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Consumer protection agencies are getting worried about cryptocurrencies. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investor alert today warning about the risks of investing in bitcoin and other virtual currencies such as Peercoin, Dogecoin, and Minacoin. This is actually the SEC’s second cryptocurrency-related alert. The first was issued last summer after the agency Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Ben Simmoneau on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about wearables for Mom. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Ben Simmoneau on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about wearables for Mom. Continue Reading →

U.S. and Canadian customers of failed Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have agreed to settle their proposed class action lawsuits that alleged the company defrauded them of hundreds of millions of dollars. The class action plaintiffs agreed to support a plan by Sunlot Holdings to buy the shuttered exchange and accept their share of bitcoins Continue Reading →

Two MIT students have successfully raised more than half a million dollars in order to give all 4,528 undergraduate students on campus $100 worth of the cryptocurrency to use as they see fit. Rather than being another Bitcoin publicity stunt, the pair say that the intention is to establish a genuine ecosystem for digital currencies Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Ben Simmoneau on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about Amazon Prime Pantry. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Ben Simmoneau on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about Amazon Prime Pantry. Continue Reading →

Researchers scouring the official Google Play market have unearthed more Android apps that surreptitiously abuse end-user devices to carry out the computationally intensive process of mining Bitcoins. The malware, dubbed “BadLepricon” by its creators, was stowed away inside six five separate wallpaper apps that had from 100 to 500 downloads each, according to a blog Continue Reading →

People think Bitcoin is funny money and Google Glass has no specs appeal — if they even know what these new technologies are. Many people are still unaware of Google’s smartglasses or digital currencies, according to new research from the UK, and those that do are worried about the privacy or financial issues of these Continue Reading →

Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, is likely to be liquidated after a Tokyo court dismissed the company’s bid to resuscitate its business, the court-appointed administrator said on Wednesday. CEO Mark Karpeles is also likely to be investigated for liability in the collapse of the Tokyo-based firm, the provisional administrator, lawyer Nobuaki Kobayashi, Continue Reading →