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Being in the music blogging business is becoming fraught with danger, as the owners of RnBXclusive.com have just found out, following the seizure of the domain by the Serious Organized Crime Agency in the UK. They haven't just lost their site either, but have been arrested for fraud. So, another day, another piracy-related site closure, but what's interesting here is the message that now greets visitors to the website. You can see… Read More

While we were all paying attention to Steve Jobs stepping down from Apple, Google pulled the plug on Slide, the social networking apps company that it purchased last year for $200 million. The shutdown will result in the termination of nearly all Slide projects Slide operated primarily as an independent company, with Google there to back it up. Leading the way at Slide was Max Levchin, who famously founded PayPal. AllThingsD reports that… Read More

The US Department of Justice has charged the owners of three of the largest Internet gambling sites for violating a cacophony of laws, including anti-gambling laws, money laundering and bank fraud, Reuters reports. The sites include Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and PokerStars. New York prosecutors have issued restraining orders against 76 bank accounts in 14 countries that they say these companies used to launder billions of dollars in… Read More