With April 15 looming, plenty of bitcoin barons have been wondering how to treat their newfound crypto-fortunes. Does it count as capital gains? Is it taxed like a currency? Is it taxed at all? Well, on Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service announced definitively that Bitcoin is property and much be taxed as such.
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Which particular business entity sets out to fail on purpose, and intends to run a charity instead without making some profit to keep it going and growing? None, I suppose, and so the same principle of avoiding defeat while attempting to carve a niche out in this highly competitive world has caused Spotify to put on offer a free, shuffle-based version of its music streaming service on both iOS and Android platforms in the past, and Spotify intends to continue in that particular direction by offering college students in the U.S. a 50% discount when one signs up for a new Premium subscription.
Spotify Premium Is Now 50% Cheaper For US College Students original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Its no secret that BlackBerry could use some money. The company has been hemorrhaging cash for the past few years, and with device sales not expected to recover anytime soon, it has to look towards other options. Ever since BlackBerry Messenger was opened up to other platforms, its user base has swelled to over 85 million. The company now looks to cash in on that. Its banking on the popularity of stickers, and will also offer brands the opportunity to sponsor posts in BBM channels.
BlackBerry Cashes In On BBM With Stickers And Sponsored Posts original content from Ubergizmo. 
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As most of the smartphone world goes ga ga over the HTC One (HTC M8), one ought to remember that the world is a whole lot larger than just one launch region. In fact, folks over in China aren’t too bad off themselves, either, as ZTE has already made an announcement concerning their latest ZTE Nubia X6 phablet as well. Could it be a clever and yet subtle manner of deflecting some of the attention lavished on the new HTC One? Perhaps, or perhaps not, but that is not as important as checking out the hardware specifications right after the jump.
ZTE Nubia X6 Announced In China original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It looks like Zuckerberg and Co. may be looking to make a big push for Facebook Places, and an on-going trial indicates that it could start with Instagram. The folks in Menlo Park are testing the social networks’ own service for adding location info,…
While the whole world is more or less thrilled with the announcement of the HTC One 2014 (aka HTC M8) with us having already taken it out for a spin, one ought to take note that the HTC One 2014 is not the only thing that is happening today to a HTC branded device. In fact, HTC executive Mohammad Versi took to Twitter to reveal that AT&T in the US has already approved the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update for its version of the HTC One mini smartphone.
AT&T HTC One Mini To Receive Android 4.4.2 KitKat Update Soon original content from Ubergizmo. 
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In a bit of a surprise twist to the end of his GPU Technology Conference 2014 (GTU 2014, that is) chat, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang let it be known that … Continue reading
NVIDIA has brought the power of CUDA to mobile, revealing the Jetson TK1 platform at GTC 2014 and billing it as the future of mobile processing like computer vision for … Continue reading
There was much debate over Google’s decision to display marketing and promotional emails in a standalone “Promotions” tab in Gmail. Incoming emails that are deemed to be offering promotions or deals are no longer shown along with the users’ personal emails. An experimental Gmail feature is now being tested which displays these emails as large ads with images.
Gmail Experiment Shows Promotional Emails As Ads original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Look out kid! You’re being attacked by a couple of Imperial Walkers! These impressive balloon animal AT-ATs were created by Balloon Guy Entertainment, who previously blew up a Balloon Bag End from The Hobbit.
What’s that you say? You don’t have a tow cable to take them down? That’s okay, kid, all you need is a pin.
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