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 ...

The Wilkenvoss twins’ bitcoin exchange the Gemini Trust Company LLC has signed a new partnership and sponsorship deal with professional eSports organization Echo Fox. Under the deal, Gemini will work with Echo Fox to integrate bitcoin payments into the eSports industry, and in return, Gemini will sponsor Echo Fox eSports teams. “Due to a general ...

Messaging services company Line Corp. floated on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday with shares debuting at $42, a premium of 33 percent of its initial public offering price of $32.84. making it the biggest float of a technology company in 2016. According to CNBC Line offered 22 million shares on the New York Stock ...

CNN, Fox News, MSNBC … BitTorrent. The addition of BitTorrent, Inc. to the list of news channels is about to become reality, with the company announcing that it will be launching its new live news channel BitTorrent News at the Republican National Convention July 18. BitTorrent News will feature exclusively on BitTorrent’s Live television streaming ...

Augmented reality game Pokemon GO has been an unprecedented success, but where ever there is something highly successful cybercriminals are sure to follow and sadly a new phishing scam is doing just that. The new Pokemon GO phishing scam involves users receiving an email pretending to be from game developer Niantic, Inc. and demands players ...

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 ...