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February 8, 2014, 5:30 PM

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Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Mt. Gox suspends bitcoin withdrawals (temporarily?), market falls amid concerns of impropriety — The other shoe may have dropped for embattled Mt. Gox, the world's third-largest bitcoin exchange by volume. Last night Mt. Gox published a message on its website alerting users that it will be temporarily suspending bitcoin withdrawals.

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Owen Good / Kotaku:

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The Coinbase Blog:

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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

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Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal:

Programmatic ad tech plaform PubMatic planning IPO, aiming for a valuation of over $1B — Ad Platform PubMatic Working on IPO — PubMatic Inc., which automates the buying and selling of digital advertising space, has tapped bankers for a potential initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said.

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Mozilla launches Accounts, an improved Sync feature, and a customizable UI to Firefox Aurora — Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser …

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Business Insider:

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