Tokyo, Japan-based Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox announced on its site that it temporarily halted Bitcoin withdrawals to resolve a technical problem that arose from the increased withdrawal traffic.
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CircleCI secures $6M in Series A funding from venture capital firm DFJ
CircleCI was able to raise $6 million for its Series A funding round from DFJ, a venture capital firm, according to VentureBeat which cited a company blog post.
American mobile video ad startup Vungle snags $17M in Series B funding
San Francisco, California-based mobile video advertising startup Vungle snagged $17 million in a Series B funding round led by Thomvest Ventures to build monetization tools for developers of mobile apps.
PayNearMe secures $20M to allow cash lovers to make online transactions
PayNearMe, a company based in Sunnyvale, California that allows cash lovers to pay for their online transactions in cash, has raised $20 million for its fifth financing round, VentureBeat reported.
Former Citigroup CTO raises $1M for hardware startup Avegant on Kickstarter
Yobie Bejamin, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Citigroup, raised $1 million on via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for hardware startup Avegant's new kind of headset called Glyph.
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Tech giant Apple has cleared the App Store of all Bitcoin mobile wallet apps by pulling Blockchain from the store on Wednesday without a clear explanation for the move, but retained other non-wallet Bitcoin apps in the said store.
Datamolino, a Slovak startup processes invoices and receipts without the need for manual data entry, has received €500,000 for its seed financing round from Slovak Innovations and Technologies Fund, TechCrunch reported.
San Francisco, US-based firm Inzopa launched a platform that simplifies the process of home financing by connecting homebuyers with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and lenders.
Bloomthat, a flower delivery startup based in San Francisco, pulled in seed funding from investors that included SV Angel and Ashton Kutcher amounting to $2 million, TechCrunch reported.
New York, US-based startup Docurated nabbed $3.75 million in its first major funding round led by Rogers Venture Partners to help companies index and search for their files on local servers and cloud storage services.
Apple seems to be gearing up to go into sapphire crystal display manufacturing as documents reveal that the company is buying furnaces and chambers as well as tools for the purpose, TechCrunch reported citing a report from 9to5Mac and information from its own source.
American software company PressFriendly built a platform that works like a virtual PR team for startups and orient them on what they should do before sending a sales pitch to potential customers.
Allovue, an education technology firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, received $800,000 for its seed funding round from Maryland Technology Development Corporation, Baltimore Angels and Shulman Ventures.
San Francisco, US-based online real-time restaurant reservation platform OpenTable acquired Palo Alto, California-based personalized recommendations app maker Ness Computing in a deal valued at $17.3 million.
