Bitcoin Ticker Available On Bloomberg Terminal For Employees

Bitcoin is now officially mainstream. According to BTC Geek, Bloomberg terminal users can now look up Bitcoin's pricing history. Data comes from ubiquitous Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox as well as Tradehill. For now, only Bloomberg employees can access the ticker. But the feature should make its way to regular Bloomberg terminal customers under the label XBT.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/bitcoin-ticker-available-on-bloomberg-terminal/

Video-based social network Keek hits 58M users, raising $100M to challenge Instagram, Vine

VentureBeat has learned that under-the-radar video-based social network Keek, which just hit 58 million users, is currently raising a massive $100 million round of financing. Keek, which just recently raised $18 million in January of this year, is a sort of YouTube/Twitter mashup.

http://wp.me/p1re2-3k1Q

Virality has a price. Tumblr invested 110M$ to become a global brand.

When Yahoo! acquired Tumblr, I was told they were about to raise new money as they were running out of cash. I was amazed. They closed a 85M$ round 20 months before for a total of 125M$ raised!? Forget virality and sexy story telling on how a simple product...

http://fred.over-blog.com/virality-has-a-price.-tumblr-invested-110m%24-to-become-a-global-brand