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The failed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has given up on its plan to rise from the ashes under bankruptcy protection. Instead, it’s asked a Tokyo court for permission to be liquidated “People familiar with the situation” told the newspaper that the sheer complexity of the operation to r
The Indiegogo campaign for miracle calorie-counting wristband, “GoBe,” officially ended. Absent any last minute fraud prevention action by PayPal or the major credit card issuers, Moscow-based Healbe is about to receive somewhere in the ballpark of $1,100,000 from users of the crowd-funding platform
The Chevrolet Volt could prove to be a “mainstream” electric vehicle, so to speak, but demand has not been as strong as what its executives anticipated ever since the Volt entered production at the beginning of this decade. General Motors has been touted to be working on a more affordable bank accou
Lenovo has announced a number of additions to its consumer all-in-one and notebook PC lineups, including a smaller version of the A740 all-in-one it showed off at CES in January. The Lenovo A540 AiO will feature a 23.8-inch IPS display that delivers resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. Encased in a di
In the ongoing Apple v. Samsung patent trial on Tuesday, Samsung continued its defense against by calling on a cavalcade of computer science experts who testified that Apple’s patents were not novel, should not have been granted or did not apply to alleged infringing products. Samsung’s
After composing some of the most memorable songs in gaming for Bungie games including most of the Halo series, Myth and Oni, Martin O’Donnell tweeted tonight that he has been terminated “without cause” by Bungie’s board of directors. It’s not entirely common for a game
Fashion is the next big frontier for e-commerce sites: Snapdeal has acquired a Delhi-based fashion & lifestyle product discovery site Doozton for an undisclosed amount, reports TechCrunch. Snapdeal co-founder Rohit Bansal has told the publication that it will be using Doozton’s technology to fea
BlackBerry once ruled the mobile market, but after losing most of its mainstream consumers over to Apple and Android the company will return to its roots with an upcoming “Q20″ Classic meant for enterprise. At the same time, it looks like BlackBerry may target another niche market with a new device
Beijing-based online retailer Jumei plans to hold its initial public offering in the U.S. In its SEC filing over the weekend Jumei, which offers daily deals on fragrances and cosmetics, said it wants to raise up to $400 million, but did not disclose which exchange it will list on. The company was fo
Fetch TV has added another feather to its cap, with the SyFy channel joining the IPTV services “entertainment pack”. Fetch TV’s entertainment pack is an add-on to its base service. It adds more than 30 channels to the basic set up of the Fetch TV box, catch up TV and movie rentals.
Not all politicians hold a grudge against video games. Last Sunday, a number of Swedish politicians participated in a StarCraft II tournament called Politikerstarcraft. Creator Jonathan Rieder Lundkvist told The Daily Dot the objective of the event was to “increase awareness of e-sports in pol
Remember the “eye in the sky” idea, where satellites are powerful enough to keep track of every single person on earth, with street cameras helping it keep track of our movement, coming in and going out? Well, it seems that such an idea is about to be realized soon, where such a surveillance system
