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Bitcoin prices plummet following Mt. Gox outage & Instawallet hacking
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The price of Bitcoin has been on a tear as of late, with prices surging from $100 a few days ago to $147 earlier today. But an outage of the largest Bitcoin market and an unrelated Bitcoin hacking incident have knocked the price back down to $115. Bitcoin is...
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This article was launched early by mistake. It will be relaunched on Sunday 21 April. We apologise for any inconvenience.guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds ...
Sprint's LTE network expands to 21 new cities including Los Angeles and Memphis
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Sprint still has plenty of work to do before its LTE network can match the coverage Verizon and AT&T offer, but the carrier's latest rollout manages to scratch a few major cities off the list. The carrier has announced that it's today lighting up service in 21 cities including...
Terraria - review
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Xbox 360, 505 Games, cert: 12Perhaps Terraria might simplistically be painted as "Minecraft in 2D, with cutesy pixel art". It's not necessarily the fairest description though, as each game's approach to world-building is very different. Terraria is a touch more focused. There are objectives - mainly bosses to find and...
Could crowdfunding produce A&E's next hit show?
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Crowdfunding success no longer just means financial backing. A&E's partnership with RocketHub could mean it comes with advertisers and free publicity, too. [cnnmoney-byline src="By Kurt Wagner"] FORTUNE -- When more than 90,000 supporters helped to raise over $5.7 million last month on Kickstarter for a Veronica Mars movie, crowdfunding got...
Glam re-cooks Foodie.com with new features & prepares to take on the print world
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Last year saw Glam Media plunge into a new Food-focused vertical Foodie.com, which is now one of the most popular sites in the genre. Now, the company is rolling out a brand new version of the site that puts a focus on user-based recipe submissions, expert reviews, and even...
UK Parking Enforcement Contractor Leaves Sensitive Driver Data Exposed; Compounds Embarrassment By Issuing Bogus Legal Threats
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Another day, another self-inflicted privacy breach. This time it's a UK private parking enforcement contractor that's leaving its supposedly-secret stuff right out in the open. UK Parking Control (UKPC) is accused of revealing photographs of Brits' cars parked with number plates clearly to be read and in some cases...
UK Parking Enforcement Contractor Leaves Sensitive Driver Data Exposed; Compounds Embarrassment By Issuing Bogus Legal Threats
Instant Google Fiber competition? AT&T to launch its own 1Gb broadband service in Austin
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Well that didn’t take very long. Moments after the Google Fiber Austin announcement, major ISP and television provider AT&T announced that it too plans to offer Austinites access to a gigabit broadband Internet service. The service is expected to offer the 1Gb per second up and download speeds that...
SkyDrive for iOS update suggests Microsoft & Apple resolved their dispute
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After months of behind-the-scenes hold-ups, an update to SkyDrive for iOS arrived in the App Store on Wednesday, signaling that Microsoft and Apple have apparently made amends....
Google Reader aftermath: Feedly iOS gets big updates, while Reeder for Mac goes free
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Google announced on the Official Google Blog earlier this month that it will retire Google Reader on July 1, 2013, but the brains behind Reeder for Mac and iOS, a Google Reader client, clarified that development of their apps will continue after July 1. Moreover, since explaining what’s in store...
AT&T clarifies price, says Galaxy S4 will start at $199.99
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The preorders will begin on April 16, although the carrier has yet to provide a release date. [Read more]...
UK top 20 video games chart
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Bioshock Infinite holds on to the top spot for a third week, while Fifa 13 rises in a quiet week for new releasesUKIE Games Charts © compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is...
DealBook: Could Verizon's Best Friend Be Its Biggest Rival?
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Verizon is working with its main rival, AT&T, about a joint bid for Vodafone, The Financial Times's Alphaville blog reports. If true, a successful deal could solve issues at both Verizon and Vodafone....
Chatterbox: Wednesday
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The place to talk about games and other things that matterHere be Wednesday.GamesKeith Stuartguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds...
