Microsoft is said to have acquired Sunrise Atelier Inc., the maker of the Sunrise calendar application for around $100 million. Sunrise offers a suite of calendar products for both mobile and desktop users that connects with and syncs to calendars from Google, iCloud, and Microsoft Exchange, offering an all-in-one hub solution on top of its core calendar offering. The ...

Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht is facing life in prison after being found guilty on all seven charges relating to his establishment, and running of the notorious darknet marketplace. Known online as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Ulbricht was arrested in October 2013 on charges including conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, conspiring to commit computer hacking and conspiring to ...

Uber Inc. has upped the ante in the ridesharing space by offering its Uber Kittens service in Australia for the first time. Uber Kittens, as the name may suggest, allows Uber users to have kittens delivered to their home or workplace for 15 minutes of play time for AU$40 ($31.14.) Available between 12pm to 4pm Thursday ...

When some think of Bitcoin the first things that may come to mind are Silk Road and the illegal trade of drugs on the darknet. Sure, readers of SiliconANGLE will know that the perception doesn’t fit reality, but what if you could legally buy drugs using Bitcoin from a vending machine? Meet the ZaZZZ marijuana vending machine from ...

Cryptocurrency startup NeuCoin has raised a $2.25 million seed round from 20 individual investors including King Digital Entertainment plc co-founder Patrik Stymne, Uber Inc. SVP Emil Michael and Hotwire Inc. president Henrik Kjellberg. Set to launch in March, NeuCoin is offering an micropayment focused altcoin that that will be “easy to use and well marketed,” which the ...

Twitter Inc. has taken a step outside its native tweet stream with news today that the company has started selling advertising on third party sites. The initial launch will see Promoted Tweets appear on sites and apps owned by Flipboard Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, with Twitter hinting that this is just the beginning of a move ...

Eyeo GmbH’s popular Adblock Plus program is in the news today for all the wrong reasons: the company is taking money from advertisers to let their ads be seen by Adblock Plus users. A report from the Financial Times claims that Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others have been paying money to the company to whitelist ...

Samsung Co. Ltd.’s new flagship phone the Galaxy S6 will be launched March 1st, with the company sending out invitations to a press event in Barcelona. The invite includes a curved screen, hinting that Samsung could be possibly using a form factor it has previously used for the Samsung Note Edge. As we reported in December, the ...

Dating app maker Tinder Inc. is said to be preparing to launch its new paid premium service that will include a number of long requested features. The service, named Tinder Plus, will include an undo button that allows users who are having second thoughts to rewind a swipe. Another service called Passport will allow users ...

Google Inc. is reported to be developing its own ridesharing service to take on Uber Inc., a report claimed Monday. Bloomberg quoted unnamed sources that said that Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond revealed the possibility of a Google-made competitor to Uber’s board; Drummond sits on the Uber board so the disclosure was likely a ...