US bitcoin futures start trading on CBOE, a week ahead of futures rollout at rival CME Group; bitcoin's price climbed ~8% in first seven minutes of trading
Exchange provider's website experienced outages from heavy traffic — The first bitcoin futures started trading Sunday …
An unofficial, knockoff version of the MyEtherWallet digital wallet app became the third most popular in the paid finance category in the iOS App Store
Dec 11, 2017, 8:11 amDec 11, 2017, 2:58 pm — An app masquerading as MyEtherWallet.com, one of the internet's most popular services …
Internet pioneers and other tech luminaries including Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and Steve Wozniak ask the FCC to cancel its vote repealing Net Neutrality
A group of early internet and computing pioneers have called on the Senate's FCC oversight committee to censure next week's net neutrality vote.
Microsoft releases quantum computing development kit preview, including the Q# programming language, compiler, and simulator
Software giant releases a quantum programming language and simulator, but still has no working computer — In the race to commercialize a new type of powerful computer …
Facebook appears to have quietly killed its Ticker feature, which displayed a real-time feed of friends' activity
As Facebook continues to tinker with its layout and services to spur more interactions and engagement, it seems that not even the most well-known or oldest features are spared.
Apple confirms it will buy Shazam music-recognition app
“We are thrilled that Shazam and its talented team will be joining Apple,” Apple said on Monday.
How a 2001 retreat in Snowbird, Utah led to the Agile Manifesto and Agile software development practices widely used across the industry
Snowbird, Utah, is an unlikely place to mount a software revolution. Around 25 miles outside Salt Lake City, Snowbird is certainly no Silicon Valley … Tweets: @mimbsy Tweets: Caroline Mimbs Nyce / @m...
New York-based luxury fashion e-tailer Moda Operandi raises $165M for international expansion, bringing the total raised to $300M+
Luxury online fashion retailer Moda Operandi has raised $165 million in growth capital as it increases its footprint in sought-after Middle Eastern …
Profile of Uber's chief brand officer, Bozoma Saint John, as she tries to restore the company's tarnished image
At a company full of challenging jobs, Bozoma Saint John surely has one of the toughest. As chief brand officer at Uber, her task is to try to get people to love a business …
Menlo Security, which blocks malware using its cloud-based isolation platform, raises $40M Series C
Cybersecurity startup Menlo Security has closed a $40 million series C round of funding from American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, General Catalyst …
Profile of non-profit Fight for the Future, which helped to kill SOPA, pass net neutrality rules, and now leads a fight against FCC's plan to repeal those rules
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A look at how self-driving vehicles, including cars and trucks, may positively affect the economy by creating new jobs and opportunities
Millions of people drive for a living; autonomous technology could make their work obsolete — Millions of people drive for a living; autonomous technology could make their work obsolete Tweets: @ben...
Naspers, Innova Capital invest $82M more into Movile for its Latin American food delivery business, iFood, bringing total raised by Movile to $250M+
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Blockchain startup Circle's subsidiary CENTRE raises $20M in an ICO under SAFT framework for a platform that aims to connect digital wallets like Alipay, Venmo
A subsidiary of blockchain startup Circle created to build an ethereum payments network has raised $20 million in a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) sale.
With some research saying that permanently baked-in host-read podcast ads are 3.5X more effective, dynamically inserted third party ads have trouble catching on
Max Willens / Digiday : Tweets: @digiday , @digiday , and @ideafaktory See also Mediagazer Tweets: @digiday : In November, HowStuffWorks dumped the third-party ads in its podcasts. Instead, the compa...
Sources: Alibaba to buy 30% of India's online grocer BigBasket for $300M, with $80M of the investment used to buy shares from existing shareholders
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German startup Idagio raises €8M Series A for its paid classical music streaming service, which currently lists about 140,000 recordings
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