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, according to multiple reports. VentureBeat claims the new service will be called “YouTube Connect” and will deliver the same functionality as ...

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, Pebble Chief Executive Officer Eric Migicovsky said that the company was laying 40 employees off due to a lack of funds, ...

Supply chain intelligence cloud provider FusionOps, Inc. has today announced that they have added pre-defined prescriptive analytics to their cloud platform The new feature will give enterprise users access to data science-backed recommendations that can be used to optimize inventory in order to reduce operational cost and improve customer service levels. FusionOps says that due ...

Legal tech startup Apperio Ltd. has raised £1.7 million ($2.4 million) in seed funding in a round led by Notion Capital that included NextLaw Labs and IQ Capital. Based in the United Kingdom, Apperio offers a real time, smart-analytics enabled legal fee tracking platform that delivers law firms and businesses real-time transparency on legal fees ...

Bitcoin merchant services provider Coinify ApS has announced a new deal with Hong Kong-based payment service provider iPayDNA International Ltd. to bring advanced Blockchain payment options to merchants in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the deal, iPayDNA’s merchants will now be able to accept 17 Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies (including naturally Bitcoin) from any country in the region ...

A couple in Taiwan has managed to defraud over 1,000 people in a Bitcoin investment scam that was promising large returns. The scam, which was marketed as a high-yield investment program but was more likely a classic Ponzi scheme, was promoted through messaging app LINE and promised a 250 percent return on Bitcoin invested within ...

In a case of it had to happen eventually, streaming now rules the roost in the United States music market with services in the segment surpassing revenue of downloaded music sales for the first time in 2015. According to data released by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) streaming now accounts for 34 percent ...

Business Intelligence startup Domo, Inc. has raised $131 million as an extension of its Series D round of April 2015 from BlackRock and Credit Suisse on the same valuation of $2 billion. The company, founded by former Omniture CEO Josh James in 2010 and long regarded as being in stealth, also announced a new core ...

Google, Inc. wants a bigger slice of the iOS search pie and is going about it a sneaky way by developing a keyboard for iOS devices, according to a report Tuesday. The Verge claims that the search giant has been developing the keyboard for months and that it is “visually distinct” from Google’s Android keyboard. ...

The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new program to explore using peripheral nerve stimulation to enhance learning processes in the brain. If that doesn’t make an awful lot of sense to you, more simply put, DARPA is researching body hacking as a way to improve cognitive learning skills in the ...