DHI Group, Inc. announced as part of its quarterly earnings report Tuesday that it intends to sell off old-school tech forum Slashdot, and open source applications and software directory SourceForge. The company acquired both properties from Geeknet, Inc. (the company previously known as both VALinux, Inc. and SourceForge, Inc.) for $20 million in 2012, in ...

Vacation home rentals site Tripping.com has raised $16 million Series B in a round led by Steadfast Venture Capital that also included a diverse range of institutional and individual investors including 7 Seas Venture Partners, Enspire Capital, Azure Capital, former Expedia Chief Executive Officer Erik Blachford, Fritz Demopoulos, Monte Koch, Drew Goldman, Brendan Wallace and ...

Amazon.com, Inc. launched a new service Tuesday that offers a disruptive service for hardware startups that provides those companies support to launch, market, and distribute their products, all wrapped with a neat bow of marketing support. Called Amazon Launchpad, the new program delivers a streamlined onboarding experience, complete with custom product pages, a marketing package, ...

U.K.-based premium food delivery service Deliveroo (Roofoods Ltd.) has raised $70 million Series C in a round led Greenoaks Capital and Index Ventures that included previous investors Accel Partners and Hoxton Ventures. Founded in 2012, Deliveroo pitches itself as a technology company that is focused on marketing, selling and delivering restaurant meals to the household ...

Google’s winding down of its mostly unused and unloved social networking platform Google+ took a new step Monday with the company announcing it would stop forcing users to use a Google+ account with Google products, with the first disentanglement being delivered to its YouTube video service. The choice of YouTube being the first Google-owned service ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s latest range of smartphones and phablets now has an official launch date, with the company announcing an “Unpacked” event for Thursday, August 13th. Samsung Unpacked events have traditionally been events held by the company to unveil new products, and a teaser shown with the invite would indicate edges, suggesting that among ...

The famous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, are one step closer to setting up a regulated Bitcoin exchange in New York with the pair filing the paperwork for a Limited Liability Trust company. Described in our previous coverage as a “NASDAQ for Bitcoin,” the Gemini Trust will allow users to legally trade and exchange Bitcoin ...

Former heavyweight world boxing title holder Mike Tyson may be biting off more than a rival’s ear in August with news over the weekend that he is apparently getting into the Bitcoin ATM ring. But an investigation by SiliconANGLE has revealed that Tyson may have been scammed. “Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATM” is said to offer ...

Discount luxury holiday site Secret Escapes Ltd. has raised $60 million Series C in a round led by Google Ventures and Octopus Investments that also included existing investors Index Ventures and Atlas Venture. Founded in 2010, Secret Escapes offers members (it’s free to join) exclusive rates for luxury hand-picked hotels and vacations globally at a claimed ...

Selection bias: the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis such that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed. The art of polling is far from a new one, an established science with precedent and methodology that when applied properly ...