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By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cyber-security researchers say they’ve identified a highly sophisticated computer hacking program that appears to have been used by an as-yet unidentified government to spy on…
November 25, 2014 -
LONDON (AP) — Google has agreed to a settlement with a former Morgan Stanley banker who sued the search engine over defamatory Internet posts. Daniel Hegglin, a Hong Kong-based investor, went to Britain’s High Court…
November 25, 2014 -
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Silicon Valley seems to have more than its share of companies behaving badly. Among up-and-comers in the tech world, privacy abuses and executive gaffes have…
November 25, 2014 -
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of London’s police force said Sunday that as many as five terror plots were foiled this year, as he warned of increasing pressure on resources…
November 25, 2014 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Aereo, an online startup that tried to offer a cheaper alternative to cable TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than five months after an unfavorable ruling by the…
November 25, 2014 -
DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A child playing in Bucheon, South Korea. An empty crib in Absecon, New Jersey. Cattle feeding in Behamberg, Austria. Footage from more than 100 countries is being streamed…
November 24, 2014 -
MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo will supplant Google’s search engine on Firefox’s Web browser in the U.S., signaling Yahoo’s resolve to regain some of the ground that it has lost…
November 24, 2014 -
SUE MANNING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pet owners looking to launch the next Internet sensation or just longing for a new view of their dog’s dashing and digging won’t have to shop for…
November 20, 2014 -
HELSINKI (AP) — Uber is expanding its app-based taxi and ridesharing services in the Nordic region, to include the cities of Helsinki, Oslo and Copenhagen. The San Francisco-based company, which claims operations in 47 countries,…
November 20, 2014 -
BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — WhatsApp, the globally popular instant messaging system owned by Facebook, has begun using a powerful new encryption program aimed at protecting users’ conversations from unwanted surveillance…
November 20, 2014 -
KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — There will only be a few hundred, and they won’t be cheap, but Toyota is about to take its first small step into the unproven market for emissions-free,…
November 19, 2014 -
MATTI HUUHTANEN Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia is back in the fray. Just months after selling its ailing handsets business to Microsoft, the Finnish company is planning to go back into the consumer market…
November 19, 2014 -
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Google says it will buy the entire output of an 18-turbine, 62-megawatt Dutch wind energy project in the Netherlands to supply power to a major data center it is building. Company officials…
November 19, 2014 -
BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is launching a new free mobile app for its popular Groups feature that lets users create and interact with communities on the site, whether they’re…
November 19, 2014 -
MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest solar power plant of its type in the world — once promoted as a turning point in green energy — isn’t producing as much…
November 19, 2014