The Almighty Buck Stories for 2019

Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts 67
Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven't Happened (Yet) 39
Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Project Has Failed in its Current Form, says Swiss President 43
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200 59
Tesla Patents New Chemistry For Better, Longer-Lasting and Cheaper Batteries 26
Huawei Reportedly Got By With a Lot of Help From the Chinese Government 47
Tesla Stock Hits 'Funding Secured' $420 Price 121
WeWork's Sudden Fall Reveals the Cracks in the Startup Economy 47
Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law 62
Some Farmers Have Discovered That Online Stardom Can Be More Lucrative Than their Crops or Livestock 68
The New Payday Lender Looks a Lot Like the Old Payday Lender 78
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Bitcoin Was the Best Investment of the Decade 139
How a Whale Crashed Bitcoin To Sub-$7,000 Overnight 228
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Nuclear Fusion Startup Raises $100 Million To Design and Build a Demo Power Plant 141
Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa 21
Lawsuit Forces CenturyLink To Stop Charging 'Internet Cost Recovery Fee' 43
Less Than 10 Percent of Americans Are Buying $1,000 Smartphones, Report Says 126
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
Vietnam's Richest Man Bets $2 Billion To Sell Cars To Americans 77
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
Greeks Set To Face Heavy Fines If They Don't Spend 30% of Their Income Electronically 187
Disney Becomes First Studio To Surpass $10 Billion At Worldwide Box Office 62
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
Scientists Dodge FDA To Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia 145
Netflix Is Spending $420 Million on Indian Content, CEO Says 52
The Case For Portland-To-Vancouver High-Speed Rail 153
Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million 26
He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk In North Korea. The US Arrested Him. 244
Can AI Predict the Stock Market? No, But the Attempt Was Interesting 87
Walmart Dodged US Tax on $2 Billion by Routing Cash Through Multiple Countries, Whistleblower Says 226
High-Paid, Well-Educated White Collar Workers Will Be Heavily Affected By AI, Says New Report 147
Cable Execs Now Falsely Claiming Cord Cutting Is Slowing Down 59
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info 62
YouTube Needs To Chill With Its Annoying Premium Spam 117
Price of Bitcoin Plummets Below 'Psychological' $7,000 Level After China Promises Crackdown 131
FCC Bars Huawei, ZTE From Billions in Federal Subsidies 27
PayPal To Acquire Shopping and Rewards Program Honey For $4 Billion 13
Zero-Commission Trading is Coming To Crypto 37
'Royalty-Free' Music Supplied By YouTube Results In Mass Video Demonetization 156
Foreigners Visiting China Are Increasingly Stumped By Its Cashless Society 155
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey 152
FCC Sued By Dozens of Cities After Voting To Kill Local Fees and Rules 106
PayPal Pulls Out of Pornhub, Hurting 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Performers 235
Apple Is Considering Bundling Digital Subscriptions as Soon as 2020 35
YouTube's New Kids' Content System Has Creators Scrambling 97
Transcription Platform Rev Slashes Minimum Pay for Workers 112
Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking 91
Dell Unveils Subscription Model To Counter Amazon, Microsoft 29
Facebook Unites Payment Service Across Apps With Facebook Pay 15
Disney Plus' Launch Marred by Complaints of Service Failures, Login Problems 58
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
Singapore Wants To Become an Asian Hub For Virtual Banks 16
WeWork Says It Will Divest All 'Non-Core' Businesses 42
Share of Cryptocurrency Jobs Grew 1,457% In 4 Years 25
Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business 83
The Cost For Each SLS Launch Is Over $2 Billion 99
AT&T Switches Customers To More Expensive Plans Without Asking Them First 105
Fitbit Says Data of Its 28 Million Users Will Not Be Sold Or Used For Google Ads 56
Leaked Documents Show Facebook Leveraged User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends 22
SoftBank Reveals $6.5 Billion Loss From Uber, WeWork Turmoil 33
AT&T Users Whose 'Unlimited Data' Was Throttled Get $60 Million In Refunds 44
One Bitcoin 'Whale' May Have Fueled the Currency's Price Spike in 2017 45
A Glitch in Robinhood App is Allowing Users To Trade Stocks With Excess Borrowed Funds, Giving Them Access To What Amounts To Free Money 68
