Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer S.A. will officially join the smartwatch market with an expected announcement Thursday that it will be launching a new luxury watch in a partnership with Intel Corp. According to Reuters, the new watch will differentiate itself from the current crop of smartwatches and instead offer a digital replica of its Black Carrera ...

New York-based advertising technology firm AppNexus, Inc. has acquired rival Yieldex, Inc. in a move speculated to be leading to an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Officially, the price of the acquisition was not disclosed; however, The Wall Street Journal puts the figure at $100 million in a mixture of cash and stock. Claimed to be the largest ...

The United Kingdom has decided to embrace the opportunities afforded by Bitcoin with an announcement Wednesday that it will seek to regulate Bitcoin exchanges. The announcement, which came as part of the 2015 Budget, is part of a push by the U.K. government in its own words “to apply anti-money laundering regulation to digital currency exchanges ...

Viral content sharing startup PlayBuzz, Ltd. has raised $16 million in Series B in a round led by 83North Ltd. that included Saban Capital Group, Inc. and previous investors Carmel Ventures and FirstTime Ventures. Founded in 2012, PlayBuzz is a content platform that enables publishers, marketers, bloggers and others to create, distribute and embed quizzes, polls, ...

Darknet market Evolution, one of the most popular markets on the darknet following the collapse of Silk Road and Silk Road 2, is offline Wednesday with reports the admins may have scammed users and stolen millions. The site opened in January 2014, and like Silk Road before it dealt in drugs, as well as illegal ...

Is your pet pregnant? Are you worried you’ll miss the birth? Well, salvation is at hand with a new device that promises to alert you when your fur child is about to deliver little fur kids to the world. The Addik Pet is a birthing detector for your pet. This patented device detects the first significant ...

If you’ve read the news over the last day, you’d been under the impression that Microsoft has finally slayed its unloved browser Internet Explorer. If you believe that, you’d be mistaken. Internet Explorer isn’t going anywhere, at least for a good few more years to come. At the Microsoft Convergence conference in Atlanta Monday, Microsoft’s ...

You’re in a strange city, and the call of nature beckons you in unfamiliar surrounds, what do you do? While some cities provide ample public amenities, many don’t, such as New York City, and this is where Airpnp steps in, which, as the name may suggest, is an Airbnb Inc. style app for toilets, or as ...

The Whole Pantry, the app created by now disgraced fake cancer survivor Belle Gibson, has been pulled from Apple’s App Store. But it continues to be linked to promotions for the Apple Watch. Gibson, as we reported March 11, created the app based on a miraculous story of her surviving “terminal” cancer through lifestyle and ...

Adobe Systems Inc. is taking your PDFs to the cloud with a new service called the Adobe Document Cloud. The new service combines Adobe’s popular Acrobat software with the power of  cloud-based hosting and allows users to be able to edit, sign, send and track documents using the service across desktops, mobile and web. Not ...