The Almighty Buck Stories for 2020

Coinbase To Suspend Trading in XRP 44
Bitcoin Surges 50% in Just One Month. CNN Ponders 'Insane' Record Run 190
VISA Continues Pornhub Ban, To Allow Card Use On Some of Its Parent's Sites 83
Telegram, Nearing 500 Million Users, To Begin Monetization 54
US Approves NYSE Listing Plan To Cut Out Wall Street Middlemen 51
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload 'Pirate' Movies and File DMCA Notices 53
Elon Musk Tweeted About a Bitcoin Rival. It Soared 20% 43
RubyGems Catches Two Packages Trying to Steal Cryptocurrency with Clipboard Hijacking 14
Are Cryptocurrencies Becoming Mainstream Investments? 135
Battery Prices Have Fallen 88 Percent Over the Last Decade 159
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
Australian 'Super Seaweed' Supplement To Reduce Cattle Gas Emissions Wins $1 Million International Prize 72
'Evil Mobile Emulator Farms' Used To Steal Millions From US and EU Banks 59
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once 185
Boring Company Proposes Massive Vegas Expansion Following Monorail Bankruptcy 128
Bitcoin Breaks Above $20,000 for the First Time Ever 76
40 Girls Do Porn Victims Are Suing Pornhub For $1 Million Each 313
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
Reddit Is Buying TikTok Rival Dubsmash 20
Big Tech Firms To Face 6% Fines If Breach New EU Content Rules 42
MasterCard, VISA To Stop Processing Payments On Pornhub 114
Hyundai To Acquire Boston Dynamics For Nearly $1 Billion 20
Pornhub Might Lose Visa and Mastercard After NYT Exposé 157
SpaceX Gets $886 Million From FCC To Subsidize Starlink In 35 States 129
S&P Dow Jones Indices To Launch Cryptocurrency Indexes In 2021 42
Trump To Congress: Repeal Section 230 Or I'll Veto Military Funding 511
South Africa's Lottery Probed As 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Drawn 195
Italy Fines Apple $12 Million For Unfair Claims About iPhone Water Resistance 68
Tesla Whistleblower Martin Tripp Ordered To Pay $400,000 To Settle Hacking Case 60
Bloomberg Columnist: Bitcoin is Part of a Real Monetary Revolution 152
Struggling Electric Jet Startup Zunum Sues Boeing For Fraud and Misuse of Trade Secrets 23
GM To Leverage Customer Data In New Insurance Business 45
Elon Musk Overtakes Bill Gates To Grab World's Second-Richest Ranking 144
Amazon Partners With the US Government To Stop the Sale of Counterfeit Goods 72
China Requires Real Names, Bans Spending By Teens In New Curbs On Livestreaming 57
Apple Makes Another Concession On App Store Fees 19
Is Bitcoin's Growth Driven By Speculative Investors? 130
Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack 10
SoftBank CEO Says He Doesn't Understand Bitcoin, and Watching the Price Fluctuate Was 'Distracting My Focus On My Own Business' 93
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster Says Disney Is Withholding Book Royalties 279
Google Pay Gets a Major Redesign With a New Emphasis on Personal Finance 17
'Profitboss' Is Saving Restaurants From Heavy Delivery App Fees 27
Tesla To Be Added To S&P 500 Index 56
Another Cryptocurrency Heist, This Time $2 Million Stolen from Akropolis 60
PayPal Now Lets All US Users Buy, Sell and Hold Cryptocurrency 41
Microsoft Engineer Gets Nine Years For Stealing $10 Million From Microsoft 41
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Has Applied To Become a Citizen of Cyprus 179
Google Photos Tests Locking Color Pop Behind a Google One Paywall 21
Debt Collectors Will Soon Be Allowed To Reach You By Text Or On Facebook 92
Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President 245
Silk Road Bitcoins Worth $1 Billion Change Hands After Seven Years 73
