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  • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy — and make it much shorter — to explain how it targets advertisements to…

    November 14, 2014
  • BY MARLEY JAY AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A trade deal between the U.S. and China could end tariffs on $1 trillion in global sales of semiconductors, MRI machines, GPS devices, printer ink…

    November 13, 2014
  • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying digital video advertising service BrightRoll for $640 million in the Internet company’s latest attempt to boost its revenue after years filled mostly with…

    November 12, 2014
  • TOBY STERLING Associated Press KROMMENIE, Netherlands (AP) — A project dubbed “SolaRoad” gets underway in the Netherlands this week, testing roadways as a potential canvas to collect solar energy. Fittingly for the cycle-crazy Dutch, the…

    November 12, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has unveiled a cheaper smartphone, costing about 110 euros ($135), as it eyes emerging and other low-cost markets for growth. The new model is the first Lumia smartphone under Microsoft’s…

    November 11, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — Google is launching a campaign to help fight Ebola by contributing $2 for every dollar people donate to a slew of nonprofits such as Save the Children and the Doctors Without…

    November 11, 2014
  • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Smartphone case maker OtterBox is replacing its CEO following the global expansion of the Fort Collins, Colorado-based company. OtterBox announced the departure of CEO Brian Thomas on Friday as well…

    November 11, 2014
  • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday embraced a radical change in how the government treats Internet service, coming down on the side of consumer activists who fear slower download…

    November 11, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is buying Mexican wireless company Iusacell for $1.8 billion and plans to grow in Mexico. The Dallas company said Friday that Iusacell has 8.6 million subscribers under the Iusacell and…

    November 11, 2014
  • BERLIN (AP) — YouTube has amended a form used to resolve copyright disputes after the operators of a German web channel received death threats. The threats by alleged Islamic extremists came after Al Hayat TV,…

    November 10, 2014
  • BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is offering free upgraded versions of its Office software for iPhones and iPads, as the software giant further embraces the so-called “freemium” strategy favored by…

    November 10, 2014
  • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government on Thursday announced its first bitcoin securities fraud case, accusing a Texas man of engineering a Ponzi scheme by getting people to turn over…

    November 07, 2014
  • TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Palo Alto Networks has discovered a new form of malware that may have affected hundreds of thousands of Apple mobile device users, largely in China. The cybersecurity provider has named…

    November 06, 2014
  • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly everyone agrees that texting and driving is dangerous. Many people do it anyway. In an AT&T-sponsored survey of frequent drivers who text daily — regardless…

    November 06, 2014