The UK government is now listing down charities, educational, and other random websites wrongly blocked by Internet service providers when web filters designed to block porn came into full effect.

San Francisco, California-bases mobile betting startup YouBetMe is launching an app that helps keep track of casual bets, and is planning to raise Series A funding in the near future.

Bangalore, India-based online fashion retailer Myntra raised $50 million in funding as it got approached by e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart as the round closed.

San Jose, California-based digital video recording (DVR) company TiVo announced that it will add Durham, North Carolina-based cloud-based content discovery service Digitalsmiths for an undisclosed amount.

European real estate asset manager SEB Asset Management bought ten-storey office and commercial structure Primegate, which is valued at JPY 5.5 billion (around €39 million).

Starting February 27, London-based co-working space Rainmaking Loft will be opening 80 desks within a 1,000-square-meter office space in Berlin to provide startups with links between the Berlin and London tech markets.

BTC China, the biggest bitcoin exchange in the world, has begun allowing users to buy the digital currency using Chinese yuan again, just a month after it halted renmibi deposits because of a bank warning.

Bangalore, India-based startup Lumos Design Technology made unbreakable waterproof bags with a built-in battery than can charge mobile gadgets with the use of solar power.

Seoul, South Korea-based startup investor Samsung Ventures invested an undisclosed amount in Michigan, US-based nanotech firm XG Sciences to co-develop more advanced batteries for consumer electronics.

Dublin, Ireland-based firm Top Level Domain Holdings bagged $33 million in funding from its investors to beef up its bidding power in the upcoming private auctions of new Internet domains.

Inq Mobile, the London-based company which is among the first to make a Facebook phone, announced via its website that it has shutdown, but the company has not elaborated on the exact reason.

Boston, US-based social advertising and marketing startup Moontoast announced that it has raised $4.5 million as extension to its Series B financing round for its expansion and platform development.

Washington University associate professor of engineering Robert Morley sued Square co-founders Jim McKelvey and Jack Dorsey for fraud and patent infringement, claiming he was wrongly left off a patent for the attachable credit card reader device.

San Francisco, California-based social games services provider Zynga Inc is laying off around 314 employees, or 15% of its workforce, as part of a cost reduction strategy to generate between $33 million to $35 million in savings for 2014.

Atlanta, US-based marketing automation platform Salesfusion has acquired social analytics platform LoopFuse for an undisclosed amount just two weeks after the former raised $8.25 million in a Series B funding round.

One Kings Lane, an online home furnishings retailer, has raised $112 million in its Series E funding round led by investment firm Mousse Partners Ltd. One Kings Lane is now valued at $912 million.

In an email addressed to the university community, Columbia University said it has hit a fundraising milestone recently when it managed to raise over $6.1 billion in funding, the second biggest by a US university to date.

Preparations are underway for Microsoft to appoint its enterprise and cloud head Satya Nadella as its new chief executive officer, sources who were familiar with the process told Bloomberg.

Internet giant Yahoo Inc disclosed via Tumblr that they have detected a coordinated mass hacking attempt on a yet undetermined number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and has reset the passwords of all affected accounts.

CrunchFund, the San Francisco, US-based venture capital firm co-founded by Michael Arrington, is raising $40 million for its second early-stage investment fund, according to a regulatory filing.

New York, US-based analytics firm Implisit raised $3.3 million in funding from Gemini Israel Ventures for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help improve sales efficiency.

A surge in hiring former Wall Street professionals to top positions in sports leagues such as NFL has been seen in recent times, thanks to the fact that sports leagues like the NFL are billion-dollar generating enterprises.

Sources tell Bloomberg that owners of US lender OneWest FSB is conducting one, final push to sell the company to a potential buyer as it prepares to exit in a planned initial public offering.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's investment in professional football team the Seattle Seahawks, current 2014 NFC Champions in Super Bowl Sunday, appeared to have paid off despite losing over $8 billion initially.

Philippine-based industrial chemical manufacturer received approval from its board for the sale of its entire 69.92% stake in LMG Chemicals Corp to businessman Norman Ng.

Canada-based digital media firm Aimia Inc is purchasing a minority stake in Malaysia-based firm Think Big Digital Sdn Bhd, the owner and operator of AirAsia-Tune Group's loyalty program.

Ireland-based food and agribusiness group Origin Enterprises completed the purchase of a 60% stake in Ukraine-based firm Agroscope in a deal valued at $17.6 million (€12.7 million).

Baar, Switzerland-based mining giant Glencore-Xtstrata is preparing to divest its stake in the Tampakan copper-gold mine in South Cotabato, Philippines, according to a disclosure to the Australian Stock Exchange.

New York, US-based clean tech firm BrightFarms pocketed $4.9 million in Series B funding to expand its network of greenhouses and promote locally-grown produce in the urban areas of the country.

Sydney, Australia-based online tailoring startup InStitchu expanded to the UK by partnering with two London-based entrepreneurs who planned to open a similar business but instead bought a minority stake in the company's new UK subsidiary.