Enjoy Netflix While It Lasts. It Can't Keep Going Like This Forever. 194
Buying Fitbit Won't Save Google's Failing Wear OS 27
Oracle Revives Charges That Pentagon Bid Was Tainted by Amazon Conflicts 47
Google, Walmart Help Drive India Payments Past 1 Billion Transactions 8
Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach 20
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group Are Merging To Become World's Fourth-Largest Automaker 87
Salesforce Transit Center: San Francisco's $2.2 Billion Cracks 81
FCC Moves To Cut Off Huawei, ZTE From Subsidies 36
Indian Tech Startups Have Raised a Record $11.3B This Year 3
Migrating Russian Eagles Run Up Huge Data Roaming Charges 37
Man Sues AT&T, Saying He Lost $1.8 Million In Cryptocurrency With SIM Card Hack 41
The FCC is Using Streaming Services as an Excuse To Raise Cable Rates 52
Facebook Is Launching a News Section -- and Will Pay Some Publishers Millions 28
Tesla Returns To Profitability, Smashes Analyst Estimates 230
Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Most Popular Mobile Payment Platform in the US 67
2,000 WeWork Employees To Lose Their Jobs As Former CEO Adam Neumann Prepares To Walk Away With at Least $1 Billion 261
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills For Moving Data 64
Facebook To Face $35 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit Over Misuse of Facial Recognition Data 23
Company Offers To Pay You $130,000 To Put Your Face On a Robot 35
More Than Half of the World's Banks Are Already in a Weak Position Before Any Downturn That May Be Coming 100
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Tell Congress That Embattled Libra Crypto Project Will 'Extend America's Financial Leadership' 42
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery In His Garage 212
Facebook Forges Ahead With Libra Despite Some Major Setbacks 44
Is America's Federal Banking System Considering Its Own Digital Cryptocurrency? 73
Call of Duty Will Have a Battle Pass Instead of Loot Boxes 54
Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World 47
Hot Online Bank Startup Leaves Customers Without Access to Their Cash 53
GitLab Won't Exclude Customers On Moral Grounds, Says That Employees Should Not Discuss Politics At Work 175
Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard From Play Store Over Donation Links 39
Data For 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards Leaked In Hack of Fraud Bazaar 7
'We Need a New Capitalism' 435
Should Facebook Ban Campaign Ads? 98
PG&E Should Compensate Customers For Power Shutoffs, California Governor Says 174
Founder of 'Tesla Killer' Faraday Future Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 35
Would You Give Up Google For $17,000 a Year? The Federal Reserve Wants To Know 140
G7 Taskforce Warns Global Crytocurrencies Like Libra Pose Risks, May Not Be Approved 92
New OpenLibra Cryptocurrency: Like Libra, But Not Run By Facebook 68
AT&T Raises Prices 7% By Making Its Customers Pay AT&T's Property Taxes 69
Ebay, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Drop Out of Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency, After PayPal 24
AT&T To Sell Puerto Rico Business As It Looks To Pay Down Debt 15
Comcast Incorrectly Charged 2,000 Customers For Exceeding Data Cap 49
Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising 63
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Cheap Android Smartphones 22
Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers 100
PayPal Withdraws Support For Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency 29
60 Amazon Workers Walked Out Over Warehouse Working Conditions 54
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars Intensify 44
Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says 65
Amazon Plans $800 Million Data Center In Argentina 20
Cable Companies Use Hidden Fees To Raise Prices 24% a Month 77
Samsung Owes Galaxy S4 Owners $10 For Cheating On Benchmarks 32
Zimbabwe Has Shut Down the Use of Mobile Money For Cash Transactions 22
Sony Cuts PS Now Subscription Price For PS4 Worldwide 9
New App Claims It Can Identify Venture Capitalists Using Facial Recognition 70
Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits 301
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday For K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org 47
California Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes To Profit 127
Dog-Walking Startup Wag Raised $300 Million To Unleash Growth. Then Things Got Messy 58
MayPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits To $70 Million Fraud 37
SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off. 55
Internet Sector Contributes $2.1 Trillion To US Economy, Industry Group Says 14
Venezuela Has Bitcoin Stash and Doesn't Know What to Do With It 82
Open Offices Are a Capitalist Dead End 143
Sprint Took FCC Cash For 'Serving' 885,000 People It Wasn't Actually Serving 46
Busy North Korean Hackers Have New Malware To Target ATMs 25
Two Arrested In $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed On the Elderly 60
Google Is Investing $3.3 Billion To Build Clean Data Centers In Europe 24
Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics 148
AT&T Explores Parting Ways With DirecTV 59
Have Flagship Smartphone Prices Peaked? 85
Fossil Fuel Divestment Has 'Zero' Climate Impact, Says Bill Gates 131
'Big Bang Theory' Sets Staggering Multi-Billion-Dollar HBO Max Streaming Deal 94
Square Wants To Be a Bank But Doesn't Want To Be Taxed Like One 111
Apple Takes On EU's Vestager In Record $14 Billion Tax Fight 72
Netflix Lands 'Seinfeld' Rights in $500M-Plus Deal After Losing 'Friends' and 'The Office' 115
SoftBank Backers Rethink Role in Next Vision Fund on WeWork 23
Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products 74
France Took One Look At Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non' 94
Andrew Yang Announces Universal Basic Income Pilot Program At Debate 379
Loot Boxes in Games Are Gambling and Should Be Banned For Kids, Say UK MPs 65
Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened To Sue Microsoft Over Racist Twitter Bot 84
NYC Mayor and Presidential Hopeful Bill De Blasio Wants a Tax On Robots 88
Someone Just Moved $1B in Bitcoin 34
Streaming Makes Up 80 Percent of the Music Industry's Revenue 32
Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Group is Wildly Profitable Despite Concerns Over Misuse of its Technology, Leaked Financials Show 8
Silicon Valley Heavyweights Fire Up Plan For an Open Lunar Settlement 197
Apple Plans Return of Touch ID and New Cheap iPhone 25
Lab-Testing Startup uBiome Files For Bankruptcy 5
WeWork CEO Returns $5.9 Million For 'We' Trademark To Company After Criticism 66
Google's Paid Search Ads Are 'Shakedown' and 'Ransom', Basecamp CEO says 120
Fraudsters Deepfake CEO's Voice To Trick Manager Into Transferring $243,000 39
Trump Heaps More Tariffs on China, Still No Deal in Sight 359
Google to Pay More Than $150 Million in YouTube Privacy Case 8
Uber CEO Sees Path To Profitability Despite Bumps in the Road 40
Uber, Lyft Propose $21/Hour Minimum Wage For Drivers After Wave Of Protests 103
Australian Who Says He Invented Bitcoin Ordered To Hand Over Up To $5B 27
Telegram Will Launch Its Gram Cryptocurrency By October 31 Or Bust 28
Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say 28
Macron Says France and US Have Reached a Deal To End a Standoff Over a French Tax on Big Internet Companies 106
Standard, a Javascript Style Guide Library With 3M Downloads Per Month, Now Showing Ads When Installed Via NPM 82
Uber's $1-Per-Ride 'Safe Rides Fee' Had Nothing To Do With Safety 51
Members of Facebook's 'Crypto Mafia' Reportedly Getting Cold Feet About Libra Currency 31
Amazon Will No Longer Use Tips To Pay Delivery Drivers' Base Salaries 88
Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV 140
Apple Advises Owners of Its New Credit Card To Keep It Away From Leather, Denim 153
Splunk To Buy Cloud-Monitoring Software Maker SignalFx For $1.05 Billion 6
DoorDash Still Pockets Workers' Tips Almost a Month After It Promised To Stop 81
Terrorists Turn To Bitcoin For Funding, and They're Learning Fast 62
AOL Held Talks To Buy YouTube, Facebook in 2006, Ex-CEO Reveals 52
Amazon Offered Vendors 'Amazon's Choice' Labels In Return For Ad Spending 49
President Trump Is Reportedly Considering Buying Greenland 344
Advertisers Are Blacklisting News Stories That Contain Forbidden Words 77
Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing 116
Working On Microsoft's Cortana Is Laborious and Poorly Paid 19
WeWork IPO Reveals It Lost $1.9 Billion Last Year, and Is Losing About $5,200 Per Customer 59
AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy 51
CenturyLink, FCC Reach Settlement Over 'Cramming' Fees On Phone Bills 19
Ring Told People To Snitch On Their Neighbors In Exchange For Free Stuff 49
Uber Imposes Engineer Hiring Freeze as Losses Mount 84
Verizon To Sell Tumblr To WordPress Owner 18
MoviePass Reportedly Changed Account Passwords To Prevent Users From Seeing Films 49
Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB of Roaming Data 66
