Verizon Communications Inc. today completed its acquisition of the operating business of Yahoo! Inc…
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Microsoft axes 1,200 jobs, exits display ad business
About 1,200 jobs at Microsoft will be impacted…
Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4 billion
When Steve Jobs released the first iPhone in June 2007…
In open letter to Obama, Apple, Google, others urge Patriot Act not be renewed
Apple is one of ten tech giants to once again call on the US Government not to reauthorize the Patriot Act…
Apple is the new Sony, Google is the new Microsoft, and; Facebook is the new AOL
Apple’s failure to understand services that remains its critical weakness…
Is Apple’s next big thing search?
Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask Network, AOL, DuckDuckGo, and even Dogpile…
Apple, Google, others call for government surveillance reform
Eight U.S. technology giants are making a joint appeal to reform government…
Google’s 8th-ranked D.C. lobbying machine flexes new political power
Google Inc. is moving its Washington office closer to Capitol Hill…
Edward Snowden seen as whistle-blower by majority of U.S. registered voters
The view of Snowden as a whistle-blower rather than traitor predominated among almost every group…
How Microsoft handed U.S. NSA, FBI, CIA access to users’ encrypted video, audio, and text communications
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted,,,
DuckDuckGo search engine surges 33% in wake of PRISM scandal
The ‘anonymous’ search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal…
Yahoo: Since December 2012, we have received up to 13,000 U.S. gov’t requests for customer data
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Ron Bell, General Counsel, have issued…
Apple: Since December 2012, we have received U.S. gov’t requests for customer data for up to 10,000 accounts
Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data…
Nine companies, including Apple, tied to PRISM, Obama to be smacked with class-action lawsuit
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said during a Sunday appearance…
PRISM: Do Apple, Google, Facebook have an ethical obligation not to spy on users?
Many Americans are outraged at the government for mining user data…
Obama administration defends PRISM data-collection as legal anti-terrorism tool
The Obama administration confirmed the existence of a classified U.S. government program…
Report: Intelligence program gives U.S. government direct access to customer data on Apple servers; Apple denies
Apple: We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers…
Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million for AOL patents
Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with AOL…
Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, strike ad alliance to take on Google and Facebook
Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL Inc have set up an advertising partnership…
Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft announce joint ad sales plan to compete with Google
AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft compete for ad dollars. But a new pact calls for…
AOL and Yahoo reported to be in merger talks
AOL and Yahoo are reportedly discussing a merger…
