The Almighty Buck Stories for 2018

Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. 296
As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic 698
Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? 497
Netflix Permanently Pulls iTunes Billing For New and Returning Users 108
'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' 510
'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' 267
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun 371
The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 232
Price Of Bitcoin Rises 27%, While Price of Bitcoin Cash Triples 83
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
Fortnite Teen Hackers 'Earning Thousands of Dollars a Week' 42
Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says 44
Amazon's Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase 132
Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies To Try a Four-Day Work Week 147
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year 138
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
Ranks of Crypto Users Swelled in 2018 Even as Bitcoin Tumbled 49
Ethereum Thinks it Can Change the World. It's Running Out of Time To Prove It. 150
Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage 90
'Cryptocurrencies Are Like Lottery Tickets That Might Pay Off in Future' 122
FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs 243
California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents 244
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown 100
Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs 335
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company 80
Bitcoin Options Purchased for $1 Million Will Soon Be Worthless 59
Cryptocurrencies Tumble Even More, While One Asset Manager Proclaims 'Bitcoin is Dead' 165
Amazon Targets Airports For Checkout-Free Store Expansion 66
DHS Looking Into Tracking Monero and Zcash Transactions 38
Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It. 410
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai 104
NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers 134
Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? 84
Two iOS Fitness Apps Were Caught Using Touch ID To Trick Users Into Payments of $120 64
AT&T Will Keep Your Money If You Cancel TV Or Internet In Middle of Billing Cycle 99
Who'd Go To University Today? 500
Amazon Tests Its Cashierless Technology for Bigger Stores 25
Bitcoin Miners Bail, While Cryptocurrency Capitalization Drops 83% Since January 148
More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report 281
DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019 23
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants 636
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled Charged For Illegally Touting Crypto Offerings 89
Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer 344
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes 153
Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's 119
The App Destroying Iran's Currency 83
Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business 119
Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records 84
Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach 30
China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students 93
Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low 673
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China 387
Cyber Monday Is Set To Be a $7.8 Billion Day, Breaking Online Records 46
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping 153
The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin 149
US Top Court Leans Toward Allowing Apple App Store Antitrust Suit 163
YouTube To Make New Originals Available for Free, Ad-Supported Viewing With 'Single Slate' Strategy 9
China's Cashless Economy Threatens To Leave Its Elderly -- and Their Money -- Behind 105
Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative 289
Bitcoin Loses 32% of Its Value This Week, Falls Below $4,000 201
Science Journals Are Laughing All the Way To the Bank, Locking the Results of Publicly Funded Research Behind Exorbitant Paywalls. This Must Be Stopped. 140
What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us 87
How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop 192
Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company 54
Your Credit Score Isn't a Reflection of Your Moral Character. But the Department of Homeland Security Seems To Think It Is. 336
Influencers Are Being Paid Big Sums To Pitch Products and Thrash Rivals on Instagram and YouTube 124
Square Enix Pulls Three Games From Belgium After Loot Box Ban 102
High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification 134
YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back 181
In an Open Letter To EU's Competition Commissioner, 14 European Shopping Comparison Services Say Google is Not Making the Search For Products Fairer 113
Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts 85
NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say 456
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Ford Eyes Use of Customers' Personal Data To Boost Profits 79
Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds 354
Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers 25
Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 180
Southeast Asia's Digital Economy To Triple To $240 Billion By 2025, Says Google Report 26
Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach 144
Apple CEO Explains How a Few Billion Dollars From Google Changes His Views on the Company's 'Unsettling' User Data Mining Activities 112
Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught 97
BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion 34
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says 75
Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa 190
Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award 129
Indiegogo 'Guaranteed Shipping' Will Ensure Refunds If Campaigns Fail 45
Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees 87
Bitcoin Plummets Under $6,000 To a New Low For the Year 132
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Amazon Is Getting More Than $2 Billion For NYC, Virginia Expansions 105
Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] 224
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters 234
Gates Foundation Spent $200 Million Funding Toilet Research 123
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Apple Not in Settlement Talks 'at Any Level' With Qualcomm, Report Says 31
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
Three European Countries Block Tax On Tech Giants 56
Energy Cost of 'Mining' Bitcoin More Than Twice That of Copper Or Gold 165
7-Eleven Tests Cashier-Free Shopping In 14 Stores 90
Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. 205
Apple Will No Longer Reveal How Many iPhones, iPads, and Macs It Sells 158
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada 116
Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt 117
AT&T Blacks Out HBO, Cinemax For Dish, Sling TV Users Over Carriage Dispute 107
The Average Cable Bill Has Increased More Than 50 Percent Since 2010 193
Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment 342
Facebook Reports Slowing Revenue and User Growth 30
Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments 116
Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle 183
UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants 90
Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions 290
Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Should Be Protected As Property 51
Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air 222
Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal 62
Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says 294
190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses 82
AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction 82
Google Reportedly Paid Andy Rubin $90 Million After He Allegedly Coerced Sex From Employee 286
Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations 195
Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach 36
