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Pornhub raises interest in market by launching a new dedicated VR category

By Duncan Riley Mar 24, 2016

Porn is credited, rightly or wrongly, with popularizing technologies in years gone by, most famously VHS in their competition with Betamax, and by picking Blue-ray in their battle with HD-DVD, but can they do…

Enterprise goal planning startup BetterWorks takes $20m Series B

By Duncan Riley Mar 23, 2016

Enterprise goal planning firm BetterWorks, Inc. has raised $20 million Series B in a round led by Emergence Capital that included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 8VC, AME Cloud Ventures, Bing Gordon, ff Venture…

Man the torpedoes: Google said to be taking on Periscope, FB Live with new YouTube service

By Duncan Riley Mar 23, 2016

Google, Inc. want’s a slice of the live streaming video market and is said to be building a new service to take on the likes of the Twitter, Inc. owned Periscope and Facebook Live,…

Smartwatch maker Pebble laying off 25% of staff due to VC fundraising shortage

By Duncan Riley Mar 23, 2016

Smartwatch maker Pebble Technology Corp. is laying off 25 percent of its workforce in an attempt to control how much money it spends, according to a report Wednesday. In an interview with Tech Insider,…

Nintendo NX controller allegedly leaked as Nintendo denies Wii U death rumor

By Eric David Mar 23, 2016

Earlier this week, Japanese news publication Nikkei reported that Nintendo Co Ltd would be stopping production of new Wii U consoles later this year, but now Nintendo has denied that claim, saying that it…

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 23: Microsoft adds Tindermint to Azure BaaS, Elliptic raises $5m Series A, Wirex Bitcoin debit card, BitPay block size BIP

By Kyt Dotson Mar 23, 2016

Blockchain technologies expand this week as Microsoft adds Tindermint, a blockchain architecture company, to the company’s Azure cloud Blockchain-as-a-Service product. And Elliptic, a Bitcoin blockchain surveillance and auditing company, raised $5 million in Series…