Some 27 months after Facebook forced users to use its dedicated chat app if they wanted to chat privately with other users, Facebook’s Messenger has passed the 1 billion active users mark. Significantly, the 1 billion number is up 200 million from the 800 million users Facebook reported in January. In an announcement post, Facebook ...

Popular BitTorrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) is no longer, following the arrest of its alleged founder and seizure of its domains by the United States Government. Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, was arrested in Poland on behalf of U.S. authorities on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to ...

Twitter, Inc.’s plans to turn itself into a sports live-streaming service has received a boost, with news Tuesday that it has signed an original content deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA). The deal, which will include live programming and video to Twitter-owned properties Vine and Periscope as well as Twitter itself, will comprise of two ...

Former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for hacking accounts at rival Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Houston Astros. Correa, who was fired in July 2015 after the hacking scandal was first revealed, was also ordered to pay $279,038 in restitution. In his initial defense, ...

Stealth WiFi and customer loyalty startup Zenreach, Inc. has raised $30 million Series B in a round led by Founders Fund that included previous investors Formation 8, Bain Capital Ventures and First Round Capital. As part of the deal, legendary investor and Gawker Media-slaying hero Peter Thiel will be joining the board. Founded in 2013 ...

Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. is opening up its verified account process by allowing anyone to apply for a blue checkmark next to their name, a mark that identifies (as the name may suggest) that the account holder is indeed who they say they are. Twitter first introduced verified accounts in 2009 as a ...

A company by the name of EtherIndex LLC has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an exchange traded fund (ETF) based on ether, the up and coming bitcoin competitor that runs on the Ethereum network. The filing marks the first time a company has attempted to list an ETF based ...

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these last two weeks you’d know that app and gaming history has been made with the unprecedented craze that is the augmented reality game Pokemon GO. The game, in which players collect then fight Pokemon characters in the real world, has already seen a backlash (Pokemon Go backlash), ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has launched a new platform that allows companies to test blockchain technology in their supply chains. The new service utilizes the company’s LinuxOne system and allows supply chain customers to build and test blockchains in a secure cloud; the service is being pitched to companies that need to track high-value ...

Yahoo, Inc.’s likely last financial report as an independent listed company unsurprisingly missed market expectations Monday as the once great internet company continued its fall from grace. For the second quarter of 2016, Yahoo reported revenue of $1.3 billion, surprisingly up 5 percent of the same period in 2015, however, revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs ...