Microsoft's first antitrust target: Google. How the tables have turned. Microsoft, a company who is no stranger to regulator scrutiny, ...
There’s no shortage of money being thrown at digital currency Bitcoin . Last week, Bitcoin wallet startup Coinbase scored $5 million in funding. And this week, both Boost.VC and Liberty City Ventures allocated more funding for Bitcoin-focused startups. Now relatively young Bitcoin sta...
The future is now. We have heads-up displays on our glasses , and we can buy things with virtual spacebucks. Today, those spacebucks just got a little more real because the Humble Bundle revealed it will accept the Bitcoin digital currency as a payment option for its Double Fine colle...
Prominent entrepreneur and Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon is known for being ahead of the curve, and he recently attracted headlines for investing in 3D-printing startup Shapeways . Another upcoming area he thinks will be big: Startups focused on the virtual currency Bitcoin...
For the third time this month , Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox fell to distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) today. Some people just aren’t down with alternative currencies, it seems. The company wrote on its Facebook : This again appears to be another strong DDoS attack. We are work...
In a rare twist, the majority of startups closing funding rounds today are targeted to consumers. W e’ve recently seen business-focused tech dominate the deals channel. Bitcoin, crowdfunding, foodie, usability testing, mobile events, and community sports startups landed a round of ven...
Back in late February, top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox struck a deal to let Seattle startup CoinLab handle its U.S. operations. But now what looked like it would be a beautiful friendship has turned into an ugly mess. CoinLab is suing Mt. Gox for $75 million over failure to give CoinLab ...
Leading Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been knocked offline in another distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack just hours after the exchange re-opened following a huge Bitcoin price decline. “We are experiencing a stronger than usual DDoS,” Mt. Gox wrote on its Facebook page. “We ar...
Virtual currency Bitcoin has seen a massive rise in prices in the past few week, but today that growth halted with a precipitous price decline of more than $100. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that has seen a lot of momentum over several months, most of which is likely du...
