The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has launched a Bitcoin index that provides the price of Bitcoin as part of its Global Index Feed. Called NYXBT, the index will provide the price of one Bitcoin to the United States dollar as it is valued daily at 4 p.m. GMT. “Bitcoin values are quickly becoming a data point ...

Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress, has acquired WooCommerce, a WordPress related startup that sells WordPress e-commerce tools and themes. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed but was reported by Re/Code as being “more than $30 million” in a combination of cash and stock. Founded in Cape Town, South Africa in 2008 initially as WooThemes, ...

Twitter Inc. and Google Inc. have come to a new agreement that will see live tweets featured prominently in Google’s search results for the first time since their previous partnership ended in 2011. Under the deal announced on the Official Twitter blog, as of now users in the United States searching Google in English will ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. raised the bar today in the software as a service (SaaS) comms space by announcing not one, but eight new products. Twilio offers an API that enables developers to deploy voice, VoIP and SMS apps via simple code, with the new offerings built on top of this. Top of the ...

Two child and consumer advocacy groups have made an official complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Google’s YouTube Kids application has been showing kids content they believe is inappropriate. The app, launched with fanfare back in February, offers primarily a curated variety of videos that are supposed to be safe for small ...

The cloud service price war heated up Monday with Google announcing price cuts of up to 30 percent for its Infrastructure-as-a-Service product Compute Engine, along with a new virtual machine (VM) instance that promises to save companies even more money. In a post to the Google Cloud Platform Blog, Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure claimed ...

Fraud protection startup Feedzai Inc. has raised $17.5 million Series B in a round led by Oak HC/FT  that included existing investors Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and Espirito Santo Ventures. As part of the deal Oak HC/FT General Partner Patricia Kemp and Venture Partner Jonathan Weiner will join Feedzai in board of director roles. ...

A regional court has given cheer to the Bitcoin community in Russia with a decision to lift a court-ordered ban on Bitcoin related websites, however, the ban may not yet be lifted by the Russian Federal Government. The ban, put in place by the Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor in January based on a decision by a court in Nevyansk, saw a ...

Is Google Inc., trying to strangle the viability of developers creating apps for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone by cutting back their ad returns? That what at least some Windows Phone developers believe, with reports over the weekend that ads returns from Google’s AdMob mobile advertising service plummeted off a cliff following the announcement at Microsoft’s ...

The Blockchain, best known as the ledger technology underlying Bitcoin transactions, is now being considered for other uses, and in one Central American country it’s about to be used for something completely new: land title tracking. The Government of Honduras announced last week a deal with Texas-based Blockchain company Factom Inc. that will see the country implement ...