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  • BERLIN (AP) — Germany has approved BlackBerry’s purchase of encryption firm Secusmart after signing a “no-spy” agreement with the Canadian smartphone maker. Duesseldorf-based Secusmart provides special smartphones to German government officials that are meant to…

    December 01, 2014
  • By SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a…

    December 01, 2014
  • By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union institutions are piling pressure on Google to change the way it operates its business and applies EU rules. The European parliament on Thursday approved a…

    December 01, 2014
  • By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. firm that helps connect more than 700 companies with customers through social media says a Syrian group hacked the company’s web address to…

    December 01, 2014
  • By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press Traveling by plane, train or automobile can be a headache. Mixing in Thanksgiving can make it a throbbing migraine. Technology provides some pain relief in the form of apps to…

    November 28, 2014
  • By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co.’s latest earnings report shows that despite three years of efforts to turn its business around, the venerable tech giant still has a lot…

    November 28, 2014
  • By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance. Meticulously overwhelming its computer networks, the hackers showed that — given time — they would…

    November 26, 2014
  • 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