AT&T and Google's plans to give Austin a gigbit is an experiment. Is it a good one?
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Austin may be feeling like one of the luckiest towns in the world today. Not one, but two big name companies have said they plan a gigabit network in the Texas Capital. But, as both Google and AT&T plan their fiber-to-the-home deployment strategies, they are testing plans that look inefficient...
Payleven launches person-to-person card payments in Europe
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Germany-based card payments startup Payleven is going to make its chip-and-PIN service available to individuals, the company said on Wednesday.Payleven offers a similar mobile card payments service as the U.S. based Square. Up until now, Payleven's chip-and-PIN service was only available to small merchants but as of Wednesday Payleven...
New Speakers and Sessions Added to Inside Social Apps San Francisco
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We’re gearing up for the biggest social app event of the year: Inside Social Apps Conference & Expo, happening June 6-7 in San Francisco. Expert developers, marketers, analysts, consultants, and venture capitalists will lead sessions on key social app development, advertising, and investment opportunities. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to...
Size doesn't matter: Yahoo Mail & Dropbox team up to kill email attachment limits
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Sept. 9 - 10, 2013San Francisco, CAEarly Bird Tickets on Sale Yahoo Mail has integrated with cloud storage hotshot Dropbox so email users can send attachments of any size and save attachments to Dropbox, the companies announced today. Yahoo has seen a lot of momentum toward major product improvements ever...
Facebook updates its mobile app install ads with new targeting by OS and data speed
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Facebook announced on Wednesday that it is releasing an update to its mobile app install ads product, which launched last year. Starting today, advertisers are able to improve targeting of their ads based on connection type, what mobile operating system is being used, and also can now build these ads within...
After Everyone Points Out iPhone Will Be Cheaper Than Galaxy S4 On AT&T, Carrier Claims A Mulligan
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AT&T has issued a clarification on its Galaxy S4 pricing via the unique method of a small statement in a footnote to an earlier post. Previously, AT&T had announced via its consumer blog on March 28 that it would be offering the Galaxy S4 starting at $249.99 with pre-orders beginning...
Apple & Samsung are battling it out Toe to Toe in India
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Apple and Samsung are battling it out toe to toe in India, reports the Wall Street Journal. They're trying to outdo one another by offering various discounts to convince consumers to switch smartphones. Apple launched a promotion in early April that allows consumers to exchange any of their older smartphones--whether...
Founder Stories: Snaplogic's Gaurav Dhillon On The Importance Of Timing
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Founding a company is both lonely and challenging – I know. Guarav Dhillon first went through this journey almost two decades ago when there were fewer support outlets. Now today as Dhillon is running Snaplogic, a company he started a couple of years ago, he is applying learnings from...
VC bigshots team up to form Google `Glass Collective'
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Investment syndicate brings together Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures to offer seed money for Google Glass startups. [Read more]...
EBay, a Gusher of Cash, Seems a Rare Find
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Over the past decade, eBay's stock has risen 2½ times faster than the S&P 500. There will likely be more where that came from....
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Index Ventures' Mike Volpi
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Index Ventures’ Partner Mike Volpi is our esteemed guest in the TechCrunch TV studio this week for our Ask A VC show. As you may remember, you can submit questions for Volpi either in the comments or here, and we’ll ask them during the show. Volpi, who focuses on investments...
Awesome: Entire Editorial Board Of Journal Of Library Administration Resigns In Support Of Open Access
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With academics increasingly fighting back against ridiculous academic journal publishing rules that lock up information, we've often wondered how academics who work for some of those journals feel. In one case, those academics have just made a very loud statement. The editor and entire editorial board for the Journal of...
Awesome: Entire Editorial Board Of Journal Of Library Administration Resigns In Support Of Open Access
B&N Sweetens The Deal For Windows 8 Users With Free Nook Books And Magazines
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Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part-owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content for its new Windows 8 platform, today put some of that strategy into action: it has announced that people who download the Nook app for Windows 8 will get five books and five...
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