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Verizon completes Yahoo acquisition, Marissa Mayer resigns

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 4:45 pmTuesday, June 13, 201737 Comments

Verizon Communications Inc. today completed its acquisition of the operating business of Yahoo! Inc…

Microsoft axes 1,200 jobs, exits display ad business

Monday, June 29, 2015 4:55 pmMonday, June 29, 201521 Comments

About 1,200 jobs at Microsoft will be impacted…

Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4 billion

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:29 pmTuesday, May 12, 201515 Comments

When Steve Jobs released the first iPhone in June 2007…

In open letter to Obama, Apple, Google, others urge Patriot Act not be renewed

Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:16 pm26 Comments

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

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 9:11 amTuesday, January 6, 201522 Comments

Apple’s failure to understand services that remains its critical weakness…

Is Apple’s next big thing search?

Monday, April 7, 2014 2:01 pmMonday, April 7, 201423 Comments

Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask Network, AOL, DuckDuckGo, and even Dogpile…

Apple, Google, others call for government surveillance reform

Monday, December 9, 2013 10:01 amMonday, December 9, 201330 Comments

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

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 3:20 pmTuesday, November 5, 201317 Comments

Google Inc. is moving its Washington office closer to Capitol Hill…

Edward Snowden seen as whistle-blower by majority of U.S. registered voters

Friday, July 12, 2013 9:06 amFriday, July 12, 201380 Comments

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

Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:14 pmThursday, July 11, 201329 Comments

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

Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:29 pmThursday, June 20, 201334 Comments

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

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:01 pm5 Comments

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

Monday, June 17, 2013 9:44 amMonday, June 17, 201323 Comments

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

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:30 amWednesday, June 12, 201332 Comments

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said during a Sunday appearance…

PRISM: Do Apple, Google, Facebook have an ethical obligation not to spy on users?

Saturday, June 8, 2013 10:17 amSaturday, June 8, 201380 Comments

Many Americans are outraged at the government for mining user data…

Obama administration defends PRISM data-collection as legal anti-terrorism tool

Friday, June 7, 2013 9:01 amFriday, June 7, 201386 Comments

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

Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:11 pm36 Comments

Apple: We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers…

Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million for AOL patents

Monday, April 23, 2012 4:40 pm4 Comments

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

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:13 pm6 Comments

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

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:30 pmWednesday, September 14, 20118 Comments

AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft compete for ad dollars. But a new pact calls for…

AOL and Yahoo reported to be in merger talks

Friday, September 9, 2011 4:43 pmFriday, September 9, 201129 Comments

AOL and Yahoo are reportedly discussing a merger…

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