Windows client and server users in Croatia may see discrepancies in currency data due to their country recently joining the Eurozone. Microsoft has issued a workaround as is working on a patch.
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Apple sales have resumed in Turkey after the Cupertino company halted them due to a currency crash. Unfortunately, due to the devaluation of the Turkish lira a sizeable price hike has been introduced.
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. The move has been welcomed by many and protested by others citing a lack of confidence in the unstable currency.
The price of bitcoin briefly reached $40,000 on Thursday before retreating a bit. It's not clear what will happen to the price going forward but it has certainly piqued people's interest.
In a surprise move, Valve has announced that it is making games much cheaper in select regions such as Bangladesh and Pakistan. The company has also introduced support for more currencies.
The bitcoin cryptocurrency has reached a new high of $1,700. Several analysts have remained optimistic saying that even if a correction hits the price the overall trend is an upward one.
The first peer-reviewed study on Bitcoin is out but is expected to be published in May. It investigates participants knowledge about Bitcoin, why some don't use it, and its barriers.
OnePlus says that it is currently selling its handsets at a loss in the EU due to the continued decline of the euro - and as a result, it must increase the cost of its handsets there by up to €50.
Apple's Russian store is back online after a brief absence but shoppers will likely be dismayed to find out that the company's products now cost approximately 35% more than they did last week.
eBay CEO John Donahoe has suggested that the growing digital crypto-currency Bitcoin could be offered as a new currency option for PayPal balances in the foreseeable future.
Microsoft began rolling out the Xbox 360 dashboard update that converts Microsoft Points to local currencies on Monday morning for all users following a beta that
Microsoft has announced that it will officially retire its Microsoft Points system on the Xbox 360 to a system based on real local currency with the next Xbox 360 software update.
Microsoft has revealed the cost of Xbox One games in the U.K. to be £49.99, the same price as the cost of newly released Xbox 360 games. The company previously announced the U.S. price of $59.99.
The public beta for the new Xbox 360 Dashboard will convert your current balance of Microsoft Points into real world currency, although the conversion doesn't line up to the converted game prices
In what may be the first case of its kind, federal authorities have seized Bitcoins, the all-digital currency, from a South Carolina man for breaching the Controlled Substances Act in the USA.
According to a report, Microsoft is finally gearing up to properly kill off their Microsoft Points system in favor of real currency and gift cards that can be used across many stores.
WordPress has added functionality today, allowing bloggers across the world to pay using the digital Bitcoin currency while side-stepping issues such as PayPal being unavailable or limited.
After the government in Argentina passed a ruling to limit dependency on the US dollar, PayPal became the easiest method of converting. As a result, the functionality is to be pulled in Argentina.
Facebook's stock prices reached an all-time low on Tuesday's trading, having declined 43% since their initial availability in May. Stocks were trading at just over $20 on the markets during the day.
Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman, revealed at Mobile World Congress that the company once considered launching its own digital peer-to-peer currency - Google Bucks.
Security researchers Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller have found a way to exploit an unpatched QuickTime vulnerability to steal Linden Dollars from users in the Second Life virtual world. Dai Zovi (the hacker behind...
Gaming Open Market closes all currency exchanges but one; files claims with PayPal and the FBI. The massively multiplayer online game currency exchange Gaming Open Market will be closing its doors to...
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