Google Confirms Antitrust Review of Waze Deal
Google on Saturday confirmed that it has been contacted by lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission over the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of the mobile navigation company Waze, which closed in ...
How Web mail providers leave door open for NSA surveillance
Protecting users' e-mail privacy from the National Security Agency and other intelligence services means using encryption. But with the exception of Google, few companies do everything they can. — ...
Project Loon: Google's biggest obstacle isn't technology. It's politics
The ballon-powered network know as Loon may be one of Google's famed moon shots, but the biggest issues facing the project are grounded right here on Earth. This won't just be a major technological f...
RIP Snapjoy: The Dropbox-Acquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down
Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as i...
In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer's Gmail
The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunte...
Walmart to Discount iPhone 5 By $60 Beginning Saturday
On Saturday, Walmart will begin offering the iPhone 5 at a $60 discount (from $189 to $129) and the iPhone 4S at a $50 discount (from $89 to $39), reports Mashable. The prices are permanent, availabl...
In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on Without A Warrant
The Guardian published a new batch of secret leaked FISA court and NSA documents yesterday, which detail the particulars of how government has been accessing Americans' emails without a warrant, in vi...
Yelp now matches photos and reviews by the same user on desktop and mobile
Yelp today announced a small but noteworthy improvement to its service: it will now match reviews and photos made by the same user. As a result, visual and textual content will now appear together, b...