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Top Stories of the Day // February 14, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 14, 2014

Japanese Internet Giant Rakuten Acquires Viber For $900M

Rakuten, one of Japan's largest Internet companies, has announced that it will acquire Cyprus-based messaging platform and app maker Viber for $900 million.... read more

Silk Road 2 Hacked, Over 4,000 Bitcoin Allegedly Stolen

Silk Road 2 moderator Defcon reported in a forum post that hackers have used a transaction malleability exploit to hack the marketplace. The hackers stole over... read more

Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options

Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual "male" and "female" options, users can choose from up... read more

Google’s Valentine’s Day Doodle Features Six Tales Of Real Romance

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Want A Neat Overview Of What’s Going On In Wearables? Point Your Eyes Right Here…

A wearable tech research and consulting firm has put together a neat overview of the nascent space -- tracking the number of devices already in existence; areas... read more

Bicycle Startup Blaze Pulls In Investment From Index Ventures And Sir Richard Branson

London-based Blaze has officially launched it's innovative front bike light with a laser projection, and starts shipping worldwide at the end of this month. The... read more

Yahoo Acquires Technical Recruiting Startup Distill

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TOP VIDEOS

Twitter's Dick Costolo On What It Takes To Be A Good CEO

2013 was a very good year for Twitter, so it's only fitting that Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo took home the award... read more

TC Cribs: Zoosk, Where A Tunnel Of Love Leads To Coders, Cupcakes, And Puppies

It's just about Valentine's Day, which means love is in the air, even here among the workaholics in the tech industry.... read more

Keen On… The Hippies: How The Counterculture Ruined The Internet

The Internet has been getting a lot of criticism lately. But there are few people better able to coherently explain... read more

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