London, UK-based Video-on-Demand (Vod) service Screenburn raised $500,000 (£302,000) in an angel funding round to fuel its expansion for 2014 and to continue monetizing the presence of music and film artists on Facebook.
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Turkey blocks YouTube amid new government audio file leak
Just over a week after blocking Twitter, Turkey is now moving to shut down access to YouTube in a bid to stem off the source of corruption scandal and reputation-damaging leaks related to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Singaporean Bitcoin payment firm GoCoin pockets $1.4M in first funding round
Singapore-based digital currency payment firm GoCoin pocketed $1.4 million in its first funding round led by former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta and e-commerce site Bitcoin Shop for its sales and tech expansion.
Facebook acquires Oculus VR in $2B deal
Social media giant Facebook acquired California, US-based virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR in a deal valued at $2 billion to help the startup expand beyond non-gaming applications of its technology.
Google plans to develop YouTube for Kids
According to Mashable, Google has intended to develop a YouTube site dedicated for children below 10 years old which could be ideal as more than 6 billion hours of videos are being watched by teens every month on the social media video platform.
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The death of anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps, the man behind "God Hates Fags" placards received an overwhelming response from netizens who were more likely happy with his death than mourn.
Dear Future Mom is a 2 minute clip answering questions from a soon-to-be mother, fearing the kind of life her child would have after knowing the baby has Down syndrome.
Photos of women without any make-up on went viral on social media platforms, supporting the campaign against cancer and getting thousands of donations for Irish Cancer Society.
Granada, Spain-based gifting startup Giftri mines web consumers' Facebook data, including Likes and Interests, to come up with personalized gift recommendations that gift-senders can buy from Amazon.
Palo Alto, US-based late-stage investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) raised $2.23 billion for its eighth growth equity fund from European and Asian private and public pension funds, financial institutions and other investors.
Facebook Secutiry Director Ryan McGeehan annouced that he is leaving in early April to take a security-related position at San Francisco, US-based Bitcoin startup Coinbase.
Clients were dismayed following Ovivo's unannounced shutdown taking the matter to web forums to express the outage, reported BBC News.
New York, US-based social media management startup Percolate landed $24 million in a Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to help companies monitor conversations and create content on social media.
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates thinks that innovation drives progress and doesn't mind the silly endeavors that some companies in Silicon Valley are engaged in because it is from them that important ideas emerge.
