Blog aggregator Notey has raised a $1.6 million seed round from individual investors Steve Kirsch (Founder of Infoseek, OneID and CoinTrust), Hugo Barra (VP International, Xiaomi) and Ryan Holmes (CEO and Founder of Hootsuite). Based in Hong Kong, Notey aims to deliver “a window to the blogosphere” and offers something that’s roughly a cross between Feedly ...

Samsung Co. Ltd.’s latest flagship model the Galaxy S6 may come with wireless charging when it’s launched next month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC.) Samsung engineer Seho Park took to Samsung’s Official Global Blog to talk wireless charging, complete with the history of the technology behind wireless charging, and naturally Samsung’s involvement its development. The post ...

Snapchat Inc. is reported to be seeking a new round (Series E) on a $16-$19 billion valuation as another report claims it may be interested in acquiring Taylor Swift’s record company. Bloomberg claims that the popular self-destructing photo sharing app maker is seeking $500 million from the round. Snapchat’s last round of $485.6 million was ...

A new report from security software provider Kaspersky Lab has found that a group they’ve dubbed “Equation Group” has been hiding spying software deep within hard drives made by leading manufacturers including Seagate and Western Digital, in an attempt to eavesdrop on the majority of computers worldwide. Kaspersky said it found the spyware in computers across 30 ...

Short form news startup News in Shorts has raised $4 million Series A in a round led by Tiger Global Management that included Lee Fixel, Rebright Partners, Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal. News is Shorts, despite its name, doesn’t imply that the founders aren’t wearing long pants versus offering a fascinating, primarily mobile app-focused startup that delivers the latest ...

Infosys International Inc. has acquired enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider Panaya Ltd. for $200 million. Menlo Park, CA-based Panaya applies “big data analytics” to enterprise apps including SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Salesforce and others that allows customers to know “what will break, how to fix it, and what to test – before making any changes.” Their ...

Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER.com claimed Sunday that its exchange had been targeted by a major hack that had seen it lose 7170 Bitcoins, currently valued at $1.66 million. The exchange ceased trading and suspended all Bitcoin wallets, saying in a statement on its site that: 7170 BTC got stolen from our cold wallet in this transaction: ...

When many think bank robberies they may think of balaclava-wearing crooks with shot guns terrorising bank employees, but in 2015 bank robbery is a far more subtle affair involving multi-national crime gangs hacking into bank systems using malware. In a report to be published Monday, security firm Kaspersky details malware attacks that have stolen at least ...

After an ongoing level of uncertainty surrounding the use of drones for commercial purposes, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a set of rules for commercial drone operation that will see some winners, and some losers in the emerging space Under the proposed regulations basic commercial operations, such as news gathering will be allowed, ...

Although smart phone support in cars is old school in 2015, what if you could buy a car that was designed from the ground up to work with the latest model iPhone? That’s the problem Apple may well be tackling with a report today that they are building an electric car, or as it will may well be called, ...