US-based payments startup Knox Payments raised $900,000 in funding from Virginia-based angel investors to launch a limited beta version of its service that allows merchants to accept direct payments from their clients' bank accounts.

Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara has sent subpoenas to Mt. Gox, other bitcoin exchanges, and businesses that deal in bitcoin to seek information on how they handled recent cyber attacks, a source familiar with the probe said on Wednesday.

Entrepreneurs’ most frequent complaint is how challenging it is to raise money, especially risk capital; founders in developing countries have even more difficulty since the amounts of venture money for investment in most emerging markets is less vs. the USA.

Spanish flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia, died at the age of 66 while being rushed to a local hospital from a beach in Cancun.

Messenger app for smartphones, WhatsApp, suffers from a series of chain letter hoax after being purchased by social media giant Facebook last February 19.

John Legend's All of Me rose to the top 10 spot on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart after his Grammy performance last January.

Katy Perry's newest single Dark Horse has received more than 50,000 petitions online, asking the removal of the video from YouTube after petitioners claimed that Islam blasphemy was portrayed in one of its scene.

Adidas World Cup T-shirts were pulled out from sale in the US market after Brazilian authorities complained that the country was being linked with sex appeal.

Tesla Motors Inc's shares rose up by 16% last Tuesday and continued to rise at the early premarket trading on Wednesday after an analyst from Wall Street sent out a note to investors.

Didier Drogba, a former Chelsea Club member who now plays for Galatasaray, said that his former said are 10 times better than Galatasaray in Istabul last Wednesday.