Chinese hackers have breached the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and obtained the records of over 4 million present and present employees, officials said Thursday. The agency, which handles government security clearances and federal employee records, detected the breach in April following the implementation of an “updated cyber security posture.” OPM said in a statement ...

Harvard-based Big Data and analytics consulting marketplace Experfy, Inc. has raised a seed round of $1.5 million. Investors included XPRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis, Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna; Intrado President George Heinrichs; Former Chief Innovation Officer of the Agency for International Development Maura O’Neill; Former president of Singularity University Neil Jacobstein; Thomson ...

Messaging giant LINE Corp. has launched a new app called Popcorn Buzz, a teleconferencing app that allows users to talk to up to 200 people at the same time. Described by the company as a “a revolutionary free group call app that allows up to 200 participants to simultaneously converse” the app offers powerful group ...

Bitcoin Blockchain financial platform startup Mirror (Vaurum Labs, Inc.) has raised $8.8 million Series A in a round led by Route 66 that included existing investors Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, RRE Ventures, and Tim Draper. As part of the deal, Route 66 partner Pascal Bouvier will join Mirror’s board of directors. Originally founded as a Bitcoin ...

The National Football League’s (NFL) first free, legally live streamed regular season game is coming, and much to delight of some, and the horror of others, it is being presented by Yahoo!, Inc. In a statement released Wednesday, Yahoo confirmed that it would stream NFL’s International Series game in London, between the Buffalo Bills and ...

Online pharmacy startup PillPack, Inc. has raised $50 million Series C in a round led by CRV that also included Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures. Founded in 2013, PillPack aims to take on pharmacy giants such as The Walgreen Co. by offering home-delivered customized prescription medication, along with vitamins and non-prescription ...

Pinterest, Inc. is heading into the e-commerce market with an announcement Tuesday that it was introducing the ability for users to buy items pinned in their social sharing site. The “buyable pins” complete with “buy it” button, which is shown in blue to make it stand out from Pinterest’s standard red features, allows users to ...

Google, Inc. backed augmented reality startup Magic Leap, Inc. is set to open up its platform for external developers. The company announced at the MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital conference Tuesday that it wants game developers, filmmakers, and other media creators to build augmented reality experiences using its software development kit (SDK.) Magic Leap added that the SDK ...

Do you like to post food pictures to Instagram? keen on artificial intelligence? worried about your waist line? then Google, Inc.’s new project might be for you. Demoed at Boston’s Rework Deep Learning Summit last week, Im2Calorie is reported to analyse food photographs on Instagram for their calorie count. According to Popular Science, the platform is more than ...

Apple’s forthcoming music streaming service may well take on Spotify AB in more ways than one, including curated channels complete with celebrity disk jockeys. According to a report Monday, the new service, as yet officially named, will be offered for $10 a month, but will not offer an unlimited, ad-supported version as Spotify does. There will ...