time suing the company to force it to stop operating in the city. The C&D refers to Portland’s City Code Chapter 16:40 which regulates private for hire ...

One of the hardest aspects for merchants wishing to offer their services or product in Bitcoin is volatility, with the cryptocurrency being notoriously fickle in its exchange rate. Hedgy wants to eliminate that level of volatility. San Mateo, CA-based Hedgy uses “the first principles of derivatives combined with the novelty of the Bitcoin block chain ...

Things continue to go from bad to worse for Uber Inc. with the Delhi Government banning the service, as it has also been revealed that the driver alleged of raping a passenger had previously been jailed for rape, and the company may be charged with negligence for allowing the rape to occur by failing to follow ...

Indian police arrested an Uber driver Sunday who allegedly raped a passenger Friday night November 5th. Local media says the driver attacked the 27-year-old woman, who works for a finance company, after she hired the cab in Gurgaon near Delhi. The woman said in her complaint to local police that after getting into the car she fell ...

The devastating hacking of Sony Corp’s internal systems has taken an interesting turn, with a source of the hacking being tracked to Bangkok, Thailand. The hack, which started late November is reported to have been traced to the 4 1/2 star St. Regis Hotel in Bangkok on December 1st, the dates where the hackers first started leaking hacked documents ...