The first official picture of Samsung Co. Ltd.’s upcoming new flagship mobile the Galaxy S6 has been released, and it definitely has curves! The picture, featured above, comes via T-Mobile CEO John Legere who tweeted a link to a page on the T-Mobile site that states that the “next big thing is almost here.” The ...

Online security firm Comodo Group Inc. has been accused of shipping adware that is “worse than Superfish,” another form of adware that Lenovo was slammed for shipping with laptops February 19th. Comodo bundles adware from AdTrustMedia called “Privdog” with its security products, including the Comodo Dragon browser, antivirus and firewall products. The company claims that Privdog is ...

Kevin Rose’s app startup North Technologies Inc. has announced the closure of its first app, the small photo and video sharing app Tiiny. Launched in 2013, the app let users take a thumbnail-sized photo or video and share it to a 3×4 grid on the Tiiny home screen, which could only be seen by people who followed you. Bizarrely ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. is preparing itself for an initial public offering (IPO,) although is in no rush according to a report published Friday. The news comes as the company reported revenue in excess of $100 million for 2014, and is adding an additional $1 million in annual recurring revenue every 7 days. The Wall ...

Machinima Inc. has taken $42 million Series E in a round led by Warner Bros. that included existing investors Redpoint Ventures, MK Capital and Coffin Capital. Founded in 2000, Machinima offers a range of programs to a community passionate about video games, animation, movies, TV, and the other endless forms of pop culture. Best known perhaps for ...

Buzzfeed Inc. has acquired animated gif app maker GoPop (Zeega Inc.) for an undisclosed price. Based in San Francisco, GoPop offered an iOS app that allowed users to blend multiple images into an animated gif, or what they called “a Pop.” In their own words: We saw that the web was giving rise to a ...

New documents released by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed how the NSA and U.K. security agency GCHQ hacked into the computers of SIM card manufacturer Gemalto, acquiring encryption keys that would allow them to intercept communications from users around the world. Gamalto is the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and is used by all ...

Swiss social sharing site Boldomatic has closed a $700,000 seed round from a number of European angels and investors. The company, which pitches itself as a “content-creation platform and community… determined to conquer the world of words in social media” offers, as their own words may hint at, a social network that consists entirely of text ...

Reddit Inc. is giving back to the community after it pledged Wednesday to donate 10 percent of its ad earnings from 2014 to charity. Reddit reported advertising revenue of $8,276,594.93 for the year ending December 31st, meaning it will donate $827,659.49 to ten charities. The charities to benefit from Reddit’s altruism? Reddit being Reddit, naturally the community ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has acquired mobile wallet solutions provider LoopPay Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, LoopPay offers a mobile payments solution that turns existing magnetic stripe readers into secure, contactless receivers, and works with approximately 90 percent of existing point-of-sale (POS) terminals in the United States. The tech works by way of ...