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OK, it’s official: The price of Amazon Prime, which offers unlimited two-day shipping and other perks for $79, is increasing to $99 per year. Amazon’s stock was up over 2 percent on Thursday morning. If you’re an Amazon Prime member now and your membership was set to renew before April 17, 2014, you’ll still pay Continue Reading →

Microsoft is planning to release a OneNote for Mac app later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the Mac application is part of a broader effort to expand the features and functionality of OneNote. While Microsoft originally released OneNote more than 10 years ago, the company has largely limited its Continue Reading →

A month ago reports started circulating about a possible Yahoo and Yelp partnership, which on Wednesday is coming to fruition with a collaboration between Yahoo Search and Yelp’s local business reviews. Regardless of which device you’re using, Yelp will now serve up listings, user reviews and star ratings whenever you search for a company or Continue Reading →

Google on Tuesday launched separate add-on stores for its Google Docs and Sheets products. To browse add-ons directly without navigating to the stores first, just hit “Get add-ons” in the Add-ons menu of any document or spreadsheet. Add-ons in the stores are created by developer partners that give users more features in their documents and Continue Reading →

Robocoin, the bi-directional Bitcoin ATM, is ramping up its nascent footprint — with launches planned for 10 more global locations. The company said on Tuesday it will be shipping its first Bitcoin ATMs to two more U.S. locations — Boston and Seattle — and also ramping up globally, with machines heading for Israel, Ireland, Singapore, Continue Reading →

Google on Monday launched the Google Apps Referral Program in the US and Canada. The referral program lets you share Google Apps with other businesses, and pocket a $15 bonus for each new user that signs up. Here’s the fine print: You can refer an unlimited number of customers. You’re rewarded for each referral customer’s Continue Reading →

Microsoft finalized its upcoming Windows 8.1 Update recently, but the company appears to be sharing it a little early on Friday. While the software maker is expected to release the update officially in April, Microsoft has only detailed a few of the features in the update and has not yet provided an official release date. Continue Reading →

Twitter, the microblogging service that held an initial public offering last year, paid $36 million to acquire 900 patents from IBM according to a filing. The agreement, which was was signed in December and announced in January without financial details, resolved a dispute that prompted IBM to write to Twitter about possible infringement of at Continue Reading →

This story just keeps getting weirder. As Dorian Nakamoto, the man fingered by Newsweek as Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin, was leading reporters around Los Angeles on a wild goose chase and giving his story to the AP, a message appeared on an Internet message board, which simply said “I am not Dorian Continue Reading →

Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed. He’s wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks, without shoes, like he has left the house in a hurry. His hair is unkempt, and he has the thousand-mile stare of someone who has gone weeks without sleep. Continue Reading →