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Google Is Paying $17 Million to 37 States for Safari Privacy Case
Nov 22, 2013Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
Tags: Google, $17 million, Safari Web
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Google Turns Social Networking Service Into a More Formidable Threat to Facebook
May 17, 2013Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products
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To See What Facebook Has Become, Look No Further Than The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer
Apr 7, 2013To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
Tags: Facebook, social network
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Microsoft Will Start Selling The Surface Pro Tablet in China Next Week
Mar 31, 2013Microsoft will start selling the Surface Pro tablet in China next week, the company said yesterday. According to the company's Chinese e-store, the Surface Pro will go on sale April 2 at 9 p.m. local time. The Chinese debut will be the ...
Tags: Microsoft, company news, Chinese e-store
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A Fledgling App for Anonymous Chatting Is Gaining Some Traction
Mar 12, 2013Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. GhostPost is giving ...
Tags: Southwest Interactive, Twitter, FourSquare
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Linkedin Won The Dismissal of a Lawsuit Seeking Damages on Behalf of Premium Users
Mar 8, 2013Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year. The data ...
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APP Will Pay a $800,000 Civil Penalty to Settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission Charges
Feb 5, 2013The maker of the Path social networking app will pay a $800,000 civil penalty to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected personal information from children without parental consent, the agency said Friday. ...
Tags: Path social networking app, U.S.Federal Trade Commission
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The Path APP was charged by its illegal collecting users' information
Feb 4, 2013The operator of the Path social networking app has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. The ...
Tags: Path social networking app, Federal Trade Commission, mobile device
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A Facebook Engineer Developed Heat-Map Software
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. The visualization monitoring ...
Tags: Facebook, data center, social network, social networking
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Microsoft to Acquire Enterprise Social Networking Firm Yammer for$1.2b in Cash
Dec 28, 2012Microsoft has announced plans to acquire enterprise social networking firm Yammer for$1.2bn in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office division,led by division president Kurt DelBene,and the team will continue to report to current ...
Tags: Microsoft, acquire firm Yammer
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Taiwan's MediaTek Plans to Help Bring Twitter to Lower-End Feature Phones
Dec 26, 2012Taiwan's MediaTek, a designer of mobile processors, plans to help bring Twitter to lower-end feature phones, by pre-installing the social media service on to the company's chipsets. The two companies announced the new partnership on ...
Tags: MediaTek, partnership, Twitter, hardware
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Lawyers for Megaupload Filed Another Motion on Wednesday
Dec 25, 2012Lawyers for Megaupload filed another motion on Wednesday asking a federal court to dismiss its criminal case, continuing its argument that the company can't be served a summons since it was headquartered outside the U.S. Megaupload wants ...
Tags: Megaupload, federal court, criminal case, U.S.
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Facebook Has Reinvented Its Poke Feature with a New Standalone iOS App
Dec 22, 2012Facebook has reinvented its Poke feature with a new standalone iOS app that lets you send messages,photos and videos to your friends on the social networking service that disappear within 10 seconds of someone opening them. While it might ...
Tags: Facebook, Poke App, David Petraeus, Snapchat
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A Federal Judge Dismissed a Privacy Class-Action Lawsuit Against Linkedin
Dec 21, 2012A federal judge in California dismissed a privacy class-action lawsuit against LinkedIn that alleged the social media network violated provisions of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) when it disclosed the IDs and browsing histories of ...
Tags: federal judge, privacy lawsuit, LinkedIn, social media network
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Apple Has Opened Discussions with Foursquare
Dec 21, 2012Apple has opened discussions with Foursquare, the developer of a social media application that allows users find and share location-based information, about the possibility of sharing data. The Wall Street Journal reports that talks took ...
Tags: Apple, Foursquare, map software, missing information