Alas we hardly knew thee, with news this week that the Bitcoin Bowl is no longer after a single outing back in December 2014. The sponsorship deal with BitPay Inc. was supposed to be for three years and saw the St Petersberg Bowl known simply as “The Bitcoin Bowl.” The official line is that parties ...

Online advertising firm Rubicon Project has acquired software as a service (SaaS) programmatic advertising company Chango Inc. for $122 million. According to reports, Rubicon made the acquisition to build its premium ad marketplace through Chango’s intent marketing technology. Founded in 2008, Chango uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant and timely advertising campaigns that ...

Overstock.com, Inc. has invested $5 million into San Jose based Bitcoin technology specialist PeerNova Inc., as part of the second tranche of Series A funding. The company, at least on paper was founded in early 2014, but was the result of a merger of two separate pre-existing companies: cloud mining contractor CloudHashing and ASIC designer HighBitcoin. ...

Facebook Inc. has launched a new feature that allows you to create a scrapbook of tagged photos of your children which is shared with your partner. The new feature is the result of a survey by Facebook of parents using the social network. The results found that 65 percent of respondents said that they tag their ...

Users of the now defunct Darknet marketplace Evolution may be in a spot of bother with news Monday that Reddit has been subpoenaed for details of users who participated on a Subreddit related to the service. Evolution was a popular successor site to notorious drug and illegal goods market Silk Road, but mysteriously disappeared in the ...

Added to the list of “things you can’t make up,” two Federal agents have been arrested on charges that they stole Bitcoin from Silk Road. The agents, named by The New York Times as Carl Mark Force IV, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA,) and Shaun W. Bridges, who worked for the Secret ...

Google Inc.’s Gmail for Android has received a long-desired upgrade with the app now offering a unified inbox, along with a range of additional features. According to the Official Gmail blog, the new unified inbox will allow users to view all their mail at once, regardless of which account it’s from, using the new “All Inboxes” ...

Services such as Apple Inc.’s Siri have for some revolutionized the way they interact with technology, replacing the need to type with voice controls, and users can even hold an basic conversation with the artificial intelligence service. Apparently the feature is particularly popular with children, with the phone in some cases even becoming a toy ...

Git repository hosting service GitHub Inc., has been under a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) since Thursday with China named as the culprit. GitHub said in a blog post that the DDoS attack was the largest in their history and explained that it involves a wide combination of attack vectors. The vectors include methods ...

Enterprise messaging platform provider Slack Technologies Inc. is said to have raised up to $160 million Series E on a $2.76 billion valuation. The round hasn’t been officially confirmed by the company, however The Wall Street Journal reported that new investors have committed $135 million to the round, with Slack having the option to raise another $25 ...