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| Bitcoin Was the 'Victim of Its Own Success,' Not DDOS Attack | | Bitcoin, the world's most popular virtual currency, yesterday took a huge nosedive — from its all-time-high of $265 to as low as $105 — but the reason is not a DDOS as some have speculated. Instead, the leading Bitcoing exchange, Mt.Gox, claims that Bitcoin was "a victim of its own success," with the lag from too much interest in the currency causing many investors to sell, which lead to a market panic.
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| IDC: Windows 8 'Exacerbated' PC Shipment Slowdown | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:21 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Worldwide PC shipments plunged 13.9% in the first quarter according to IDC, which noted that Microsoft's introduction of Windows 8 hurt overall sales by confusing consumers. "At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market," Bob O’Donnell, IDC Program VP Clients and Displays, said in a statement.
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| Twitter Shuts Down Ribbon's In-Stream Payment Option Hours After Launch | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:02 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Ribbon, a San Francisco payments company, made headlines early Wednesday with the launch of a new in-stream payment option for Twitter that lets users buy and sell items directly through the news feed on the social network. Now, just a couple hours later, Twitter has killed off the feature. Hany Rashwan, the co-founder and CEO of Ribbon, told Mashable that the feature was pulled without warning in less than two hours.
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| Bitcoin Just Took a Major Nosedive - But Why? | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:33 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Bitcoin, the world’s most popular virtual currency, dropped from a high of $265 to a low of $156 in a period of six hours Wednesday afternoon. Pretty much everyone the Daily Dot has spoken to recently involved in Bitcoin — buyers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and others — believed a “downward correction” was coming. It’s come. It is tempting to look for a dramatic reason for a decline like this.
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| Now You Can Buy and Sell Items Directly in Your Twitter Feed With Ribbon | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:59 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| UPDATE: Twitter has shut down Ribbon's new payment processing feature. We've reached out to Twitter for comment and will update when we hear back. Twitter's CEO has expressed an interest in embracing ecommerce in the past, but it looks like one startup may have just beat it to the punch. Ribbon, a San Francisco payments company, announced a new feature Wednesday that lets merchants offer an in-stream payment option on Twitter.
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| Samsung Begins Ad Blitz for the Galaxy S 4 | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:58 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Samsung has launched its first ads for the Galaxy S 4, its would-be iPhone 5-killer. Don't expect any Apple bashing, though. These are straight-up lifestyle and feature-focused spots. The ads, which broke in the Netherlands, show youngish people using their S4s to do now-mundane things like take and send photos. However, one spot shows off the model's Group Play feature that lets you share media (including music) with people around you.
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| Tumblr Downsizes Editorial Staff as It Eyes Profitability | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:02 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Fourteen months ago, Tumblr hired an editor-in-chief and executive editor to launch Storyboard, a Tumblr that pledged to chronicle the ideas, themes and people of the blogging network.
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| Facebook Expands Ad Targeting Based on Purchases | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:40 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Do you buy a lot of children's breakfast cereal? Then you might see some new Facebook ads for those products cropping up on Facebook thanks to a new program from the company called Partner Categories.
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| Old Spice Gets Its Groove Back With a Couple of Hilarious Ads | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:30 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Old Spice's marketing efforts of late have been hit or miss, but the brand seems to have found its groove again with a couple of new ads for its bar soap that mock conventions of '80s-era ads for similar products. In the ad above, a guy takes a shower at the gym and gets tossed a basketball, which he cuts open to reveal watermelon meat and a bar of soap.
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| One Year After Facebook Acquisition, Instagram Delivers on Its Promise | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:01 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| A year ago this week, Facebook surprised the world by announcing an agreement to acquire Instagram for a whopping $1 billion one month shy of its initial offering on the stock market. At the time, Instagram was a comparatively small but beloved mobile app for editing and sharing photos with no discernible revenue model.
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| General Motors is Advertising on Facebook Again | | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:59 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| General Motors, whose decision to pull advertising from Facebook days before that company's IPO last year, has returned to Facebook with a test program for its Chevrolet Sonic. "Chevrolet is testing a number of mobile advertising solutions, including Facebook," Chris Perry, VP for U.S. marketing of the Chevrolet, wrote in an email to The New York Times.
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