E-Business & Internet

• Digital censorship grows as media moves online
  AP (May 02, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Governments worldwide are developing new tools to censor reporters as the media increasingly moves online, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.
   
  
• Man unknowingly liveblogs Bin Laden operation
  AP (May 02, 2011)
  CAIRO (AP) - A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site Twitter.
   
  
• Big demand for bin Laden news jams Newseum site
  AP (May 02, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - When big news breaks, newspapers are a hot commodity despite the immediacy of online news.
   
  
• UAE quiet on streets but Web reformers face heat
  AP (April 27, 2011)
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - No protesters have taken to the streets calling for reforms. There's been barely a public whisper about whether the Arab uprisings could intrude on the cozy world of the United Arab Emirates' rulers.
   
  
• Apple says white iPhone to arrive Thursday
  AP (April 27, 2011)
  CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple says the long-delayed white iPhone 4 will go on sale Thursday in the United States, United Kingdom and 26 other countries for $199 or $299 depending on the model.
   
  
• Review: Gory 'Mortal Kombat' as brain-dead as ever
  AP (April 27, 2011)
  (AP) - There are a handful of games that critics like to discuss when we talk about the evolution and maturation of the video game. "Braid." "Red Dead Redemption." "Mass Effect 2." Lately, "Portal 2."
   
  
• Apple denies iPhones store user location
  AP (April 27, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Apple Inc. denied Wednesday that iPhones store a record of their users' movements for up to a year and blamed privacy concerns partly on a misunderstanding.
   
  
• Sony shows tablets to compete with Apple offerings
  AP (April 26, 2011)
  TOKYO (AP) - Sony is planning a tablet computer with a touch panel similar to Apple's iPad for later this year that the Japanese manufacturer promises will make the best of its gadgetry and entertainment strengths.
   
  
• Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops
  AP (April 26, 2011)
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Amid all the free food and other goodies that come with a job at Google Inc., there's one benefit a lot of employees don't even know about: a cluster of high-tech workshops that have become a tinkerer's paradise.
   
  
• German foundation paid WikiLeaks $585,000 in 2010
  AP (April 26, 2011)
  BERLIN (AP) - WikiLeaks' self-described main financial backer supported the organization through donations totaling euro402,000 ($585,000) last year, a German foundation said Tuesday, providing a rare glimpse into the group's finances.
   
  
• Facebook launches deals program, rivals Groupon
  AP (April 26, 2011)
  (AP) - What happens when you cross the world's largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out.
   
  
• Nintendo's annual profit down 66 percent to $947M
  AP (April 25, 2011)
  TOKYO (AP) - Nintendo's annual profit dropped for the second straight year as sales of its gaming devices fell despite a price cut for the DS handheld.
   
  
• Yahoo acquisition adds way to share TV show info
  AP (April 25, 2011)
  SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Yahoo Inc. has bought the maker of mobile software that makes it easier for people to let their friends know what TV shows they're watching.
   
  
• Iran says is uncovers second cyber attack
  AP (April 25, 2011)
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has been hit by a second computer virus, a senior military official said Monday, suggesting it was part of a concerted campaign to undermine the country's disputed nuclear program.
   
  
• Amazon failure takes down sites across Internet
  AP (April 21, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Major websites including Foursquare and Reddit crashed or suffered slowdowns Thursday after technical problems rattled Amazon.com's widely used Web servers, frustrating millions of people who couldn't access their favorite sites.
   
  
• States seek to make it safer to find love online
  AP (April 21, 2011)
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Something just didn't seem right when Ilana Angel met her Internet date at a bar. He furtively looked around the room and immediately suggested they go someplace else in his car, leaving hers behind at the bar.
   
  
• Apple slammed over iPhone, iPad location tracking
  AP (April 21, 2011)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users - records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge.
   
  
• Microsoft boosts pay for employees worldwide
  AP (April 21, 2011)
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced what it called its "most significant investment in overall compensation" for its employees in its history, as it jostles to keep talent from fleeing to rival technology companies like Facebook, Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
   
  
• Verizon rakes in subscribers with help of iPhone
  AP (April 21, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Helped by the iPhone, Verizon Wireless is pulling in more high-paying subscribers than it has in a year, and 15 times more than rival AT&T.
   
  
• Obama to host social media town hall at Facebook
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook users are deluging President Barack Obama with questions as he readies for a town hall meeting at the Silicon Valley headquarters of the social media giant.
   
  
• Business buying lifts Intel as tablet threat looms
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Intel Corp. has sent a strong message to Wall Street: Tablets may be transforming the computer industry, but there's still a lot of money left to be made in the huge market for traditional PCs.
   
  
• Obama mixing politics and policy on West Coast
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Stepping away from Washington's contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West Coast trip aimed at building support for his deficit-reduction plans and raising money for his re-election campaign.
   
