­­Online interior design service Havenly, Inc. has raised $7.5 million Series A in a round led by the Foundry Group that included participation from other private investors that were not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Havenly offers an online interior design service that matches users with designers to curate any room for a flat fee starting ...

The price of Bitcoin has surged to over $400 for the first time since November 2014, but what exactly is behind the surge? There are multiple possibilities, perhaps with all of them operating together, but the simple answer is that no one knows for sure exactly why after a year in the relative doldrums the ...

Fintech invoicing app maker Invoice2go, Inc. has raised $15 million Series C in a round led by Ribbit Capital that included existing investor Accel Partners. Founded in Australia in 2002 (but now with a main office in Redwood City, CA) Invoice2go offers a mobile app that assists small businesses to manage cash flow through easy-to-use ...

Intel’s venture capital arm Intel Capital has announced it has invested $22 million into 10 startups as part of its push to invest more than $500 million in technology companies this year. The list of companies, announced at the Intel Capital Global Summit Tuesday, cover a range of startups operating in spaces including new communications, ...

Twitter, Inc. announced another desperate ploy to make their service more appealing Tuesday by replacing the ability to favorite a tweet with an option to like a tweet (“heart it”) instead. The company justified the decision in a blog post, with Product Manager Akarshan Kumar claiming that the move was to make Twitter “easier and ...

Lawyer-matching startup Lexoo Ltd. has raised $1.3 million in a round led by Forward Partners and individual investors Jonathan McKay (chairman of Just Giving), Duncan Jennings (founder of Vouchercodes), Tim Jackson (Lean Investments), Robin Grant (founder of We Are Social) and the London Co-Investment Fund. Founded in 2014, Lexoo is attempting to disrupt the legal ...

Singapore-based fintech app maker Call Levels Pte. Ltd. has raised pre-series A of $500,000 in a round led by 500 Startups that included financial market veterans Timothy Teo (ex-GIC and JP Morgan), Gracelyn Ho (ex-Morgan Stanley) and Koh Boon Hwee. Founded in 2014, Call Levels offers a real-time financial monitoring and alert service designed to ...

Google has gone public to deny a report from last week that it is currently working on merging its ChromeOS operating system into Android. The original report claimed that ChromeOS will be folded into Android as the latter has become by far the more dominant operating system while ChromeOS has remained a bit player at ...

Mega games company Activision Blizzard, Inc. has acquired Candy Crush Saga maker King Digital Entertainment PLC for a cool $5.9 billion. According to The Financial Times, the acquisition is the biggest takeover of a UK-based tech company since HP acquired Autonomy for $11 billion four years ago. The deal is said to give the combined ...

If an offer is too good to be true it usually is, and in the case of a new Bitcoin offering it screams scam from the rooftops. Called Miners Center, the site offers to buy Bitcoin at a 10 percent premium as part of the push the company describes as acquiring enough Bitcoin in reserve ...