Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has called for stronger privacy regulations that prevent the misuse of data…
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Steve Jobs tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg about privacy in 2010
Facebook’s executives have spent much of the past week dealing with the fallout of reports…
Facebook has gotten too big, too powerful, too influential for Mark Zuckerberg to handle
Mark Zuckerberg is not comfortable with the enormous influence he has over the world…
The Google-Facebook duopoly threatens diversity of thought
Google and Facebook control how millions of people find their news…
Why Apple replaced Microsoft’s Bing with Google search for Siri and Spotlight
Apple just worsened Bing’s already pathetic 2% share in mobile search…
Apple switches default from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Spotlight on Mac
Apple is switching the default provider of its web searches from Siri…
This is everything Google knows about you – and how to switch it off
It turns out Google knows a lot about you – an awful lot…
Should America’s tech giants be broken up? Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook may be contributing to the U.S. economy’s most persistent ailments
Google is as close to a monopoly as the Bell telephone system was in 1956…
European Union hits Google with record $2.73 billion fine for abusing internet search monopoly
The penalty is the biggest ever competition fine from the European Commission, doubling the previous record…
Apple’s Mac is now a threat to Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Later this year, Apple will release macOS Sierra, the next version of its Mac operating system…
Verizon to acquire beleaguered Yahoo for $4.8 billion
The one thing that kept Yahoo afloat for this long is Jerry Yang’s risky $1 billion bet on Alibaba in 2005…
EU alleges Google skews search results to boost its own products and services
Google faces a new antitrust attack from European Union regulators who allege the search engine…
Google asks court to sanction Oracle lawyer for disclosing its secret $1 billion deal with Apple
In January, Oracle attorney Annette Hurst disclosed the fact that Google paid Apple $1 billion…
Verizon to bid $3 billion for Yahoo’s internet business
Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of about $3 billion for Yahoo Inc.’s core internet business…
Google shares dip amid report U.S. FTC could reopen search probe
Federal Trade Commission officials are asking questions again about whether Google has abused its dominance…
Yahoo for sale as bidders line up; CEO Marissa Mayer is likely toast
Yahoo is for sale, and bidders are lining up to grab their own, ever-shrinking piece of Internet history…
Google is making a keyboard for Apple iPhones and iPads
Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company’s search engine…
CEO Marissa Mayer drops the ax, shutters about half of Yahoo’s content verticals
Yahoo was shuttering its tech vertical and moving some of its staff, including former New York Times columnist David Pogue…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gets a chance to make one last stand
For Mayer’s part, it is admirable that she fought to stick around and take one more shot…
Yahoo to lay off 15% of staff, close five offices, explore non-strategic asset sales
Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is set to reveal cost-cutting plans…
Will Apple buy DuckDuckGo this year?
DuckDuckGo is the search engine that does not track your searches or send your search words/phrases…
Hedge fund manager blasts Marissa Mayer for equipping employees with 22,000 iPhones
Marissa Mayer spends money like Marie Antoinette…
Yahoo investors running out of patience with CEO Marissa Mayer
In December, Yahoo abandoned its original plan to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, worth more than $30 billion…
Should Apple buy Yahoo?
It looks like Yahoo is considering selling its core business…
Yahoo board to weigh future of company, Marissa Mayer, source says
The board of Yahoo Inc is weighing a sale of its core Internet business when it meets this week…
Is Apple preparing to take $8 billion from Google?
Apple may hit Google with an $8 billion charge on its profits…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pregnant with identical twin girls
Since this is a unique time in Yahoo’s transformation, I plan to approach the pregnancy and delivery as I did with my son three years ago…
Google could rig the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, says research team
By manipulating its search results, Google could decide the next election…
Why I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo
While its main draw is privacy, DuckDuckGo has another killer feature…
Apple may dump Google as Safari’s default search engine
Apple may remove Google as its default mobile search engine on Safari…
Why Apple should buy DuckDuckGo
One of the most important, hardest-to-build, and useful Internet services…
Google’s war against apps: Google’s battle to erode the importance of apps intensifies
Google last fall secretly acquired an ‘app streaming’ startup called Agawi…
DuckDuckGo has grown 600% since Apple made it a search option – and Snowden’s revelations
DuckDuckGo heavily touts the fact that it doesn’t track the information of users…
Apple looks to be building an alternative to the Google-branded, hand-over-your-privacy ‘Internet Experience’
Much of the meat of Google revenue remains rooted…
Apple confirms ‘Applebot’ web crawler is indexing the web
Rumors that Apple might be creating its own search engine…
Why Google is the new evil empire
Don’t let the whimsical multicolored logo and ‘don’t be evil’ mantra fool you…
EU to slam Google with major antitrust charges
Google will on Wednesday be accused by Brussels of illegally abusing its dominance of search…
U.S. FTC report details how Google skewed search results in its own favor
Google Inc. manipulated search results to favor its own services over rivals’, even when they weren’t most relevant for users…
How Apple Watch will hurt Google’s search business
Google Search, which is the lifeblood of revenue for Google, is a one-size-fits-all approach…
Apple’s default search engine: Is DuckDuckGo next in line?
Apple’s core philsophy and DuckDuckGo’s are stunningly well aligned….
Analyst: Google faces ‘significant’ blow if Apple dumps them from Safari
Google, which has seen its share of the U.S. search market already decline…
Apple may be about to take on Google with its own search engine
Having gone ‘thermonuclear war’ on Google after it discovered…