  
• Arkansas, Mississippi rely on cellphones most
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - America's abandonment of the landline phone in favor of the cellphone is accelerating, but nowhere has it gone further than in Arkansas and Mississippi. The states where the smallest proportion of people depend solely on wireless phones and no landlines: New Jersey and Rhode Island.
   
  
• Washington Post launches Trove as custom news site
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Washington Post Co. is launching a news aggregation website called Trove that allows users to create their own news sites based on Facebook interests and customized subjects.
   
  
• Internet 'Right to be Forgotten' debate hits Spain
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  MADRID (AP) - Their ranks include a plastic surgeon, a prison guard and a high school principal. All are Spanish, but have little else in common except this: They want old Internet references about them that pop up in Google searches wiped away.
   
  
• Amazon says library e-books coming to the Kindle
  AP (April 20, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon says its Kindle e-reader will get the ability to load e-books from 11,000 U.S. public libraries later this year.
   
  
• SKorean search engines file Google complaints
  AP (April 15, 2011)
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's top Internet search companies asked the country's antitrust regulator Friday to investigate Google Inc. over whether it restricts competition in the mobile search market.
   
  
• Paul Allen says book not revenge against Gates
  AP (April 15, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen defends his new book in an upcoming episode of "60 Minutes." He says it was meant as an important slice of technology history and not as revenge against Bill Gates.
   
  
• Venture-cap investments rise in 1Q
  AP (April 15, 2011)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Funding to U.S. startups climbed during the first three months of the year, with venture capitalists putting more money into fewer companies, according to a study scheduled to be released Friday. Despite the decline in deals, the growth may indicate an improvement in the health of the venture investment market.
   
  
• Future farm: a sunless, rainless room indoors
  AP (April 11, 2011)
  DEN BOSCH, Netherlands (AP) - Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right.
   
  
• Level 3 to acquire Global Crossing for $2 billion
  AP (April 11, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Level 3 Communications Inc. said Monday that it is buying Global Crossing Ltd. for $2 billion, joining two major long-distance telecommunications networks that carry massive amounts of Internet and other data traffic in the U.S. and internationally.
   
  
• Court upholds Facebook settlement over site idea
  AP (April 11, 2011)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court has ruled that the former Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't undo their settlement over the social networking site.
   
  
• Del. judge denies NY request for Intel information
  AP (April 11, 2011)
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge has denied a request by New York authorities to obtain confidential information from a lawsuit between Nvidia Corp. and rival chipmaker Intel Corp. as they investigate alleged anti-competitive behavior by Intel.
   
  
• Hackers attack websites of Russian paper, blog
  AP (April 08, 2011)
  MOSCOW (AP) - A cyber attack on Friday paralyzed the website of a popular Russian independent newspaper, days after similar attacks knocked off Russia's most popular blogging site.
   
  
• Georgia alleges scavenger, 75, shut down Internet
  AP (April 08, 2011)
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - An elderly Georgian woman who allegedly shut off Internet service in her country and neighboring Armenia while scavenging for copper cable is facing charges that could lead to three years in prison.
   
  
• Government lets Google buy travel software company
  AP (April 08, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Government officials are letting Google proceed with its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software. The deal will establish the Internet search giant as a key player in the online travel market.
   
  
• Samsung Electronics suffers fall in 1Q earnings
  AP (April 07, 2011)
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Samsung Electronics has suffered a sharp fall in first quarter earnings, hit by weakness in its liquid crystal display business and price competition in tablet computers.
   
  
• Facebook to open up technology behind its servers
  AP (April 07, 2011)
  PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Facebook says it will share the technology behind the servers that power its massive online social network. The company wants to share the specifications and design documents to help others build startups more easily.
   
  
• FCC adopts rules to drive wireless competition
  AP (April 07, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators have adopted rules to drive more competition in wireless broadband as more and more consumers access the Internet using iPhones and other sophisticated mobile devices.
   
  
• Serb nationalists love Gadhafi on Facebook page
  AP (April 05, 2011)
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Five years after their leader Slobodan Milosevic died while on trial for genocide, some Serb nationalists have found a new idol: Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
   
  
• Nasdaq OMX to rebalance index; Apple weighting cut
  AP (April 05, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. on Tuesday announced a rebalancing of the Nasdaq-100 Index next month that will significantly reduce Apple Inc.'s weighting in the index.
   
  
• Obama to hold Facebook town hall this month
  AP (April 05, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama intends to hold a town hall-style session on Facebook later this month during a trip to California.
   
  
• San Francisco lawmakers approve Twitter tax break
  AP (April 05, 2011)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - City lawmakers have approved a tax break to keep Twitter from fleeing San Francisco.