Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. has signed a deal with the National Football League (NFL) to stream 10 Thursday night National Football League games during the 2016 season. Neither the NFL or Twitter confirmed the amount of the deal although Bloomberg puts the cost of the deal at $10 million. Twitter is said to ...

Distributed peer-to-peer Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar has opened for business after one month of testing. Founded in 2014 as a fork of the DarkMarket project, OpenBazaar provides a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) e-commerce marketplace powered by Bitcoin payments that utilizes P2P networking, Ricardian contracts, decentralized reputation, and multi signature escrow for Bitcoin payments. As it is ...

Bank backed Blockchain fintech development consortium R3 (R3CEV LLC) has signed a new strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop, test and deploy Blockchain technologies on Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service cloud. If you’re not familiar with R3, the consortium was founded in 2015 to design and deliver advanced distributed/shared ledger technologies to global financial markets and ...

Salesforce.com, Inc. has acquired deep learning startup MetaMind, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, MetaMind built an automated image recognition platform founded on deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) that aimed to “simplify the complexity of our daily lives.” The company was also building language based applications which it describes as “enterprise-grade AI.” ...

Own a Revolv smart home device? The bad news is that you are completely and utterly screwed with news Monday that the Alphabet, Inc. (the company formerly known as Google) owned Nest isn’t just discontinuing Revolv device support, but actually disabling every single Revolv at the same time. According to Business Insider, the decision was ...

Caribbean-based Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt, Inc. has raised $4 million Series A from Overstock.com, Inc. Founded in 2016, Bitt offers a digital asset exchange whose core focus is on providing access to cryptocurrencies in emerging markets with a high-frequency trading platform that is claimed to offer the highest levels of access, security, customer service, transparency, ...

Could ransomware be legal if it’s used to enforce copyright infringements? That’s a question that will soon need to be answered with a proposal floated by U.K. copyright enforcement group Rightscorp Ltd. that would see browser access denied to users accused of illegally downloading copyrighted material until such time they paid a fine to regain ...

All is not well at the Facebook, Inc. owned virtual reality headset making company Oculus Rift with the company forced to refund shipping fees to users who had pre-ordered the device due to shipping delays, which perhaps worse still are being blamed on component shortages. The much-hyped virtual reality headset started shipping March 28 but ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed in a memo Friday that its method to crack an iPhone in the San Bernadino terrorism case was applicable to other phones, and they we’re willing to help State and Local law enforcement agencies in doing so. According to the memo, obtained by Reuters, the Bureau said it ...

Jay Z appears to be a very unhappy musician with reports Thursday that he was taking legal action against the people he purchased streaming music service Tidal from over allegedly inflated subscriber numbers. The legal action itself is being taken Project Panther Bidco, Jay Z’s holding company and is seeking compensation, claiming that the purchase ...