Predictive marketing startup Yieldify Ltd. has raised $11.5 million Series A in a round that included Google Ventures and Softbank Capital. Founded in 2013, Yieldify’s predictive marketing technology and fully managed service tackles the problem of abandoned shopping carts on sites selling online, where some 70 percent of people don’t complete transactions, by delivering the ...

Deep technology online investing platform Propel(x), Inc. has launched a new crowdsourced Diligence Insights platform for investors. Claimed to be the first of its type, the new platform sources expert insights to better equip angel investors in making more informed investments. The site itself only offers investments in companies founded on a scientific discovery or ...

Healthcare group messaging app provider Cureatr, Inc. has raised $13 million Series B in a round led by Deerfield Investments that included new investors Cerner Capital and Windham Ventures, along with previous investors Cardinal Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, and JMI Services. Founded in 2011, Cureatr offers messaging services for doctors, care organizations, hospitals and health ...

Bitcoin trading platform Quoine Pte. Ltd. has signed a new deal with Econtext Asia Ltd. that will see Bitcoin being available as an option for payments at 20,000 Japanese retailers for the first time. The arrangement provides Bitcoin payments through Econtext’s existing merchant network throughout Japan, and although initially Bitcoin payments will only be available ...

End-to-end Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) service provider Aeris Communcations, Inc. has today launched AerVoyance, a new M2M and IoT analytics service. The new service is said to provide customers with significant advantages in managing their connected device programs, catering for the need to make sense of the enormous amount of data continuously ...

Circa 1605, Inc., the makers of the Circa News application, have ceased trading after failing to find a buyer for the site. The site went on the market in April after the company failed to raise a new round of funding to keep it going. Despite suggestions of several potential buyers at the time, none ...

Do you like playing Minecraft and wouldn’t mind earning some Bitcoin along the way? OK, so that’s not something many would have pondered before, but now you actually can, with prominent Minecraft server PlayMC now offering that very feature. The service, dubbed by the company as its “Bitconomy,” allows players to earn Bits, a domination ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are investigating notorious hacking group FIN4 over allegations that they have been using hacked information to profit from share trading. To make matters even more interesting, Reuters quotes “people familiar with the matter“ as saying that the SEC has approached at least eight listed companies to provide details of ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. is said to be raising $500 million Series I on a $20 billion valuation. According to reports, the new round of funding apparently reflects investors’ eagerness to gain access to a startup seen as one of the most successful in the world, although many probably haven’t even heard ...

“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” Robert H Jackson, famed jurist and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A funny thing is happening in the second decade in the 21st ...