Peter Hamilton, the Chief Executive Officer of HasOffers, has told Facebook that they deserve a second chance after they were removed as a partner for not adhering to the social media firm's data collection and sharing rules, VentureBeat reported.
Legal & Regulatory
JPSML Copthall acquires stake in Indian clothing firm Future Retail
JPSML A/c Copthall Mauritius Investment acquired a 0.6% stake in Mumbai, India-based clothing retail chain Future Retail for INR13.5 crore at INR91.88 apiece on the National Stock Exchange.
Cincinnati startup Nourish wants to give busy people have access to healthy home-cooked meals
Cincinnati, US-based food startup Nourish wants to give people who are too busy, lazy, or tired to cook meals an easy access to healthy home-cooked meals by hiring cooks who will do the task for them for a given fee.
US encourages banks to do business with licensed pot suppliers with new guidelines
The Obama administration has unveiled new guidelines that will encourage lenders to do transactions with state-licensed cannabis shops that are now constrained to doing business only in cash, Reuters reported.
Hedge funds ask Puerto Rico to raise sufficient capital for two years, give up sovereign immunity- sources
Hedge funds planning to participate in the bond offering of Puerto Rico are asking the commonwealth to raise enough capital to last for two years and give up its sovereign immunity, according to sources interviewed by Bloomberg.
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White House officials finally rolled out the Cybersecurity Framework aimed at improving the cybersecurity of public and private critical infrastructure providers so they can better fight against cyber threats, TechCrunch reported.
A massive cyber attack from unknown sources that has been spamming bitcoin exchanges is highlighting some of the dangers people can encounter when they exchange cash for digital currencies like the bitcoin, experts said on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania, US-based age verification startup AgeCheq picked up $1 million in a Series A funding round to ramp up its effort in helping app and game developers comply with federal requirements and standards.
The price of the digital currency bitcoin slid to its lowest level in nearly two months on Monday after bitcoin digital marketplace Mt. Gox said a halt on withdrawals it announced on Friday would continue indefinitely after it detected "unusual activity."
As banks shed off their private equity units to comply with the Volcker Rule, the executives of these newly-independent firms will find themselves doing more travel in their search for new investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.
RichRelevance Chief Executive Officer David Selinger gave three main reasons why the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education or BPPE should not regulate coding academies in his guest post at VentureBeat.
The Central Bank of Russia echoed its statement that the Ruble is the country's official currency, and being a money substitute, Bitcoin is now banned because it is reportedly used in illegal activities.
Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of Galleon Group Founder Raj Rajaratnam, has asked the US District Court in New York to dismiss charges of insider trading filed against him last year, Reuters reported.
Alleged Silk Road operator Ross William Ulbricht will have a November 3 trial date after pleading not guilty in a Manhattan federal court, Bloomberg reported.