Spotify Will Boost Music In Exchange For Cut of Royalties 36
Twilio Wraps $3.2 Billion Purchase of Segment After Warp-Speed Courtship 9
A Few Trick-or-Treaters in Canada Receive a Surprising Treat: Bitcoin 37
'Don't Even Try Paying With Cash in China' 146
Sony Close To Buying Crunchyroll For Nearly $1 Billion 19
Facebook Targeted In UK Legal Action Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal 23
NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That's Worth $10,000 Quadrillion 192
SpaceX Starlink Public Beta Begins: It's $99 a Month Plus $500 Up Front 236
US Grid-Battery Costs Dropped 70% Over 3 Years 92
Patreon Is Banning QAnon, Joining Facebook, YouTube and Others 172
Why Intel's Stock Just Dropped 10% After Reporting Earnings 57
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity In History 325
Amazon Launches Program To Pay Consumers For Their Data On Non-Amazon Purchases 51
GM To Invest More Than $2 Billion In US Manufacturing To Increase Electric Vehicle Production 67
Billionaire CEO of Software Company Indicted For Alleged $2 Billion Tax Evasion Schemes 75
Nikola Stock Falls 14 Percent After CEO Downplays Badger Truck Plans 20
Microsoft Will Share Digital Revenues With GameStop On Every Xbox It Sells 29
Robinhood Estimates Hackers Infiltrated Almost 2,000 Accounts 19
Elon Musk Cuts Price of Tesla Model S To $69,420 95
China Starts Digital Yuan Trial By Giving $30 To 50,000 People 55
Netflix Ends Free Trials In the US 35
iPhone 12 Lineup Does Not Ship With a Power Adapter; Apple Begins Selling 20W USB-C Adapter for $19 83
Is Digital Banking the Wave of the Future? 117
Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call 56
Apple Pays $288,000 To White-Hat Hackers Who Had Run of Company's Network 24
AT&T Offloading DirecTV Could Be a 'Fire Sale' As Company Weighs Low Bids 59
US Explores Curbs On Ant Group, Tencent Payment Systems 66
Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To 3 Scientists For Work On Black Holes 56
Facebook Revenue Chief Says Ad-Supported Model Is 'Under Assault' Amid Apple Privacy Changes 142
Cisco Ordered To Cough Up $2 Billion Plus Royalties After Ripping Off Biz's Cybersecurity Patents 31
A Literal Child and His Mom Sue Nintendo Over 'Joy-Con Drift' 104
Nvidia CEO Anticipates Supply Shortages For the RTX 3080 and 3090 To Last Until 2021 98
SEC Sues John McAfee Over Promoting Cryptocurrency On Twitter 29
How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market 26
Google To Pay Publishers $1 Billion Over Three Years For Their News 26
Controversial Data Firm Palantir Fetches Market Value of Nearly $22 Billion In Its Debut On the NYSE 28
Seattle Approves Minimum Wage For Uber and Lyft Drivers 122
Denmark: We Can Slash CO2 By 70% In a Decade And Still Have Welfare 94
Elon Musk: Tesla May Be Overvalued Today, But I Think It'll Be Worth More In 5 Years 251
Police Charity Bought An iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave It To Cops 92
America's IRS Wants Cryptocurrency Exchanges Declared on Tax Forms 100
Universal Basic Income Gains Support In South Korea After COVID-19 132
Jeff Bezos Is Opening His First Tuition-Free Bezos Academy Preschool, Where Each Child 'Will Be the Customer' 114
Google Is Pulling the Plug On Paid Chrome Extensions Over the Next Year 18
Shell Reportedly To Slash Oil and Gas Production Costs To Focus More On Renewables 61
Picture-In-Picture Mode On iOS 14 No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website Unless You Pay For Premium 63
CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested By FBI, Facing Fraud Charges 26
Is Apple One a Bargain? It's Complicated 46
