San Francisco, US-based online real-time restaurant reservation service OpenTable launched a private beta of its dining payments service for 11 restaurants in San Francisco, with new restaurants to be added soon.
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Bitcoin value plunges 20pct after Mt Gox pauses trading
The value of digital currency Bitcoin plunged 21% to $619 from $783 after Tokyo, Japan-based exchange paused its trading because of an increase in withdrawal requests.
Security researcher exposes Snapchat weakness that could crash phone
Security researcher Jamie Sanches has discovered and exposed a weakness within California-US-based photo messaging app Snapchat that could allow hackers to freeze and crash a user's phone.
Indian optimization software startup IntelloCut secures $200K in funding
Noida, India-based optimization software startup IntelloCut secured $200,000 (INR1.3 crore) in funding from a group of investors led by Blume Ventures and Google India's Ranjan Anandan.
French cloud storage service HubiC offers 10TB for $13.50 per month
France-based cloud storage service HubiC now has an updated product offering that consists of a 25GB free storage, 100GB for $1.35 (€1) every month, and 10TB for a $13.50 (€10) monthly fee.
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Moscow, Russia-based investment fund Flint Capital and government-backed early-stage fund FRII poured an undisclosed amount into St Petersburg-based photo manipulation detecting startup SMTDO Tech LTD.
Facebook is scrambling to fix a mobile security glitch discovered this week by MyPermissions chief Olivier Amar which involves the inability to remove apps that were previously downloaded.
Barcelona, Spain-based startup Voz.io raised $150,000 in a seed funding round from Kima Ventures for the development of its browser-based call center business and user acquisition strategies.
India-based music streaming service Gaana.com added independent music portal Musicfellas.com for an undisclosed amount, with the latter's site to be shut down and its catalogue to be moved to Gaana.
Fidelity Worldwide Investment's Head of Asian Fixed Income Sabita Prakash has left the firm, according to a source interviewed by Reuters and confirmed by a company spokesman.
Kolkata, India-based public sector enterprise Balmer Lawrie & Co Ltd bought Mumbai-based travel venture Vacations Exotica including its employees and customers from Vacations Exotica Destinations Pvt Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
A £28 million funding was given by the National Institute for Health Research or NIHR and its 50 partners to a health research initiative focused on the East Midlands.
Stockholm, Sweden-based mobile phone community Truecaller grabbed $18.8 million in a Series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital to help identify unknown phone callers and block spam calls.
Preliminary approval was given by the State of Maine Senate to LD 1512 which allows even residents that earn modest income to back potentially high-growth domestic startups, PressHerald.com reported.