Coinbase Lets You Buy and Sell USDC Stablecoin 53
Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox 112
YouTube Is Investing $20 Million In Educational Content, Creators 115
Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content 122
Micron Plans To Buy Out Intel's Stake In Flash Memory Joint Venture For $1.5 Billion 20
Armenia Opens $50 Million Bitcoin, Ethereum Mining Farm 38
Germany Urges Global Minimum Tax For Digital Giants 275
When Your Day Job Isn't Enough 191
Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? 249
Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent 83
US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade 290
How Paul Allen Saved the American Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence 48
Many Pay High Investment Company Fees For Services They Don't Use, Survey Shows 95
The Magic Leap Con 173
Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem 297
Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? 651
Why Someone Put a Giant, Inflatable Bitcoin Rat on Wall Street 39
Apple Inks $600 Million Deal To Acquire Assets and Talent From Dialog Semiconductor 28
Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers? 176
The Cryptocurrency Industry is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says 187
The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built For the Next Decade 107
Automated Warehouse In Tokyo Managed To Replace 90 Percent of Its Staff With Robots 73
James Murdoch In Line To Replace Musk As Tesla Chairman, Says Report [Update] 141
Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Case 52
China Makes a Big Play In Silicon Valley 72
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever 201
Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use 265
Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project 137
Former South Korean President Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Accepting $5.4 Million In Bribes From Samsung 152
Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said To Have Faltered On Tech Access 27
Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit 64
Toys R Us Cancels Bankruptcy Auction, Plans To Revive Brand 87
New Study Finds Incredibly High Carbon Pollution Costs -- Especially For the US and India 190
Half of US Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 An Hour After Vehicle Expenses, Study Says 156
Google's First Urban Development Raises Data Concerns 30
Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers 327
Half the World Is Now Middle Class Or Wealthier, Says Brookings Institution 279
Saudi Arabia Puts World's Biggest Solar Power Project On Hold 120
Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS 122
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs 43
Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed In Leaked Video 208
Uber Settles Data Breach Investigation For $148 Million 18
Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers 293
Google Ends Cryptocurrency Ad Ban For Certain Kinds of Ads 58
Uber Drivers and Other Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago 153
Greece Uses High-Tech Drones To Fight Tax Evasion In Holiday Hotspots 71
Tech Giants Spend $80 Billion To Make Sure No One Else Can Compete 112
Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone 60
Comcast Outbids Fox With $40 Billion Offer For Sky In Auction 24
NSA's 'Codebreaker Challenge' Features Exploiting Blockchain To Steal Ethereum 56
FCC Angers Cities, Towns With $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers 131
Apple's New Strategy: Sell Pricier iPhones First 115
AI Could Devastate the Developing World 165
Zaif Cryptocurrency Exchange Suffers $60 Million Hack 32
Box-Office Giant Ticketmaster Recruits Pros For Secret Scalper Program 143
Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support 159
Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger 71
EU Drops Court Case After Apple Repays More Than $16 Billion In Taxes and Interest To Ireland 118
Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition 250
Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival 177
Is Tech Billionaires' Educational Philanthropy a Bug Or a Feature? 154
Drone Startup Airware Is Shutting Down After Raising $118 Million 38
San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store 94
Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware 58
Cryptocurrency's 80 Percent Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash 178
Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% 670
T-Mobile, Ericsson Sign $3.5 Billion 5G Agreement 16
Solid-State Battery Startup Claims Breakthrough For Electric Vehicles 142
Marshall Islands Warned Against Adopting Digital Currency 71
Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version 86
Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash 191
The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow 215
Amazon is Stuffing Its Search Results Pages With Ads 158
Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major 216
Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines 174
Replace 'Tech' With 'Banks,' and We've Seen a Big Comeuppance Before 116
New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies 95
Crypto Growth Nears 'Ceiling,' Ethereum Co-Founder Buterin Says 87
Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center 72
OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction 204
Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens 51
Apple Says New China Tariffs Would Boost Prices On Some Products 240
Alibaba's Jack Ma, China's Richest Man, To Retire From Company He Co-Founded 40
Silicon Valley University Asks Professors To Offer Students Affordable Housing 171
Berlin Anti-Gentrification Activists Say They Have Occupied Google's Office in Kreuzberg To Fight Against the Skyrocketing Rents 161
NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar 174
Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey 168
Theranos To Close Shop 107
European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals 123
Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival In $12 Billion Attack 246
Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says 276
Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone 79
John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again 108
Google Bought Mastercard Data To Link Online Ads To Store Purchases, Says Report 137
Silicon Valley Has Been Treating Workers 'Miserably' Since the 1970s, Economic Historian Says 153
Microsoft Will Require Business Partners To Offer Paid Parental Leave 165
In an Accidental Email To TechDirt Editor, Telco Lobbyists Outline How They Intend To Shift The Blame For Privacy, Net Neutrality and More To Internet Companies 144
Senator Orrin Hatch Asks FTC To Investigate Competitive Effects of Google's Conduct in Search and Digital Advertising 110
In Venezuela, 'Cutting-Edge' Cryptocurrency is Nowhere To Be Found 129
What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says 424
Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers 88
Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope 99
Big Telecom Is Using Robocalls To Fight a Net Neutrality Bill in California 126
Y Combinator Plans To Start Doling Out $60 Million Next Year to Study Universal Basic Income 376
India's Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State -- And U.S. Tech Companies Are On Board 82
It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs 128
Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts For Almost One Percent of the World's Energy Consumption 172
Netflix Is the Latest Company To Try Bypassing Apple's App Store 71
Microsoft Hit With US Bribery Probe Over Deals in Hungary 52
Venmo Considers Making it Harder to See What Other People Are Buying, Report Says 32
How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases Into $100 million 34
Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO 58
Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store 'Tax' 128
As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely 559

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