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From idea to app in Washington’s tech land

It's not the size of the company, but the idea that matters in this contest to award app innovators

Bitcoin Foundation blames Mt. Gox for Bitcoin’s troubles

What Mt. Gox called a bug is actually an underlying problem, the group said

What’s 1 bitcoin worth? Ask Bing

A new tool converts bitcoin to more than 50 currencies

Microsoft’s Power BI for Office 365 Is Official, Ties Data Sources to Excel

DARPA seeks the Holy Grail of search engines

DARPA’s Memex program focuses on domain-specific indexing of public web content

Bitcoin price plunges as Mt. Gox says flaw in protocol allows fraud

The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange said it will suspend withdrawals from bitcoin wallets it holds until the bug is resolved

Trial for alleged Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht set for November

Ulbricht will plead not guilty to charges including narcotics conspiracy and computer hacking

Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings highlight weakness in social network sector

Twitter and LinkedIn showed signs of slowing growth, but Akamai and Alcatel-Lucent had some positive news

LinkedIn introduces, quickly says goodbye to email service that sparked security concerns

The Intro software dropped LinkedIn profile information into mobile emails

Google goes after enterprise with Chromebox for meetings

$999 videoconferencing tool also could boost Google+ Hangouts