Australian Bitcoin mining firm Bitcoin Group Ltd has scrapped its attempt to become the world’s first listed Bitcoin miner, following a liquidity demand from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). The failed listing follows a long list of drama for the company, who originally floated the idea of listing in 2014. Three failed attempts at listing ...

New data published by Google Tuesday has revealed that Android Lollipop is now the most used version of the search giant’s mobile operating system. The stats show the combined share of Lollipop 5.0 and 5.1 (16.9 percent and 19.2 percent respectively) is 36.1 percent in early March, passing the previously most used version, Android KitKat (4.4), at 34.3 ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. has launched a new service that enables private connectivity between Twilio and an enterprise’s on-premise infrastructure and applications. Called Twilio Interconnect, the service allows enterprises deploying communications in the cloud to connect into Twilio’s communications platform while still meeting stringent network requirements for controlling quality and security. Enterprises are now ...

The Central Bank of Bangladesh has claimed it has had $100 million stolen through a hack of its account with the United States Federal Reserve. It’s believed that Chinese hackers were behind the hack and stole the money from the bank’s foreign exchange account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on February 5, ...

Messaging app maker Snapchat, Inc. may have finally turned the business around to the point it’s making decent money, at least according to one report Monday. Re/Code quotes multiple sources familiar with the company’s plans as saying they are targeting between $300 million and $350 million in revenue in 2016, up from $50 million in ...

Trendy blogging platform provider Medium (A Medium Corporation) looks set to finally adopt a business model and bring in much need revenue, after its founder said in an interview they were looking at monetization. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Evan Williams told the BBC in an interview “we’re building monetization into the product right now,” before ...

Christopher “Moot” Poole, the founder of infamous image board 4chan, has popped up at one of the most unlikely places, and that place is Google. Poole said in a blog post he was excited to announce he’d joined Google, before waxing lyrical about how wonderful the company is: When meeting with current and former Googlers, I ...

Live streaming app provider Meerkat, Inc. is soon to be a live streaming provider no longer with the startup having decided to become a video sharing social network instead. The news was disclosed in a note to investors (first discovered by Re/Code but since published by Chief Executive Officer Ben Rubin) where Rubin explained that ...

Email inventor Ray Tomlinson has passed into the eternal computer network in the sky, after a suspected heart attack at the age of 74. An American computer programmer, Tomlinson implemented the first email system on ARPANET, the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP and the primary precursor to the internet; although the concept ...

Streaming music service Spotify AB has introduced a new music recommendation service that taps into social media to find new music. Called “Fresh Finds,” the six new playlists deliver two hours of new music each week based on an analysis of music blogs, news sites, and the songs being listened to by “tastemakers” on Spotify ...