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U.S. and European authorities arrest more than a dozen online drug and weapons traders, shut down hundreds of websites, seize bitcoin, gold and silver, etc. As we mentioned yesterday, online drug marketplace Silk Road 2.0 was also shut down.
What (figuratively) sank the Google barges? Fire-safety concerns, reportedly.
SEC opens investigation into GT Advanced Technologies over stock trading as the Apple supplier approached bankruptcy.
Women s advocacy group WAM (Women, Action & the Media), which has a tool to let Twitter users report harassment, teams up with Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter, it s said to be opening an office in Hong Kong.
P.S. The Home Depot hackers stole 53 million email addresses, too.
And speaking of emails, Google study finds phishing is successful 45 percent of the time.
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