Apple surprised pundits and fanboys alike Thursday by announcing it will be appealing the e-book price-fixing case in the Supreme Court. The original ruling in 2013, subsequently appealed by Apple earlier this year with no success, found that the tech giant had colluded with 5 major publishers to fix the price of e-books to the ...

IBM is embracing the Bitcoin Blockchain by utilizing the technology to power smart contracts. According to The Wall Street Journal Big Blue’s research arm is using the code that powers the Blockchain to create a new derivative system that would be used to create digital contracts that would be recorded publicly and securely on a world-wide ...

Global competition to ride sharing service Uber, Inc. may be set to ratchet up a notch with the company’s main competitors in Asia and North America in talks to form a global alliance. Heavily venture capital funded, and China’s largest taxi hailing app provider Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc.) leads the group with the announcement ...

Global media giant News Corp. has acquired video advertising come “viral video” firm Unruly Media Ltd. for up to $176 million. The purchase price for the acquisition is reported to consist of a cash payment £58 million ($90 million), subject to certain adjustments, and up to £56 million ($86 million) on top in “future consideration ...

Mapping visualization startup Mapsense, Inc. is said to have been acquired by Apple, according to one unconfirmed report Wednesday. Re/Code claims the company was acquired for a figure around $25 million to $30 million, not a bad pay day for a company that was founded in 2013. Based in San Francisco, CA, Mapsense claims to ...

Nine major banks have joined with fintech startup R3CEV LLC (R3) to develop a framework for using Blockchain technology in financial markets. The announcement of the partnership to design and deliver advanced distributed/shared ledger technologies to global financial markets includes some of the biggest names in global banking, including Barclays, BBVA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Baaa! Shaun the Sheep Demonstrating once again the pathetic nature of many “journalists” in not even attempting to confirm a story, various media outlets (including respected ones) reported Tuesday that Facebook was getting a dislike button. While a feature that has been asked for by users of the social networking giant going back years, there’s ...

Would you like to rule the world, Siri? The question may be somewhat facetious, but the underlying infrastructure that currently runs the Apple-owned Siri artificial intelligence (AI) product could soon be powering the Apple cloud with a report Tuesday that the tech giant was looking to unify its various online services under the one platform. Amir ...

Online makeup beauty subscription service Ipsy (Personalized Beauty Discovery, Inc.) has raised $100 million Series B in a round led by TPG Growth and Sherpa Capital. Founded in 2011 by “YouTube star” Michelle Phan, Ipsy offers one product: a $10 per month subscription service called the “Glam Bag,” which provides subscribers with 4-5 samples each ...

Despite some setbacks in terms of what apps it may support, the forthcoming Apple TV received a boost Monday with news that both VLC and Plex will be coming to the new set top box. The developers behind VLC announced that they were working on a tvOS app via a side note in a general ...