BBVA Ventures, the corporate venture arm of BBVA Group that invests in disruptive startups in the financial services industry, announced today that it has made an investment in Coinbase, the world’s leading Bitcoin platform.

Last year the multinational chain of cafés specialized in donuts Dunkin’ Donuts initiated a strategy for renewing its customer base by giving more importance to the role of mobile devices. Consequently, it designed a loyalty program similar to that of Starbucks, which was ready to launch at the start of this year.

BBVA Compass today announced an agreement that opens its technology platform to payments innovator Dwolla, allowing customers of the bank to use the Iowa startup’s real-time network to make money transfers.

“What does the millennial generation mean for technology makers?” This is the big question that Jake Wobbrock, CEO and co-Founder of AnswerDash, tackles in a recent article published in the Wired "Innovation Insights" community.

Developers from around the world can pre-register for BBVA’s second “hackathon”. The participants will have access to anonymous, statistical, and irreversibly dissociated data from Mexico’s three largest cities: Mexico City, Guadalajara and  Monterrey.

With a few hardware changes, such as a ring of near-infrared LEDs, a Microsoft LifeCam is adapted to work as a depth camera.