A long time ago in a far less cashed up Silicon Valley than it is today, a crazy guy decided to live stream his life on the internet for all to see, and then sold the company that resulted from that to Amazon.com, Inc. for $970 million. OK, so we skipped some of the story ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has acquired European digital full-service agency Ecx.io, their third creative agency acquisition in a week. Founded in 1995, Ecx.io provides services necessary to implement successful digital projects including strategic consulting, creative implementation, technical implementation, service, and maintenance. The company claims to be one of Europe’s leading agencies with offices in ...

Cisco Systems, Inc. has announced that they intend to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider Jasper Technologies, Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, plus additional retention-based incentives. Founded in 2004, Jasper’s cloud-based platform facilitates the launch, management, and monetization of IoT deployments. The company’s turnkey SaaS Control ...

Australian Bitcoin mining firm Bitcoin Group Ltd.’s initial public offering (IPO) hasn’t been the success the company had hoped with a bookbuild for the float managing to raise only 30 percent of the funds they were seeking. Bitcoin Group were looking to raise AU$20 million ($14 million) in an IPO offering of 100 million new ...

New research from cybersecurity firm Rapid7, Inc. has discovered that two popular devices aimed at children have shipped with security vulnerabilities that would allow the devices to be accessed by nefarious third parties. The research found that both the Fischer-Price Smart Toy and hereO GPS had an issue with the platform’s web service (API) authorization. In ...

In what could be one of the more interesting buys in recent times, Microsoft Corp. is reported to have acquired SwiftKey (TouchType Ltd.) the maker of a predictive keyboard for iOS and Android devices. The Financial Times quotes the proverbial “people familiar with the deal” as saying the price of the acquisition was around $250 ...

New releases across Apple, Inc.’s range of devices could be coming sooner than expected with a report Tuesday that a launch event is currently scheduled for March 15. 9to5mac claims that the event will see Apple launch a new 4-inch the iPhone, a new iPad Air 3, and new Apple Watch band. Rumors of a ...

Proving the old saying that “some people never learn”, the former Secret Service agent who was arrested for stealing Bitcoin during the investigation into notorious dark web marketplace Silk Road has been re-arrested following an apparent attempt to flee the country. Agent Shaun W. Bridges, who had previously spent time as a member of the ...

Bitcoin exchange Kraken (Payward, Inc.) has announced a new investment from leading Japanese venture capital firm SBI Investment. The amount of the investment was not disclosed and was only named as “multi-million”, and will form part of a Series B round Kraken is currently raising. SBI Investments’ parent company the SBI Holding has interests in ...

Not only will Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. be launching its new flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones in Barcelona later this month, they will also be launching a new 360 degree virtual reality (VR) camera, at least according to one report Monday. SamMobile claims exclusively that the South Korean chaebol will be launching the ...