The cryptocurrency market has fallen under intense pressure during Q1 of 2018, with Bitcoin down just over 50% from the start of the year. Many Altcoins have also seen their fair share of declines, with the biggest losers correcting upwards of 90% from all-time highs. Q1 was packed with action and drama including exchange hacks,…

As allegations increase against Backpage, founders have become big political donors in Arizona The indictment, returned by a grand jury that spent at least 14 months listening to evidence, lists 50 specific instances where ads were alleged to have been used to facilitate prostitution. It also summarized the experiences of 17 victims trafficked through the…

► April 6: FBI raids Backpage founder’s home as classified listing site shut down The indictment instead said Backpage only wanted to create the perception that it was attempting to stop the selling of children for sex. “(T)he reality is that Backpage has allowed such ads to be published while declining — for financial reasons…

The dot-com bubble of the 1990s is popularly viewed as a period of crazy excess that ended with hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth being destroyed. What’s less often discussed is how all the cheap capital of the boom years helped fund the infrastructure upon which the most important internet innovations would be built…

The dot-com bubble of the 1990s is popularly viewed as a period of crazy excess that ended with hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth being destroyed. What’s less often discussed is how all the cheap capital of the boom years helped fund the infrastructure upon which the most important internet innovations would be built…