TOKYO -- The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.The exchange's CEO Mark Karpeles appeared before Japanese TV news cameras, bowing deeply. He said a ...
NEW YORK -- Mark Zuckerberg, known for his outsized ambitions for Facebook, is applying a similar long-term vision to bringing the Internet to the billons of people around the world who don't already have access.The 29-year-old CEO of Facebook Inc. discussed long-term plans for a world in which ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have failed to settle their latest patent dispute despite a daylong meeting between top Samsung executives and Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted by a mediator earlier this month.The companies detailed the lack of progress in a court filing ...
LOS ANGELES -- With a single behemoth purchase, Comcast is creating a dominant force in American entertainment and presenting federal regulators with an equally outsized quandary: How should they handle a conglomerate that promises to improve cable TV and Internet service to millions of homes ...
At the international airport in Sochi, Russia, the entry point for thousands of athletes, spectators and world leaders bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a state-of-the-art security system made by a Silicon Valley company is keeping watch.Artec Group, a 3-D camera tech company founded in the ...
NEW YORK -- It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.They did. And in the decade since, so have more than a billion people, not just American college students but also farmers in ...
