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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 24: Bitfloor Bites the Dust, MoneyGram and Western Union Ponder BTC, MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles On Reuters TV
This week the bitcoin markets continue to recover from the crash from $266 unto $50 (although it didn’t linger there for long before gaining to near $100) recent trades have put the value around $130. Over the weekend, MtGox had a little bit of paranoia about DDoS attacks–as are becoming evermore common–but nothing came of ...
Zooz Closes $2M Series A Funding: Making Mobile Payments Easier Worldwide
ZooZ, the startup company that offers a complete, secure, and easy-to-use payment solution for e-commerce websites and mobile apps, has secured a $2M Series A funding led by Portola Valley, CA-based XSeed. Capital, with participation from existing investors lool ventures and Rhodium, both of which also contributed to ZooZ’s seed round. “Our ability to close ...
Reuters TV Gives an Exclusive Look at MtGox, Interviews CEO Mark Karpeles
Reuters TV has interviewed CEO Mark Karpeles about Bitcoin, MtGox, and the place of this cryptocurrency in the global economy. In this exclusive, the CEO of the biggest BTC exchange talks on a multitude of subjects including the recent volatility and the future of the currency. Bitcoin has seen some ups and downs, from an ...
Western Union and MoneyGram Ponder the Future of Bitcoin
The popularity of the best-working Internet cryptocurrency in history is continuing to soar and this has brought attention to major money transmitters such as Western Union and MoneyGram. The usual economic place that both companies is to permit people to transfer sums of money across distances—be they across the US or between countries—and at the ...
Week In Review : OpenStack Rallies the Troops Against AWS
The OpenStack Summit in Portland has reflected the amazing growth of the platform and highlights that it’s this open source cloud solution’s time to stand in the sun. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier makes that clear in his editorial outlining the powers that be are more than just embracing OpenStack, they’re lining up to be part of ...
CA Technologies CTO John Michelsen Talks DevOps 101
In a way, CA Technologies has always been in the business of DevOps—the paradigm just didn’t always have the revelations and philosophy of agile development—and desire to provide a business service to clients that delivers “acceleration, transformation, and security” to IT across the globe. As business on the Internet in mobile, across the web, and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 17: Bitcoin Bubble, Coinsetter Funding, MtGox Speaks, OKCupid Joins the Crowd Among Others
Last week, just as Bitcoin value exceeded $200 it also swelled to almost $266 only to see a crash over the next few days that brought it back down to near $50. It’s been a very volatile week since the last Bitcoin Weekly–but this hasn’t stopped even greater popularity from reaching into the bitcoin market, ...
OKCupid Partners with Coinbase to Accept Bitcoin for Online Dating
With over 4 million active users (and 7 million registered), OKCupid is a very popular Internet dating site that includes those annoying quizzes that everyone seems to love so much—and now Coinbase has announced a partnership with the dating site to enable acceptance of Bitcoin. This has been a big few months for the cryptocurrency ...
Reddit Becomes News Corkboard for Aftermath of Boston, Massachusetts Marathon Explosions
Often self-dubbed “the front page of the Internet,” social media news aggregator is making its bones today for that subtitle as users are using the service as a news corkboard for updates, information and developments after two bombs exploded in Boston, Mass. killing and injuring runners and spectators at the Patriots’ Day marathon. The corkboard ...
Mark Jacobs of Camelot Unchained Speaks on the Coming Free-to-Play MMO Apocalypse
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are currently in the throws of a highly disruptive market niche change: one that shifts publishers and developers attention from gathering money from users via subscriptions to one that monetizes free games much like how mobile survives. The standard for subscription seems to be dwindling with towering giants like World ...