18-Year-Old Reports $1 Million Bitcoin Theft From...

18-Year-Old Reports $1 Million Bitcoin Theft From ‘Bank’ He Controlled — And Says He Can’t Call The Cops

Jim Edwards, businessinsider.com

An 18-year-old Aus­tralian says that he has had $1 mil­lion in Bit­coin stolen from the Bit­coin “bank” he was run­ning, but he can­not go to the police because he wor­ries that giv­ing author­i­ties the keys to inves­ti­gate the case is the same …

As Mobile Payments Should Bechimpchange.me Chim­pChange is an...

As Mobile Payments Should Be

chimpchange.me

Chim­pChange is an app based, web inte­grat­ed mobile pay­ments start-up look­ing to improve the way the younger gen­er­a­tion move money between each other.

Square launches Cash, a peer-to-peer payments service that’s...

Square launches Cash, a peer-to-peer payments service that’s incredibly simple to use

Kevin Fitchard, gigaom.com

Square offi­cial­ly took the wraps off its planned peer-to-peer pay­ments ser­vice Square Cash today, and the results are quite impres­sive — it isn’t just cre­at­ing a Pay­Pal clone. It’s stream­lined the trans­ac­tion to a bare min­i­mum of two…

Hired Raises $15M Series A At Valuation Around $60M Billy...

Hired Raises $15M Series A At Valuation Around $60M

Billy Gallagher, techcrunch.com

Hired, a start­up aim­ing to make hir­ing employ­ees and find­ing a job eas­i­er and more effi­cient, has raised a $15 mil­lion Series A round led by Crosslink and Sier­ra Ven­tures with par­tic­i­pa­tion from Soft­Tech and Sher­pa Ven­tures.…

Your startup might be your baby, but your employees...

Your startup might be your baby, but your employees aren’t

Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.com

Run­ning a com­pa­ny can often feel like car­ing for a new­born child. There is a nat­ur­al and healthy fear that aris­es that if you are not eter­nal­ly vig­i­lant then some­thing bad will hap­pen.

With a baby, this is called good par­ent­ing.…

Oink helps parents monitor and control their kid’s in-app...

Oink helps parents monitor and control their kid’s in-app purchases

Emily Price, engadget.com

A 13-year-old with access to his par­ent’s iTunes account can poten­tial­ly rack up a siz­able bill in an after­noon of Candy Crush — a tab mom might poten­tial­ly refuse to pay because she didn’t autho­rize the pur­chase. Pay­ments com­pa…

The 39 Most Valuable Startups In The World Megan Rose Dickey,...

The 39 Most Valuable Startups In The World

Megan Rose Dickey, businessinsider.com

Ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists and investors are con­tin­u­ing to pour money into star­tups.

Ear­li­er this year, the Wall Street Jour­nal released a report of more than 30 star­tups from the U.S., China, and Europe that are val­ued at $1 bil­lion or…