Piratebay.Org Sold For $50,000 At Auction, ThePiratebay.com Up Next 27
ESA Awards $153 Million Contract For Its First Planetary Defense Mission 20
Verizon Acquires Tracfone In a Deal Worth More Than $6 Billion 19
Boston Dynamics CEO Talks Profitability and the Company's Next Robots 24
ARM Co-Founder Starts 'Save Arm' Campaign To Keep Independence Amid $40 Billion Nvidia Deal 61
Apple Loosens App Store Rules That Hurt Streaming Games, Classes 13
Facebook Will Pay Users To Log Off Before 2020 Election 67
SoftBank Unmasked As 'Nasdaq Whale' That Stoked Tech Rally 82
Pentagon Says It Will Stick With Microsoft For $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 25
US Will Not Pay Millions In Dues To WHO This Year 186
Swiss Region To Take Cryptocurrency For Tax Payments In 2021 22
Russia May Force Apple To Reduce Its App Store Tax To 20% 87
Elon Musk Passes Mark Zuckerberg To Become Third-Richest Person In the World 133
AT&T, Ready For Your $30 Billion DirecTV Haircut? 30
US Tech Stocks Are Now Worth More Than the Entire European Stock Market 77
'We Must Take a Stand': Portland's Iconic Powell's Books Says It Won't Sell Books On Amazon Anymore 116
Salesforce To Join Dow Jones, Replacing Exxon, As Tech Rises, Energy Falls 45
Amazon Go's Cashierless Tech May Come To Whole Foods As Soon As Next Year 77
Facebook To Pay More Than $110 Million In Back Taxes In France 42
Palantir, Tech's Next Big IPO, Lost $580 Million In 2019 52
Burger King Brags About Exploiting Twitch To Advertise To Kids For Cheap 29
WordPress Founder Claims Apple Cut Off Updates To His Free App Because It Wants 30 Percent 91
Former Uber Exec Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach 13
AMC Is Reopening Theaters Today With 15-Cent Tickets 90
Germany Begins Universal Basic Income Trial With People Getting $1,400 a Month For 3 Years 380
Apple Is Now Worth $2 Trillion, Punctuating Big Tech's Grip 60
Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable 'Franchise Fees' 111
'All Of My TikTok Followers Are Fake' 79
AT&T To Lay Off 600 At HBO and Warner Bros. After Revenue Decline 61
Tim Cook Hits Billionaire Status With Apple Nearing $2 Trillion 87
Richard Stallman Discusses Privacy Risks of Bitcoin, Suggests 'Something Much Better' 168
Some Cities are Combining Basic Incomes with Local Currenices 88
Government's PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says 17
TikTok Ban: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions With ByteDance Beginning September 20 217
Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Data 67
FCC Lowers Some Prison Phone Rates After Blaming States For High Prices 39
Blizzard Workers Share Salaries In Revolt Over Wage Disparities 210
Google To Buy Stake In ADT In Home Security Push For $450 Million 31
An Amazon Ad Prompted Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller To Block In-App Purchases of Kindle Books On iOS 108
Amazon To Invest $10 Billion In Space-Based Internet System 52
Apple Surpasses Saudi Aramco To Become World's Most Valuable Company 36
Spotify CEO: Musicians Can No Longer Release Music Only 'Once Every 3-4 Years' 105
Facebook Says Apple's iOS 14 Changes Could Hurt Its Ad Targeting 25
Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank 38
Alphabet Reports First Revenue Decline In Company History 10
Apple Halved App Store Fee To Get Amazon Prime Video On Devices 11
Apple Does Not Keep the 30% Commission On a Refund [Update] 60
Offshore Wind In Europe Won't Need Subsidies Much Longer 83
Decimal Point Error Causes Etsy To Massively Overcharge For Shipping Labels 43
Who Still Needs the Office? US Companies Start Cutting Space 158
