Vivendi SA is reported to have offered $273 million to acquire French video site Dailymotion, the YouTube competitor that itself was acquired by Orange SA back in 2013. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vivendi’s bid for the video site comes after the French Government had expressed opposition to its acquisition (in part or in full) ...

Linux distribution provider CoreOS has raised $20 million Series A in a round led by Google Ventures for $12 million and a follow on from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fuel Capital, and Accel Partners. This comes after an initial $8 million led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. Based ...

Twitter Inc. has finally given users a feature that they’ve long desired by adding the ability embed another tweet (a retweet) and comment on it in full. Previously, when wanting to comment on a retweet, users were limited to commenting in the amount of characters left minus how long the retweet was, and for long ...

Even an Internet search giant apparently can’t make a good investment in Bitcoin with news today that Google Investments backed Buttercoin Inc. is closing its doors April 10th. The startup, which launched to much fanfare just four months ago, announced (offline at the time of writing) that despite claiming that they were 100% secure and ...

Messaging giant LINE Corp. has added to its ever-growing lists of features and add-ons with the official launch of its new dedicated selfie app that offers users 78 filters. The new app, called B612, after an asteroid upon which the character resides in the classic French novella, The Little Prince,  is available for free on iOS ...

In something that won’t come as a surprise to most followers of the Altcoin space, the founders of yet another cryptocurrency have been linked to Ponzi schemes. Dan Anderson and Atif Kamran, the founders of LEOCoin, have been linked to UNAICO Pakistan, an IT Services company that was accused of running a Ponzi scheme by the Securities ...

Global roaming rates are the bane of anyone who travels overseas, but what if you could sign up to a cell provider that didn’t charge you a penny more to use your phone on the road. That’s exactly what Google Inc. is planning on with a report over the weekend that it’s in negotiations to ...

OpenStack hardware startup Nebula Inc. is no more with an announcement Thursday that it had ceased trading. Self-proclaimed as the “world’s first enterprise cloud computer” provider, Nebula offered a product that allowed businesses to easily, securely, and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. The company developed a hardware appliance called Nebula One that allowed any ...

New York based ridesharing startup Via Transport Inc. has raised $27 million Series B in a round led by Pitango Venture Capital that included Expansion Venture Capital, 83North, Ervington Investments and Hearst Ventures. The company provides what it calls “on-demand transit” within a small area of the Manhattan borough of New York, including the Upper ...

LinkedIn Inc. has acquired predictive insights app maker Refresh Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, Refresh offers an iOS app that gives users the “right insights about the people you’re about to meet.” If that makes no sense, you won’t be alone, but the easier way of describing it is that the app gives ...