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eBay in talks to accept Bitcoin through Braintree

(Updated with comment from Braintree) Slowly but surely, Bitcoin is getting accepted into the mainstream. I mean, it still has Read More

Funding roundup – week ending 8/15/14

Seed stage Beautified, a booking app for last minute hair and beauty appointments, raised $1.2 million in seed from NEA, Manzanita Capital, Carmen Read More

Samsung purchases IoT platform SmartThings

The Internet of Things is about to break out in a big way. Want proof? One of the largest electronics Read More

Banckle Live Chat App for Shopify Store

Banckle.Chat App allows business websites to provide online customer support and live help to their website visitors. Banckle has now Read More

Zelda Williams sparks Twitter to review policies

Like so many of you, I was absolutely gutted earlier this week when I learned about the death of Robin Read More

Yahoo launches rebranded e-commerce platform Stores

In a bid to revamp its e-commerce platform, Yahoo has launched Stores, in order to to help small businesses create their online Read More

Ed-tech platform Desire2Learn raises $85M

If I ever wind up having kids, I'm pretty sure that the school that they go to will look nothing Read More

What’s floating? Om/One levitating bluetooth speaker

First thing first, yes it truly is a levitating Bluetooth speaker. I saw it with my own eyes. It is Read More

Instagram hires new brand exec to ramp up ad efforts

It was all the way back in November of last year that Instagram first began running its first ads to a big, successful Read More

WeChat closes in on WhatsApp with 438M active users

The mobile messaging space is pretty crowded, with services like Facebook Messenger, Tango, WhatsApp, WeChat, Line and Skype all going Read More

Spotify and BandPage partner on merchandise deal

In order to compete against the multitude of different music streaming services out there (and there are a lot of Read More

RealNetworks cuts 10% of staff to focus on the future

It's never an easy thing, but sometimes companies are forced to trim the fat, so to speak. Nobody likes it, obviously, Read More

Yahoo picks up Zofari, a recommendation tool for places

The Internet has perfected the idea of getting the right content in front of you at the right time. It Read More

Personality mining platform Traitify raises $4M

I know a lot of people are a little creeped out by how targeted ads and content have become on Read More

Lyft points finger at Uber for 5,000 cancelled rides

(Updated to include new statement from Uber and Lyft) As the two biggest companies in the relatively new "car on-demand" Read More

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