The Almighty Buck Stories for 2014

Apple Pay For the UK 75
Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie 117
Startups: the Crazy Ones, the Misfits, the Rebels ... the Dumb Ones 34
Russian Hackers Stole Millions From Banks, ATMs 53
Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help 265
JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip 71
Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing 190
The Magic of Pallets 250
Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down 275
T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? 144
To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games 160
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower 200
Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny 138
Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? 190
Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future 156
The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse 401
Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself 171
Microsoft Quietly Starts Accepting Bitcoin As Payment Method 107
NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget 121
Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion 190
James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him 235
Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables 280
Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' 415
The Rise of the Global Surveillance Profiteers 33
James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million 201
New Mexico Levies $54M Against Energy Dept. For Violations At Nuclear Repository 36
NSF Accused of Misuse of Funds In Giant Ecological Project 116
Romanian Officials Say Russia Finances European Fracking Protests 155
Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? 545
Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software 133
Kiva Systems Co-Founder: Drone Delivery Could Be As Low As 20 Cents Per Package 92
UK Announces 'Google Tax' 602
MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity 111
Big Banks Will Vie For Your Attention With Cardless ATMs and VR 76
A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? 274
The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming 375
Cyber Ring Stole Secrets For Gaming US Stock Market 37
Kim Dotcom Says Legal Fight Has Left Him Broke 117
Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle 189
Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War 43
Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice 51
BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 120
Was Microsoft Forced To Pay $136M In Back Taxes In China? 57
Canada's Ebola Vaccine Nets Millions For Tiny US Biotech Firm 70
NSF Commits $16M To Build Cloud-Based and Data-Intensive Supercomputers 29
Conglomerate Rock From Mars: (Much) More Precious Than Gold 65
Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight 102
Spaceport America Loses $1.7 Million Due To Virgin Galactic Delays 46
How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development 92
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Mozilla's 2013 Report: Revenue Up 1% To $314M; 90% From Google 161
Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions 319
Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court 203
Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart 287
UNSW Has Collected an Estimated $100,000 In Piracy Fines Since 2008 98
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief, Part II: Illustrating the Issue of Trust In Altcoins 46
US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive 173
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit 114
Court Shuts Down Alleged $120M Tech Support Scam 129
Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund 107
Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 516
US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins 119
Do Good Programmers Need Agents? 215
Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services 106
Billionaire Donors Lavish Millions On Code.org Crowdfunding Project 84
The Downside to Low Gas Prices 554
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77
Google Wallet API For Digital Goods Will Be Retired On March 2, 2015 105
Google Quadruples A.M. Turing Award To $1M 42
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising 223
How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa 377
Google's Lease of NASA Airfield Criticized By Consumer Group 138
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress 257
Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals 158
Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration 89
Gridlock In Action: Retailers Demand New Regulations To Protect Consumers 127
German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks 59
Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94 67
How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day 115
Mayday PAC Goes 2 For 8 224
Florida-Based Magic Leap Builds Its Team With Bay Area Hires 161
New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay 122
After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market 108
Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals 200
New Website Offers Provably Fair Solutions To Everyday Problems 167
Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA 142
PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud 208
American Express Seeks To Swap Card Numbers For Secure Tokens 130
Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold 66
Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies 353
Some Virgin Galactic Customers Demand Money Back 165
Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card 126
Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases 106
Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans 485
US Midterm Elections Discussion 401
Colleges Face New 'Gainful Employment' Regulations For Student Loans 331
Hungary's Plans For Internet Tax On Hold After Protests 48
Mark Zuckerberg And John Doerr Donate $1M To Expand The Hour Of Code Campaign 24
MIT Professor Advocates Ending Asteroid Redirect Mission To Fund Asteroid Survey 116
YouTube Considering an Ad-Free, Subscription-Based Version 225
Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached 265
Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay 631
Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron 255
Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet 558
Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required 424
Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' 353
Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" 283
Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion 117
Secretive Funding Fuels Ongoing Net Neutrality Astroturfing Controversy 56
How To Beat Online Price Discrimination 163
Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes 720
Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour 286
Leaked Documents Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Ebola Vaccine Issues 124
Apple 1 Sells At Auction For $905,000 81
Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M 167
Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud 95
Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic 324
Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected 398
Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries 198
IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division 84
Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign 76
Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right 839
