Coinbase Inc. has raised $75 million Series C in a round led by DFJ Growth that included The New York Stock Exchange, USAA, BBVA (Brazil), NTT Docomo (Japan), Valar Capital Group, Vikram Pandit, Tom Glocer and Carlos Rodriguez Pastor. Previous investors Andreessen Horowitz, Reddit Capital and Union Square Ventures also participated in the round. The ...

Twitter Inc. has acquired Indian firm ZipDial Mobile Solutions Pvt (ZipDial) for a figure believed to be $30 million. Rumors that acquisition talks were taking place first surfaced January 14th.  Described by Twitter as “a product partner based in Bangalore, India” the company offers a mobile platform that lets people follow and engage with content across ...

Amazon produced content is coming to the big screen with an announcement today that its Amazon Studios division will now be producing original movies for theaters, as well as Amazon Prime. The distribution of the movies will differ slightly to releases from traditional studios in that they will premiere on Prime Instant Video in the ...

Google Inc. could be taking its goliath search engine to the moon and beyond, with a report today that it is in talks to invest in Elon Musk’s SpaceX on a valuation of $10 billion. The Information reported that the deal is still in the works, and is aimed at supporting the development of SpaceX ...

If you use a laptop you know one basic limitation: screen size. Sure you can live with it but what if you could add one or two portable, lightweight foldable monitors to your laptop ,which you can easily deploy when you’re on the go? Meet LapExpand, brilliant portable multiple displays for laptops. LapExpand is described by ...

ChangeCoin Inc.’s tipping service ChangeTip has brought Bitcoin tipping to Facebook Inc. for the first time. The company announced that the extension into Facebook tipping was due to popular demand, and builds on their existing Twitter Inc. and reddit Inc. tipping services. Users can access Facebook Bitcoin tipping by logging into their ChangeTip account with ...

Uber Inc. has ramped up the sales pitch in Europe, with CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick telling an audience at the DLD conference Sunday that the company could deliver a range of benefits if Governments came to the table in making the service legal. “We want to make 2015 the year when we create new partnerships with ...

Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay has ceased trading, with unconfirmed reports that the founders of the company may have stolen millions in funds from clients. Problems at EgoPay surfaced late December when merchants started reporting that they were having problems with the EgoPay API returning faulty transaction notifications. By early January users were reporting that funds were ...

Lawyers representing alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht have accused disgraced former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles of being Dread Pirate Roberts, the operator and owner of Silk Road. As we reported January 13th, the defense strategy for Ulbricht, who is facing charges of of conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, conspiring to commit computer hacking and conspiring to ...

Google Glass.  Born 2011 at Google X Lab, Mountain View, California. Died: January 15th, 2015 Mountain View, California.  Glassholes across the world today mourned the passing of Google Glass, Google Inc.’s failed attempt at wearable smart eyewear. First prototyped by Google’s X lab in 2011, the smart eyewear was first tested by “Explorers” who the company ...