Evidence presented Monday in a Singapore investigation revealed a US software engineer was unhappy at work and had written suicide notes before he died last year in what his parents insist was a murder. Software engineer Shane Truman Todd, 31, was found hanging from a black strap secu...
We have been thinking about and looking to make an investment in the Bitcoin ecosystem for several years. Today, we are happy to be able to talk about our first investment in the sector. We have made an investment in Coinbase along with our friends at Ribbit Capital, SV Angel and Fund...
These sorts of numbers make CEOs and people who count pennies pretty happy, and will be the fuel for fanboy wars across the Internet, but why are they important? I'll tell you why - because the available selection of applications designed for Android tablets sucks. Google keeps tellin...
China rose to the top of the PC market for the first time ever on an annual basis in 2012, relegating the US to second place with a lead of more than three million units, according to IHS iSuppli. PC shipments in 2012 to China amounted to 69m units, exceeding the 66m total reached by ...
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, Bitcoin has expanded off the internet into the local economy. Link to video: Bitcoin: world's fastest growing currency migrates off the internet Nadim Chebli remembers well the first of his customers who decided to pay for the records they bought with virtual cur...
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, virtual currency Bitcoin has expanded off the internet to become a favoured medium of exchange in real shops and bars. Joerg Platzer, the owner of bar Room 77 is helping to establish what he believes to be the world's first Bitcoin local economy
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, Bitcoin has expanded off the internet into the local economy. Link to video: Bitcoin: world's fastest growing currency migrates off the internet Nadim Chebli remembers well the first of his customers who decided to pay for the records they bought with virtual cur...
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, virtual currency Bitcoin has expanded off the internet to become a favoured medium of exchange in real shops and bars. Joerg Platzer, the owner of bar Room 77 is helping to establish what he believes to be the world's first Bitcoin local economy
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, Bitcoin has expanded off the internet into the local economy. Link to video: Bitcoin: world's fastest growing currency migrates off the internet Nadim Chebli remembers well the first of his customers who decided to pay for the records they bought with virtual cur...
In Kreuzberg, Berlin, virtual currency Bitcoin has expanded off the internet to become a favoured medium of exchange in real shops and bars. Joerg Platzer, the owner of bar Room 77 is helping to establish what he believes to be the world's first Bitcoin local economy
Appearance: Clean-cut, square-jawed, all-American, identical. AKA: Cameron and Tyler; the Winklevii. Occupation: Olympic rowers, social media entrepreneurs, chronic litigators. Something to do with Facebook, right? Yes! Would you care to elaborate on that? No. Go on, please … OK, way ...
when I recently logged into an old Yahoo e-mail account I still use for ordering flowers and entering N.C.A.A. basketball-tournament bracket contests, a message from "Google Account Recovery" greeted me with a cold reminder of my past e-mail-related shenanigans. It offered no salutati...
I'm an extreme phone geek. I like to change devices every six months or so, in part because I'm constantly recommending devices to others. For a while now, I've been using the Windows Phone 8X by HTC. I like Windows Phone a lot and the 8X's hardware is gorgeous, but I miss Android, bo...
The rollercoaster ride of Bitcoin 's valuation has, after a couple of months of being pulled up the roller, hit the "coaster" part. Now is the time where the people on board have to decide if they're going to scream and jump out - which a fair chunk of money seems to be doing just now...
Bitcoin , the digital currency, lost more than $160 (£104) in value on Wednesday, just hours after hitting a record high. The currency hit a new high of $266 before falling to $105 and then bouncing back to $130. The fall is unlikely to put off speculators. Two months ago, a Bitcoin w...
While the NPD no longer provides specific sales numbers for hardware, a representative does tell us that sales of the Wii U hardware for its first three months on the market are down 38% from what the Wii's numbers were at that same point. We're told by someone with access to the NPD'...
Among the many unpleasant discoveries made by those who stashed their cash in Cypriot banks is that the island's government could stop them moving their money elsewhere. Capital controls are supposed to be a thing of the past, a figment of the pre-globalised world. But it turns out th...
Among the many unpleasant discoveries made by those who stashed their cash in Cypriot banks is that the island's government could stop them moving their money elsewhere. Capital controls are supposed to be a thing of the past, a figment of the pre-globalised world. But it turns out th...
Among the many unpleasant discoveries made by those who stashed their cash in Cypriot banks is that the island's government could stop them moving their money elsewhere. Capital controls are supposed to be a thing of the past, a figment of the pre-globalised world. But it turns out th...
An obscure digital currency – used mostly for running drugs and laundering money for dictators – suffered a sudden crash on Wednesday , causing a minor sensation mostly among financial journalists and pundits. Bitcoin is a currency created years ago by an obscure hacker in the spirit ...
An obscure digital currency – used mostly for running drugs and laundering money for dictators – suffered a sudden crash on Wednesday , causing a minor sensation mostly among financial journalists and pundits. Bitcoin is a currency created years ago by an obscure hacker in the spirit ...
The value of individual Bitcoins has hit a record high of almost $147 as interest in the cryptographic currency, which has no central issuing bank, has exploded. Though the value fell back later on Wednesday to $117, the value of all Bitcoins in circulation is approaching $1.4bn. Both...
The value of individual Bitcoins has hit a record high of almost $147 as interest in the cryptographic currency, which has no central issuing bank, has exploded. Though the value fell back later on Wednesday to $117, the value of all Bitcoins in circulation is approaching $1.4bn. Both...
Mark Johnson* rifles through his mail as he gets home from work. Among the usual bills is a small padded envelope. Though it doesn't have his name on, it's the package he's most interested in: inside lie two grams of, he hopes, relatively pure MDMA. Johnson has no idea who has sent hi...
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency – worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing. It can be used to buy drugs, move money across the world, or get rich quick. The people behind Bitcoin speak to the Guardian's James Ball at their home in a squat in cent...
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency – worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing. It can be used to buy drugs, move money across the world, or get rich quick. The people behind Bitcoin speak to the Guardian's James Ball at their home in a squat in cent...
With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not yet seen. Like Lewis Carroll's original, this cartoon Alice is curious about the world – "she gives up her c...
With her blonde bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not yet seen. Like Lewis Carroll's original, this cartoon Alice is curious about the world – "she gives up her ...
In this film by the director James Lima, Louis Vuitton models are seen on the streets around the Pont Neuf in Paris at night, as well as backstage at the label's Paris fashion week show (where Kate Moss made a surprise return to the runway). The film was made for Love magazine and sty...
Something important happened at Paris fashion week on Monday. No, not Hedi Slimane's grunge revival or how laundromat checks are becoming a thing or Bono turning up in Stella McCartney's front row . Something, you know, important-important. Livia Firth, the Observer's Lucy Siegle and ...
