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Line Corp shares surge on NYSE debut in biggest tech float of 2016
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 ...
BitTorrent to launch new live news service at Republican National Convention
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 ...
Pokemon GO users targeted it phishing scam that demands money to keep playing the game
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 ...
Unity Technologies, the company that provides the platform behind Pokemon GO, raises $181m
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 startup SolidX files for IPO of its Bitcoin Trust ETF
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 ...
Pokemon GO backlash grows with attacks on everything from privacy through to it being a capitalist conspiracy
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 ...
Twitter to livestream both Republican and Democratic National Conventions following CBS deal
‘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 ...
Malware infected version of Pokemon GO is being distributed on third party app sites
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 to run Government auctions on custom blockchain platform to eliminate corruption
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 ...
Report: Twitter talking to NBA, MLS and Turner about additional sports streaming
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 ...