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Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother'?
With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by ...
Taiwan charges 2 in failed train, office bombings
Two men have been charged with planting cyanide-tainted bombs on a Taiwan high-speed train and at an office where the head of global electronics ...
SF, NY officials to meet over cellphone thefts
Top law enforcement officials from San Francisco and New York plan to meet with some of the nation's largest smartphone makers next week to help ...
ITC bans iPhone 4 imports
A U.S. trade agency on Tuesday issued a ban on imports of Apple's iPhone 4 and a variant of the iPad 2 after finding the devices violate a patent held ...
Apple poised for hiring spree in Silicon Valley
Apple expects to expand its Silicon Valley workforce by nearly 50 percent during the next three years, signaling the company's faith in its ability ...
Apple enlists Winnie-the-Pooh in e-book argument
An Apple Inc. lawyer used Winnie-the-Pooh and millions of customers too in trying to convince a judge the computer giant did not manipulate electronic ...
'Internship' film focuses on Google's good side
This scene isn't in the movie, but it might have been fitting if "The Internship" had ended with stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson wearing ruby red ...
US blames Apple for 2010 run-up in e-book prices
A U.S. government lawyer opened a civil trial Monday by portraying Apple Inc. as a corporate bully that swaggered into the market for electronic books ...
Apple antitrust suit over e-books set for NY trial
In a civil case where the words of Steve Jobs play prominently, the government and Apple Inc. are set to square off over allegations that Apple Inc.
Microsoft aims to simplify with Windows 8.1
Microsoft is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling ...
SKorea fosters startups as it seeks economic shift
Kwon Sunbeom's future was mapped out. Talented in math and science, he attended a specialized high school and majored in electronic engineering at a ...
Texas plant to make first US-assembled smartphones
Cellphone pioneer Motorola announced Wednesday that it's opening a Texas manufacturing facility that will create 2,000 jobs and produce its new ...
Roku raises $60M from Hearst, News Corp, others
Roku Inc., the streaming video device maker, said Wednesday that it has raised $60 million in its sixth round of funding. Media giant Hearst Corp.
Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668,000
An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers — a functioning 1976 model — has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000). German auction ...
Pandora posts in-line 1Q loss, upbeat sales
Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc. reported higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter, with losses in line with analysts' forecasts, ...
Lenovo says quarterly profit up 90 percent
Computer maker Lenovo Group said Thursday its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded
Republican divisions may hinder party's momentum
A string of unrelated events is highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a united front and take full advantage of ...
Sony mulls hedge fund's entertainment sale idea
Sony's CEO Kazuo Hirai says the electronics giant's board will discuss a proposal by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb to spin off up to 20 percent ...
Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action
Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on ...
Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes
Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate ...
Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle
An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site ...
J.C. Penney posts bigger 1Q loss than expected
The legacy of J.C. Penney's former CEO is being felt at the department-store chain. Penney on Thursday reported that it widened its loss in the first ...
Apple says App Store hit 50 billion downloads
Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that ...
Google's products dig deeper into people's lives
For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer. "Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them ...
Google's music plan part of fresh wave of upgrades
Google Inc. unveiled a streaming music service called All Access that blends songs users have already uploaded to their online libraries with millions ...