An anonymous, underground drug trafficking web site Silk Road (http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/after-silk-road/) has been busted and the founder has been arrested, effectively shutting down a $1 billion+ revenue business after two years. And in softer tech news, Instagram has revealed plans to put ads in the stream (http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/instagram-starts-showing-in-feed-video-and-image-ads-to-us-users/) over the next couple months. Meanwhile, BlackBerry continues to be in shambles, with BBM for Android and iOS delayed (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/22/bbm-android-ios-launch/) and the Z30 reportedly not going on sale (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/18/blackberry-z30/) in the company's home country of Canada on Rogers.
We discuss all this and more in this week's episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast (http://techcrunch.com/tag/gadgets-podcast/), featuring John Biggs (https://twitter.com/johnbiggs), Matt Burns (https://twitter.com/mjburnsy), Jordan Crook (https://twitter.com/jordanrcrook), Chris Velazco (https://twitter.com/chrisvelazco), Darrell Etherington (https://twitter.com/drizzled), and a special guest appearance by Chris Nesi (https://twitter.com/NesiDoesIt).
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Source: This Week On The Gadgets Podcast: Silk Road, Instagram Ads, BBM, And The Z30 (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/o79csm00yww/)