Ashley Madison hacking update: Victims experience hate crimes, extortion, and suicide
Hacks against Ashley Madison have rippled to various crimes directed towards the victims who were the users. The crimes ranged from extortion attempts to something as serious as suicides.
Aug 25, 2015 11:43 PM EDT
ZeroCater soars $100M sales starting from only $7,000
ZeroCater, a startup business servicing meals to large companies had earned $100M with $1.5M funding. Arram Sabeti, the owner started out his business with just $7000.
Ashley Madison victims now being blackmailed
First the Ashley Madison hacking and now the extortion follows. Recall that there were more than 30 million profiles that were included in the data dump of the so-called cheating website.
Airbnb for Business now has over 1,000 corporate signups
Over 1000 businesses signed up for Airbnb’s new website “Airbnb for business,” which makes it easier and more convenient for travelling business people to find the right place to stay during their travel.
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Lettuce as a "Miracle" sugar substitute and other biotech startup projects
More and more research had been conducted to find a substitute for a certain substance or food additive like the sweetener. Recently, lettuce has been a good candidate for producing miraculin, chosen by Alan Perlstein and his team making sure that it is not going to be a GMO.
Aug 24, 2015 3:13 AM EDT
Chicago catching up fast as next Silicon Valley hub
Chicago is emerging as next potential city for future Silicon Valley tech hub as it leaves other citities behind with advantages such as young educated population, affordable real estate, presence of global IT companies, availability of VC funding and other social parameters.
Aug 24, 2015 2:27 AM EDT
Google's Life Sciences will now be a standalone company under Alphabet, after being Owned by Google X
Google’s Life Science team has graduated to a standalone entity, which will be under Alphabet after being under Google X.
Aug 24, 2015 2:21 AM EDT
Spotify says sorry over new private policy
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says sorry in Spotify blog regarding the unfair privacy policy the music streaming app is applying. Reports say Spotify obtains personal information and sends it to advertisers.
Aug 24, 2015 1:56 AM EDT
Samsung wants iPhone users to sell their loyalty for $1 only
Now you have the chance to try one of Samsung's latest innovative smartphones, for a $1 within 30 days, that is, if you are an iPhone user. This so-called Ultimate Test Drive will test your loyalty to iPhone especially if you don't have to handle over your iPhone while using your choice of the Samsung smartphone at the same time.
Aug 24, 2015 1:47 AM EDT
Maxymiser acquisition to fortify Oracle Marketing Cloud
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Maxymiser. The latest buyout will help Oracle further strengthen its Oracle Marketing Cloud.
Aug 24, 2015 1:44 AM EDT
Intuit plans to let go of its businesses including Quicken
Intuit plans to let go of its businesses including QuickBase, Demandforce and Quicken. Intuit announced its most recent quarterly report and surprised everyone when it said that it will sell Quicken, Demandforce and QuickBase but will keep TurboTax and other products.
Aug 24, 2015 1:42 AM EDT
Elon Musk's Hyperloop starts construction in 2016; Oerlikon Leybold and Aecom joined in
Elon Musk's vision of Hyperloop is finally shaping up as Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and Aecom funded HTT to construct the high-speed capsule transportation in 2016.
Aug 24, 2015 1:41 AM EDT
Facebook edges out Google as a traffic source for news
Facebook has become the top traffic source for news, edging out search giant Google. According to traffic analytics firm Parse.ly, this is due to Facebook's growing popularity as a platform for discourse around news and information.
Aug 23, 2015 11:59 PM EDT
LinkedIn's Newest App Helps you Learn more about your Co-Workers
LinkedIn launched Wednesday its new app Lookup, which helps employees connect with the right co-workers to be more productive.
Aug 23, 2015 11:56 PM EDT
Bitcoin's future is threatened by rival, under 'hard fork' crisis
A hard fork is the crisis that divides Bitcoin developers these days. Does it really affect the future of this promising currency? OR is it a healthy transition?
Aug 23, 2015 11:53 PM EDT
HP’s Planned Layoffs to Exceed 55,000
HP CFO reveals that layoffs will exceed an additional 5 percent of the planned 55,000 layoffs by October.
Aug 23, 2015 11:26 PM EDT