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Google’s Pichai worried over ‘bad optics,’ poor ‘user experience’ with search engine deal with Apple
Google’s Sundar Pichai raised concerns years before he became the company’s chief executive officer that its deal with Apple had “bad optics”…
Is Apple preparing to launch its own search engine?
The rumor mill is revving up ahead of WWDC 2022 with an oldie but a goodie: Apple is prepping the launch its own search engine …
Apple releases first public betas of iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3
Just one day after providing the betas to developers, Apple today seeded the first public betas of the upcoming iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3…
U.S. DOJ cites Apple deal in antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google
The United State’s Department of Justice on Tuesday filed antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google that focus on the company’s…
Verizon launches Yahoo Mobile, a $40-per-month cell service
Using the 25-year-old Yahoo brand, Verizon is launching a new mobile phone service called Yahoo Mobile which operates on Verizon’s 4G LTE network…
Flickr extends photo deletion deadline to March 12
Flickr, the legacy online photo sharing site, was set to start deleting members’ photos…
Should Apple have its own search engine?
Apple CEO Tim Cook was made to answer a very uncomfortable question…
Tim Cook: Why Apple accepts billions annually from Google to be Safari’s default search engine despite privacy concerns
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t name names when he spoke out against the privacy practices…
DuckDuckGo: What it’s like to use a search engine that values your privacy
DuckDuckGo prides itself on not tracking users…
Apple allegedly pressured Yahoo to quash App Store rival in Japan
Japan is investigating allegations that pressure from Apple forced Yahoo Japan to pull back…
Facebook asks users: Should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook whether pedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website…
Study: Facebook is for old people
Facebook lost 2.8 million users under the age of 25 last year…
Twitter sort of denies allegations of employees reading direct messages
On Monday, conservative activist and filmmaker James O’Keefe published undercover footage of Twitter engineers…
Mark Zuckerberg is fighting to save Facebook; announces major change to News Feed
On Thursday, Facebook announced a major change to News Feed, its central feature…
Facebook developing ‘Portal’ gadget which will let it put microphones and cameras in people’s homes
The oppressive rulers of Oceania used devices called telescreens to closely monitor and repress citizens…
Facebook is giving the US government more and more data
Every year, Facebook gets tens of thousands of requests for data from governments worldwide…
Your Yahoo account was definitely hacked – here’s what to do
Yahoo has revealed a hack that compromised all 3 billion accounts its services…
Facebook plans to spend as much as Apple, up to $1 billion, on original shows in 2018
Facebook Inc. is loosening its purse strings in its drive to become a major hub for video…
Young people are leaving Facebook
This marks the first time eMarketer has ever predicted a decline in Facebook usage for any age group…
Verizon completes Yahoo acquisition, Marissa Mayer resigns
Verizon Communications Inc. today completed its acquisition of the operating business of Yahoo! Inc…
Marissa Mayer will pocket $186 million when Verizon fully acquires Yahoo next month
Marissa Mayer will pocket $186 million when Verizon fully acquires Yahoo next month…
How to delete your online existence, while saving your data
Sick of Snapchat? Tired of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook?
Verizon to buy Yahoo’s core business for $4.48 billion
Verizon said on Tuesday it would buy Yahoo’s core business for $4.48 billion…
Apple Inc. fights shareholders group demand for more diversity
Silicon Valley has a long way to go on diversity, but most tech companies would argue…
Beleaguered Yahoo faces U.S. SEC probe over data breaches
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Yahoo Inc.’s two massive data breaches should…
Yahoo discloses ‘largest hack of all time,’ says hackers stole data from over one billion users
Yahoo said it is forcing all affected users to change their passwords and is invalidating unencrypted security questions…
Facebook wants to start selling TV ads via Apple TV and Roku boxes
Next week, Facebook will start delivering video ads on apps that run on set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku…
Yahoo secretly scanned all customer emails for FBI, NSA, sources say
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…
Yahoo confirms data breach of at least 500 million user accounts
A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account info…
Yahoo expected to confirm massive data breach, impacting several hundreds of millions of users
Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service, according to several sources…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer likely to pocket over $122.5 million with sale to Verizon
That widely reported $55 million figure grossly understates what Mayer is likely to pocket…
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…
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…
Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet
Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network…
Massive email hack hits millions
Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded…
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…
