this week in tech (march 22-28, 2014)
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This Week in TechMarch 22 -28, 2014
Just a month after purchasing WhatsApp, Facebook announced that it has aquired virtual reality gaming startup Oculus VR for $2 billion.
More than 30 years after the operating system’s initial release, Microsoft published the original source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0.
Mozilla announced that Brendan Eich, JavaScript creator and longtime Mozilla CTO, will become its new CEO.
The IRS determined that virtual currency, such as Bitcoin, should be taxed as property rather than “real currency.”
Basecamp announced that it was the victim of a blackmail-fueled DDoS attack following mass downtime of their app on March 24.
A week after it banned Twitter, reports suggest that the Turkish government has added YouTube to its list of banned websites.