Bitcoin gets an industry-backed advocacy group (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Experienced technology policy entrepreneur Jerry Brito launches the Coin Center, with venture capitalist backing.
View ArticleThis is the FTC’s first-ever Bitcoin case. And it’s winning....
The case involves Butterfly Labs, which sold bitcoin-mining computers but allegedly never delivered some of them.
View ArticleInnovations: Mr. Thiel goes to Washington, vents about America’s government...
The blunt PayPal co-founder blasts the U.S.government for having lost its ability to pull off grand projects.
View ArticleWonkblog: Wonkbook: What good is a climate summit without emissions cuts?...
The most interesting part of President Obama's U.N. speech was what he didn't say.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: Did Butterfly Labs profit from its own customers’...
Your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleUber raises $1.2 billion in funding for new investments...
A roundup of business news from around the world.
View ArticleHonda expands recall of Takata air bags (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
A roundup of business news from around the world.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: Google said to pull engineering office out of Russia...
Your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleWonkblog: Sorry, Putin. Russia’s economy is doomed (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Russia's central bank just hiked interest rates from 10.5 to 17 percent to try to stop the ruble, which is down 50 percent on the year, from falling any further.
View ArticleMonkey Cage: Bitcoin’s financial network is doomed (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. and other major states would never tolerate Bitcoin becoming a major payments network.
View Article7 things you didn’t read today (but should have) (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Cigars, rats and campaign finance
View ArticleThe Fix: 7 things you didn’t read today (but should have)...
Cigars, rats and campaign finance
View ArticleChange in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War...
Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba marks the end of animosity that survived the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
View ArticleWhy Bitcoin advocates might like New York’s new proposed rules for virtual...
A state regulator says it'll loosen requirements on virtual currency companies in the face of public feedback.
View ArticleBook review: ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson...
Nicholas Carlson reveals that despite her Hollywood-like status, Marissa Mayer still faces hurdles at Yahoo!
View ArticleVolokh Conspiracy: 80% of visits to Tor hidden services relate to child sex...
A disturbing finding, if it holds up.
View ArticleGM recalls more than 90,000 trucks, SUVs (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
A roundup of business news from around the world.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: Verizon might buy AOL (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleMain Street Morning: Controversial health insurance plans...
OSB's daily collection of news affecting entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses.
View ArticleBitcoin had a terrible 2014. And 2015 isn’t looking too hot either....
Bitcoin's uphill battle.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: Elon Musk’s favorite video games, revealed...
Your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleAttorney helps protect U.S. currency from counterfeiters...
Bureau of Engraving and Printing General Counsel Sidney Rocke advised changing the agency?s regulations to place the burden of proof on the suspected swindlers.
View ArticleGSA looks to commercial sector for new federal payment systems...
A request for information by Jan. 22 is part of a process that could end with contract awards in several years.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: The State of the Union, an FCC fine and more...
Your morning helping of handpicked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleMain Street Morning: State of the Union edition (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
OSB's daily collection of news affecting entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: The Winklevoss twins want to make the ‘Nasdaq of Bitcoin’...
Your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleReview: ‘Age of Cryptocurrency,’ bitcoin and economy, by Paul Vigna and...
Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey argue that bitcoin challenges the financial world to operate better.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: Cable industry opposes faster broadband definition...
Your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleInnovations: Society has outgrown privacy, just like it did chivalry...
In the digital era, privacy is a net drag on innovation.
View ArticleFact Checker: Rand Paul’s claim — twice in one day — that he has a biology...
The junior senator from Kentucky engages in some resume inflation.
View ArticleThe Switchboard: Obama administration to permit export of armed drones to...
Your morning helping of handpicked stories from the Switch team.
View ArticleTV highlights: CBS’s ‘Two and a Half Men’ ends with a look back at its...
Matthew Perry?s ?The Odd Couple? premieres on CBS and ?Vikings? returns to the History Channel.
View ArticleShould texts, e-mail, tweets and Facebook posts be the new fingerprints in...
We leave a trail of linguistic fingerprints, but as potential evidence to a crime, is it reliable?
View ArticleNorthern Va. teen thought to have helped man join Islamic State...
The 17-year-old student at Osbourn Park High School was taken into custody last week.
View ArticleCongresswoman asks FBI to brief her on teen said to aid a man to get to Syria...
U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock says she wants to make sure that officials can help support the FBI?s efforts.
View Article‘I thought he was just a great kid, and had real potential’...
Teen?s arrest in terrorism case sparks interest on Capitol Hill, and skepticism from those who know him.
View ArticleCavna: République Remastered: A game that taps into our police-state...
As obvious as the game?s criticisms are about the encroachment of the police state or the ease of character assassination in the digital age, they?re worth reiterating.
View ArticleMain Street Morning: Powdered alcohol (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Our rundown of news affecting start-ups and small businesses.
View ArticleWonkblog: The weird way people talk about zero interest rates...
Interest rates aren't zero because the Fed is distorting the economy. Interest rates are zero because the economy is already distorted.
View ArticleMonkey Cage: Why ‘Dark Web’ drug markets will keep on imploding...
The failure of the Evolution drug market suggests that law enforcement may have an easier time dealing with online drug dealers than many realize.
View ArticleMeet the man whose utopian vision for the Internet conquered, and then...
An influential manifesto declared independence from governments ? and tech companies seized power.
View ArticleMain Street Morning: Color for the colorblind (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Our rundown of news affecting start-ups and small businesses.
View ArticleMain Street Morning: Apple Store pranksters (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Our rundown of news affecting start-ups and small businesses.
View ArticleWonkblog: Meet the Dutch cocaine dealer who sells flour to drunk tourists as...
What the drug economy looks like through the eyes of a drug dealer.
View ArticleInnovations: Could cemeteries become a relic? (feeds.washingtonpost.com)
FIVE IDEAS | Here's a look at how technology could impact our lives.
View ArticleWonkblog: A brief guide to what Rand Paul actually believes...
The senator from Kentucky has real differences of opinion with other likely GOP presidential candidates.
View ArticleRand Paul’s genius political move to take your donations by Bitcoin...
Beyond reaching out to techies and young people, Paul's Bitcoin machine will also likely earn him more on every donation.
View ArticleRand Paul’s campaign takes bitcoins. Here’s why that’s a genius political...
Beyond reaching out to techies and young people, Paul's Bitcoin machine will also likely earn him more on every donation.
View ArticleHow social media changed the Internet and what it costs for us...
Jacob Silverman probes how, online, we trade our privacy for convenience and our time for someone else?s profit
View ArticleCavna: 155th anniversary of Pony Express: The art of a letter-perfect Google...
Of arts and letters: Here's how a team of artists and engineers built an animated video game to mark today's anniversary of the Pony Express,
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