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vBulletin Solutions, Inc. has issued an urgent reset of the passwords for its over 300,000 accounts following a breach by hackers that exposed the IDs of hundreds of thousands of users. The hacker who claimed responsibility for the hack used a zero-day …
Facebook defies market predictions again with record Q3 financials
Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. has once again defied market predictions hitting a new record high in the third quarter. Revenue at Facebook was up 41 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $4.5 billion with net profit rising …
Design-as-a-Service: Online interior design service Havenly raises $7.5m Series A
Online interior design service Havenly, Inc. has raised $7.5 million Series A in a round led by the Foundry Group that included participation from other private investors that were not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Havenly offers an online interior design service that …
As Bitcoin passes through $400, what exactly is behind the surge?
The price of Bitcoin has surged to over $400 for the first time since November 2014, but what exactly is behind the surge? There are multiple possibilities, perhaps with all of them operating together, but the simple answer is that no one …
Australian fintech app maker Invoice2go raises $15m Series C
Fintech invoicing app maker Invoice2go, Inc. has raised $15 million Series C in a round led by Ribbit Capital that included existing investor Accel Partners. Founded in Australia in 2002 (but now with a main office in Redwood City, CA) Invoice2go offers …
Intel Capital invests $22m into 10 startups covering comms, IoT, power storage and more
Intel’s venture capital arm Intel Capital has announced it has invested $22 million into 10 startups as part of its push to invest more than $500 million in technology companies this year. The list of companies, announced at the Intel Capital Global …
Twitter dumps favorites for hearts/likes in another desperate ploy to gain new users
Twitter, Inc. announced another desperate ploy to make their service more appealing Tuesday by replacing the ability to favorite a tweet with an option to like a tweet (“heart it”) instead. The company justified the decision in a blog post, with Product …
Disruptive lawyer-matching startup Lexoo raises $1.3m
Lawyer-matching startup Lexoo Ltd. has raised $1.3 million in a round led by Forward Partners and individual investors Jonathan McKay (chairman of Just Giving), Duncan Jennings (founder of Vouchercodes), Tim Jackson (Lean Investments), Robin Grant (founder of We Are Social) and the …
Smart Singapore fintech app maker Call Levels raises $500k from 500 Startups
Singapore-based fintech app maker Call Levels Pte. Ltd. has raised pre-series A of $500,000 in a round led by 500 Startups that included financial market veterans Timothy Teo (ex-GIC and JP Morgan), Gracelyn Ho (ex-Morgan Stanley) and Koh Boon Hwee. Founded in …
Doth protest too much: Google officially denies ChromeOS/ Android merger
Google has gone public to deny a report from last week that it is currently working on merging its ChromeOS operating system into Android. The original report claimed that ChromeOS will be folded into Android as the latter has become by far …