Bitcoin startup BitX has raised an undisclosed new round of funding from South East Asia investment fund Venturra Capital. “It’s a substantial amount and what we believe to be the first substantial investment from a Southeast Asian VC into a Bitcoin company,” BitX Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder Marcus Swanepoel told Tech In Asia. Founded in ...

Enterprise security firm Blue Coat Systems, Inc. may be returning to public equity markets in 2016 with a report that the company is considering an Initial Public Offering (IPO). According to Bloomberg Business, the company, acquired by Bain Capital for $2.4 billion in March, is taking pitches from investment banks for an IPO that could ...

As competition for hiring top talent continues to heat up as the great tech bubble continues to go on its merry way, will Microsoft continue its dominance in the enterprise desktop market as new hires demand access to Apple machines instead? The answer is yes, but its share will continue to decline in 2016, at least ...

Bitcoin to Amazon person-to-person (P2P) service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has raised $1 million in a seed round from Digital Currency Group. Founded in 2014, Purse.io offers a service that acquires unwanted Amazon gift cards and certificates and then sells them to users for Bitcoin; a credit is placed in the user’s account that is ...

A former U.S. Secret Service agent has been jailed for 71 months after being found guilty of stealing Bitcoin during the federal investigation into the now defunct Darknet marketplace Silk Road. Agent Shaun W. Bridges, who had previously spent time as a member of the President’s security detail, was arrested in April along with Drug ...

Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. has confirmed that it raised $1.5 billion in private equity funding earlier this year via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The Wall Street Journal first broke the news of the round back in late July after rumors of a new round emerged earlier that same month, but ...

2015 has been a horror year on the security front, with a long list of high-profile corporations and even the Internal Revenue Service finding themselves at the mercy of a variety of bad actors. The question for the year ahead is will the enterprise security landscape see an improvement as security tools continue to evolve ...

Various industry bodies over the years have tried all sorts of scare tactics in relation to piracy, up to and including taking people to court, but what if your pirated item ended up stealing Bitcoin? That’s exactly what happened to one Reddit user who had downloaded a pirated copy of hit game Fallout 4 in ...

IT auditing software company Netwrix Corp. has released the results of its 2015 Cloud Security Survey, showing that 65 percent of companies are concerned with security when migrating to the cloud and 40 percent are concerned with the loss of physical control over data once it gets there. The survey of 600 IT professionals worldwide, who ...

Google, Inc. has released its annual Google Play Best of 2015 list, and while there were some surprises, the list saw a number of old favorites continue to dominate. The list, which includes Best Games of 2015 and Best Apps of 2015, includes approximately 50 selections from the year that was and were based on ...