Twitter Is Considering Subscriptions Amid An Advertising Slump 68
Tesla Turns a Profit For the Fourth Quarter In a Row, Chooses Austin For Next Gigafactory 163
Russian Elite Given Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Since April 80
Bay Area Tech Workers Consider Moving Amid Layoff Fears 141
Banks in US Can Now Offer Crypto Custody Services, Regulator Says 50
'World's Most Wanted Man' Involveld In Bizarre Attempt To Buy Hacking Tools 27
Ajit Pai Urges States To Cap Prison Phone Rates After He Helped Kill FCC Caps 106
Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000 46
South Korea Commits $61 Billion For 'Net-Zero Society' By 2025 57
Is It Time To Kill the Penny? 36
Apple Supplier Foxconn To Invest $1 Billion In India 13
Charter's Hidden 'Broadcast TV' Fee Now Adds $197 a Year To Cable Bills 69
Jack Dorsey Donates $3 Million To US Mayors For Universal Basic Income Pilot Programs In 15 Cities 216
Power Pioneer Invents New Battery That's 90% Cheaper Than Lithium-Ion 138
Amazon Will Pay $135,000 To Settle Alleged US Sanction Violations 37
More Pre-Installed Malware Has Been Found In Budget US Smartphones 34
Portland Approves 10% Cap On Fees That Food Delivery Apps Can Charge Restuarants 84
TikTok Traders Are Pumping Joke Cryptocurrency Dogecoin -- and the Price is Up 95% 29
Apple's UK Stores Paid $7.7M in Tax Despite $1.7B in Sales 153
Nvidia Eclipses Intel As Most Valuable US Chipmaker 31
Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results 147
US Online Grocery Sales Hit Record $7.2 Billion In June 36
Next-Gen Console Games Will Be $10 More Expensive 89
India's Richest Man Takes On Zoom 28
Dish Buys Prepaid Carrier Boost Mobile For $1.4 Billion 4
Someone Mysteriously Sent Almost $1 Billion In Bitcoin 147
YouTube TV Jacks Up Pricing To Become Most Expensive Cable TV Alternative 154
Samsung Is Reportedly Working On a More Affordable Galaxy Fold 41
Hey Email App Open To All After Apple 'Definitively' Approves It 30
PayPal, Venmo To Roll Out Crypto Buying and Selling, Says Report 22
Wirecard Says Missing $2.1 Billion Never Existed, Rips Up Earlier Accounts 82
Robinhood Changes Trading App After 20-Year-Old's Suicide 175
Wirecard CEO Markus Braun Resigns as Accounting Scandal Batters Shares 22
German Payments Group Wirecard Says $2.1 Billion of Cash is Missing 44
South African Bank To Replace 12 Million Cards After Employees Stole Master Key 36
Why Expanding Highways Makes Traffic Worse 267
A Small US Town is Now Printing Its Own Currency 142
The US Government Just Paid a Crypto Startup to Explore Digital Dollars 49
Crypto Exchange Quadriga Was a Fraud and Founder Was Running Ponzi Scheme, Regulator Says 58
3M Sues Price-Gougers Who Used Amazon To Sell Masks At 1,800% Markup 82
15,000-Square-Foot Las Vegas Doomsday Wellness Bunker For Sale For $18 Million 71
Tesla Joins 4-Digit Club, Share Price Cracks $1,000 73
Apple Becomes First US Company To Hit $1.5 Trillion In Market Value 56
Brave Browser Mistake Adds Its Referrer Code For Cryptocurrency Sites 26
COVID-19 Crippled Movie Theaters and That Could Force Streamers To Be More Transparent About Viewership Data 69
Dyson Shares New Photos and Videos of Its Canceled Electric SUV 60
Frontier Users Must Pay 'Rental' Fee For Equipment They Own Until December 56
$350M 'Quant Fund' Played the Stock Market Using Real-Time Data -- Then 2020 Happened 72
Amazon Sellers Are Marking Products As 'Collectible' To Get Around Price Gouging Rules 60
Michigan State University Network Breached In Ransomware Attack 8
Apple Assisting Authorized Repair Shops With COVID-Related Expenses 13
Jack Dorsey Is Giving Andrew Yang $5 Million To Build the Case for Universal Basic Income 271