Anonabox Accused of Lying About Its Product Being Open-Source On Kickstarter 72
Tech Workers Oppose Settlement They Reached In Silicon Valley Hiring Case 54
The Great Robocoin Rip-off 117
"Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed 259
Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation 314
Netflix To Charge More For 4K Video 158
Mining Kickstarter Data Reveals How To Match Crowdfunding Projects To Investors 20
Ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander's Investments In Tech Firms: "No Conflict" 59
AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges 61
Infected ATMs Give Away Millions of Dollars Without Credit Cards 83
Apple Sapphire Glass Supplier GT Advanced Files For Bankruptcy 171
Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency' 130
Cyanogen Inc. Turns Down Google, Seeing $1 Billion Valuation 107
Samsung Paid Microsoft $1 Billion Last Year In Android Royalties 93
Senators Threaten To Rescind NFL Antitrust Exemption 242
Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos 225
Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? 209
Laying the Groundwork For Data-Driven Science 55
Factory IoT Saves Intel $9 Million 50
eBay To Spin Off PayPal 76
Analyzing Silk Road 2.0 68
Court Rules Nokia Must Pay Damages To Buyers of Faulty Phones In Mexico 25
Medical Records Worth More To Hackers Than Credit Cards 78
Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM 49
Facebook's Atlas: the Platform For Advertisers To Track Your Movements 92
Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe 120
Mystery Gamer Makes Millions Moving Markets In Japan 113
Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts 127
The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes 201
How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology 83
NSF Awards $10 Million To Protect America's Processors 48
Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina 208
Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running 907
Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap 200
Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food 385
Stanford Promises Not To Use Google Money For Privacy Research 54
PayPal Integrates Bitcoin Processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin 56
Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails 203
Trouble In Branson-Land, As Would-Be Space Tourists Get Antsy Over Delays 77
Is Alibaba Comparable To a US Company? 126
Is Google's Non-Tax Based Public School Funding Cause For Celebration? 88
Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US 191
Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join 178
FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps 353
Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only 336
Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks 61
Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax On Rentals In San Francisco 71
eBay Redirect Attack Puts Buyers' Credentials At Risk 37
Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? 393
New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance 324
Funding Tech For Government, Instead of Tech For Industry 64
Amazon Is Killing Off Its Free P2P Money-Transfer Service WebPay On October 13 34
Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy 421
Hewlett-Packard Pleads Guilty To Bribing Officials in Russia, Poland, and Mexico 110
CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" 462
Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion 540
When Scientists Give Up 348
Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ 368
Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments 730
Paypal Jumps Into Bitcoin With Both Feet 134
Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative 387
$10 Bet Brings Researchers Closer to Industrial Scale Graphene Production 74
Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash 142
Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans 108
Protesters Blockade Microsoft's Seattle Headquarters Over Tax Breaks 246
Getting Into College the Old Fashioned Way: With Money 161
IT Job Hiring Slumps 250
Alibaba's US IPO Could Top $20 Billion 97
Google To Refund $19M In In-App Purchases Made By Kids 88
Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone 131
Verizon Pays $7.4 Million To Settle FCC Privacy Investigation 50
Code.org Discloses Top Donors 59
Apple Said To Team With Visa, MasterCard On iPhone Wallet 187
NASA's Competition For Dollars 78
Google Wins $1.3 Million From Patent Troll 35
FBI Investigates 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack On JP Morgan, 4 More US Banks 98
Indiana University Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Memes 126
Euro Bank Santander Commissions Study On Bitcoin's Impact On Banking 50
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? 355
Comcast Tells Government That Its Data Caps Aren't Actually "Data Caps" 341
Free Law Casebook Project Starts With IP Coursebook 22
Princeton Nuclear Fusion Reactor Will Run Again 147
News Corp Australia Doesn't Want You To Look Closely At Their Financials 132
Major Delays, Revamped Beta For Credit-Card Consolidating Gadget Coin 78
Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium 193
For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit 316
Oregon Sues Oracle For "Abysmal" Healthcare Website 212
Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software 159
How Game Developers Turn Kickstarter Failure Into Success 30
Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year 611
Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills 161
National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million For Cloud Computing Experiments 25
How Patent Trolls Destroy Innovation 97
Comcast Training Materials Leaked 251
$125,000 Settlement Given To Man Arrested for Photographing NYPD 231
Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data 171
Women Founders Outpace Male Counterparts In Certain Types of Kickstarter Funding 98
Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo 115
Are Altcoins Undermining Bitcoin's Credibility? 267
Delays For SC Nuclear Plant Put Pressure On the Industry 142
Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM 107
Student Bookstores Beware, Amazon Comes To Purdue Campus 95
Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico 158
Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording 368
Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces 137
Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More 268
The ESports Athletes Who Tried To Switch Games 146
Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology 275
The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router 224
Transatomic Power Receives Seed Funding From Founders Fund Science 143
Ecuador To Forge Ahead With State-Backed Digital Currency 85
Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode 442
Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews 183
LinkedIn Busted In Wage Theft Investigation 108
Spain's Link Tax Taxes Journalist's Patience 113
Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval 93
Google Sells Maine Barge For Scrap 79
San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years 343
Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? 171
Amazon's eBook Math 306
35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' 570
US States Edge Toward Cryptocoin Regulation 172
SpaceX Executive Calls For $22-25 Billion NASA Budget 114
Nasty Business: How To Drain Competitors' Google AdWords Budgets 97

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