Big Data mobile gaming startup Icejam Games, Inc. has raised CAD$3 million ($2.13 million) Series A in a round led by Build Ventures. Founded in 2014, Icejam integrates real-world “Playable Data” into its games through utilizing any dataset or combination of datasets, whether live or historical, global or personal such as data generated by on-device ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. continues to bring in the big dollars, with the company reporting new record highs in both the fourth quarter and 2015 as a whole. Revenue at Facebook topped $5.84 billion in the fourth quarter, up just shy of $2 billion from the $3.85 billion it made in the same period ...

Deep linking startup Branch Metrics, Inc. has raised $35 million Series B in a round led by Founders Fund that included New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pejman Mar Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Zach Coelius, Ben Narasin, and Madrona Venture Group. Founded in 2014, Branch offers a deep linking and business analytics platform for mobile app developers that ...

New research from cyber security firm ThreatTrack Security has found that enterprises are losing ground when it comes to defending themselves from advanced persistent threats (APTs). The research, which involved a blind survey of 200 security professionals dealing with malware analysis, found that 80 percent of those surveyed report that defending their networks has become ...

Car insurance comparison platform startup The Zebra (Insurance Zebra, Inc.) has raised $17 million Series A in a round that included Mark Cuban, Mike Maples Jr., Simon Nixon, Silverton Partners, Daher Capital and Ballast Point Ventures. Founded in 2012, The Zebra aims to simplify car insurance by allowing drivers to anonymously compare dozens of insurance ...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) workplace training startup Grovo, Inc. has raised $40 million Series C in a round led by Accel Partners that included Costanoa Venture Capital, SoftTech VC, Greg Waldorf, and Vayner Capital. Founded in 2010, Grovo describes itself as “reinventing learning for the modern workforce” with a next-generation learning solution that combines technology, engaging microlearning ...

Apple broke its own quarterly records once again in the last quarter of 2015, but this may be the last record quarter for the technology giant as iPhone sales begin to slow. For the quarter ending December 26, 2015, Apple made a record $75.9 billion in revenue on income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per ...

Bitcoin exchange Bitcoin Vietnam Co. Ltd. and Bitcoin merchant services provider Coinify ApS have announced a new deal that will see Coinify’s Blockchain powered merchant processing tools deployed in the Vietnamese market. Under the deal Vietnamese merchants will now be able to receive payments for goods in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies supported by Coinify. The ...

Advertising on the Facebook-owned photo sharing app Instagram is going gangbusters, according to new data. Marketing software company Brand Networks, LLC, an advertising partner for the app, has revealed in a report (pdf) that since Facebook launched its Instagram advertising API mid last year, the number of ads served through its platform displayed in the ...

Despite the failure of its Fire phone, Amazon.com, Inc. still wants a slice of the phone market and is attempting to get Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to deeply integrate its services into handsets. According to The Information (subscription only), Amazon has discussed working with phone brands at a “factory level” to integrate its services with ...