Even If You're Trying To Avoid Grubhub By Calling Your Favorite Restaurant Directly, Grubhub Could Still Be Charging It A Fee 106
Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets Can Get Hacked Too 23
Andrew Yang's Nonprofit Helps Fund Five-Year, $500-a-Month Basic Income Experiment 67
Supercomputers Breached Across Europe To Mine Cryptocurrency 43
US Retail Sales Plunged a Record 16 Percent In April As Virus Hit 24
Jeff Bezos Could Become World's First Trillionaire 280
TSMC To Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory In Arizona 56
France To Go Ahead With Digital Tax This Year Regardless of Possible International Deal 28
Ohio Stops Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After Hacker Targets Its Website 247
JPMorgan Extends Banking Services To Bitcoin Exchanges 15
Kickstarter Loses Nearly 40 Percent of Its Workforce After Layoffs and Buyouts 61
US e-Commerce Sales Jump 49 Percent In April, Led By Online Grocery 10
Facebook Will Pay $52 Million In Settlement With Moderators Who Developed PTSD On the Job 77
Uber Makes Takeover Approach To Grubhub 18
Telegram Abandons Its TON Blockchain Platform 26
Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials 37
Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf 36
It Happened: Bitcoin Just Experienced Third Halving In Its History 52
Bitcoin Crashes as Halving Hype Loses Impetus Over the Weekend 139
Cognizant Expects To Lose Between $50 Million and $70 Million Following Ransomware Attack 20
Samsung To Launch a Samsung Pay Debit Card This Summer 13
Oil Crash Busted Broker's Computers and Inflicted Big Losses 87
Finland's 2-Year Test of Universal Basic Income Concludes that it Doesn't Seem To Disincentivise Working and Benefits Recipients' Mental and Financial Wellbeing 560
Amazon Told Workers Paid Sick Leave Law Doesn't Cover Warehouses 91
Cloudflare CEO Now a Billionaire on Stay-at-Home Streaming Surge 12
Wink Smart Home Users Have One Week To Subscribe Or Be Shut Off 140
Samsung Heir Apologizes For Corruption and Union-Busting Scandals 18
The Average Household Will Surpass ISP's 1TB Data Caps Within 3 Years, Study Finds 139
Airbnb Is Laying Off a Quarter of Its Workforce 89
Frontier Will Charge Up To $89 For Social Distancing On Flights 124
ICANN Halts $1.1 Billion Sale of .Org Registry 42
Amazon Sales Surge But Bezos Says Coronavirus Costs Could Hit $4 Billion 53
Facebook's WhatsApp Eyes Lending Feature in India 7
US Spending On Tech Booms Even As Overall Purchasing Declines 58
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says 'Guaranteed Income' Is Worth Considering For Coronavirus Recovery 367
Investors, Startup Founders in India Pool $13M To Fund Projects That Fight Coronavirus 12
Verizon, Comcast Will Not Cancel Service Through June Due To Coronavirus 12
Startups Pursue 'Free Money' With Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash 100
Trump Threatens To Block Aid For US Post Office If It Does Not Raise Prices 292
AT&T's Randall Stephenson To Retire As CEO 25
Drugmaker Tripled the Price of a Pill as it Pursued Coronavirus Use 85
Facebook Invests $5.7B in India's Reliance Jio 5
Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements On Its Customers' Websites 116
Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos 27
Boom In Home Electronics Sales Shows Signs of Peaking 7
Uber Argues 'Fraud' Absolves It From Paying Star Engineer's $179 Million Fine 41
Ticketmaster Preparing Refund Plan For Thousands of Postponed Shows 57
Alibaba To Invest $28 Billion In Cloud Services After Coronavirus Boosted Demand 21

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