Goldman Sachs, Bank of the Rich and Powerful, is Dipping Into Subprime Lending With Apple Card 105
Chase Bank Forgives All Debt Owed By Its Canadian Credit Card Customers 186
Apple Confirms $1 Million Reward For Anyone Who Can Hack An iPhone 65
Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate 85
$10.7 Billion Broadcom-Symantec Enterprise Deal Creates Software Titan 30
Broadcom Close To Buying Symantec's Enterprise Business 27
Even Fixing Wisconsin's Foxconn Deal Won't Fix It, Says State-Requested Report 168
MoviePass Worked Out Great 118
Ask Slashdot: Is a Return To Idealism Possible In Computing? 354
The Fed Is Getting Into the Real-Time Payments Business 121
Libraries Are Fighting To Preserve Your Right To Borrow E-Books 117
Amazon Squeezes Sellers That Offer Better Prices On Walmart 56
Proposed Bill Would Make Monopolies Pay 'Serious' Fines 98
Alphabet Overtakes Apple To Become Most Cash-Rich Company 81
Comcast's 'Unlimited' Mobile Plan Now Costs $20 Extra For HD Video 52
Walmart Could Be Looking To Rival Facebook's Libra With a USD-Pegged Stablecoin Issuance, Patent Filing Shows 56
Just 10 Percent of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Cash 'Could Pay For Green Transition,' Report Says 312
Americans Are Making Phone Farms To Scam Free Money From Advertisers 94
Google Is Testing a $4.99 App Subscription Bundle 49
When Open Source Software Comes With a Few Catches 120
Cisco To Pay $8.6 Million Fine For Selling Hackable Surveillance Tech 37
FTC Says 'You Will Be Disappointed' if You Choose $125 For Equifax Payout 149
Apple Reports Declining Profits and Stagnant Growth, Again 154
The Hottest Phones For the Next Billion Users Aren't Smartphones 95
DoorDash Tip-Skimming Scheme Prompts Class-Action Lawsuit Seeking All Those Tips That Didn't Go To Drivers 117
Experts Say the DOJ Justification For T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Approval Is a Joke 98
US Files Lawsuit Against Bitcoin Exchange That Helped Launder Ransomware Profits 70
Grand Theft Auto Maker Has Paid No UK Corporation Tax in 10 Years 170
IRS Sending Warning Letters To More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders 171
SoftBank Rolls Out Second Tech Megafund, With Apple Among Top Investors 32
The FBI Is Investigating Long Island Iced Tea's BlockChain Pivot 48
Would You Pay $17 To $27 Monthly For All Video Streaming Services Combined? 196
AT&T Loses Nearly 1 Million TV Customers After Raising DirecTV Prices 75
Stock Trading Service Robinhood Admits To Storing Some Passwords in Cleartext 30
From Fitbits To Rokus, Hedge Funds Mine Data For Consumer Habits 60
Facebook Revenue Beats Estimates; Discloses Antitrust Probe 11
The Video Game Industry Can't Go On Like This 219
DoorDash Flip-Flops On Controversial Pay Policy, Says Tips Will Go To Delivery Workers 235
BMW To Treat Apple CarPlay as a Subscription Service and Charge Customers an Annual Fee 211
Delivery Apps Like DoorDash Are Using Your Tips To Pay Workers' Wages 242
Microsoft Pays $25 Million To End US Probe Into Bribery Overseas 52
Tinder Bypasses Google Play Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee 104
Celo Launches Decentralized Open Source Financial Services Prototype 32
Facebook Backpedals From Its Original Ambitious Vision for Libra 77
A California Bill Could Destroy Uber's Unsustainable Business Model 190
Alaska's Engineering Colleges Prepare To Slash Programs, Lay Off Faculty 125
Smart Money Said 'Skip Bitcoin, Bet on Blockchain.' Not Any More 78
Microsoft's Q4 Earnings and 2020 Expectations Are Through the Roof 130
Ex-Microsoft Worker Charged in Alleged Scheme To Steal $10M in Gift Cards and Use Funds To Finance Extravagant Purchases 55
Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000+ Camera Gear For $100 On Prime Day 144
DoNotPay's New Service Auto-Cancels Free Trials 37
Jeff Bezos: I Spend My Billions On Space Because We're Destroying Earth 330
California Awards $70 Million To State Schools To Replace 200 Polluting Diesel School Buses With All-Electric Buses 248
TurboTax Started Charging the Disabled, Unemployed and Students To Make Up For Trump Tax Law 279
FCC Gives ISPs Another $563 Million To Build Rural-Broadband Networks 115
Wall Street Finds Blockchain Hard To Tame After Early Euphoria 51
Swiss Group That's Supposed To Oversee Privacy For Libra Says It Hasn't Heard From Facebook At All 40
Amazon in EU Crosshairs as Vestager Fights Big Tech To the End 32
Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Could Be Misused By Terrorists, Says Treasury Chief Mnuchin 97

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