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GM Deal Buoys Lyft

General Motors has agreed to invest US$500 million in Lyft, and the companies will work together to develop an integrated network of autonomous vehicles, they said in a joint announcement on Monday. ...

Home Broadband Use Falls as Consumers Go Mobile

A recentPew Research Center study found that adoption of traditional high-speed Internet in the U.S. has fallen to 67 percent, the lowest level since 2012 ...

Facebook Takes On Yelp, Angie’s List

Facebook recently launched a service for members that provides recommendations and ratings on shops and service providers, a move that puts it in direct competition withYelp ...

China’s Internet Tightrope Walk

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently told an international delegation of cybersecurity and technology experts that governments must be allowed to exercise sovereign rights and decision making over Internet use within their own countries. ...

Amazon Burns Through Previous Holiday Records

Amazon on Monday reported a record competition-shattering performance during the Christmas holiday, adding more than 3 million Amazon Prime members last week alone. ...

Juniper Networks Shortens ScreenOS Threat List

Juniper Networks on Sunday informed customers that recent security threats to its ScreenOS were not as widespread as initially believed. ...

Three Charged in Hacking Case That Spammed 60M

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey on Tuesday charged three men in a US$2 million identity theft scheme to hack corporate computer systems and blast spam messages to more than 60 million people ...

Disgruntled Yahoo Investors Suggest Different Paths Forward

Two Yahoo investors, acting independently, have publicly called for radical changes or a potential sale of the firm. ...

Alibaba May Have to Handle SCMP With Kid Gloves

Alibaba Group last week announced that it has entered an agreement to buy the South China Morning Post and other media assets of SCMP Group ...

Walmart Jumps Into Mobile Pay Fray

Walmart on Thursday introduced its own mobile payments solution to let customers make in-store purchases with an Android or iOS smartphone. The move will make it the only retailer to compete with third-party mobile payment systems ...

Aussie Cops Raid Home of Elusive Suspected Bitcoin Inventor

Australian police on Wednesday afternoon raided the home of a shadowy figure who just hours earlier had been outed as one of the original founders of bitcoin digital currency in two separate media reports. ...

Feinstein Revives Terrorist Activity Reporting Bill

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Tuesday reintroduced a bill that would require technology companies to alert law enforcement of certain activities that might be related to terrorist threats. ...

Social Media Firms Face Quandary Over Terror Prevention

Following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., social media companies are coming under increased pressure, both internally and externally, to protect their networks from being used as platforms for operational planning and propaganda ...

Samsung Grudgingly Agrees to Write Apple a $548M Check

Samsung and Apple last week filed a court document indicating the companies had come to an agreement under which Samsung will pay Apple US$548 million toward partial resolution of an epic legal dispute. At the heart of the conflict were Apple's allegations that Samsung effectively had stolen the technology behind certain key iPhone features for its own competing devices.

Yahoo Reintroduces a Messenger for This Millennium

In the midst of takeover speculation, Yahoo on Thursday reintroduced its standby Messenger app in a more robust version, with a set of features designed to breathe new life into a semi-comatose patient. ...

Target’s Website Misses the Mark on Cyber Monday

Target's website traffic hit a wall when a record number of shoppers showed up in search of Cyber Monday bargains ...

Pirate Bay Scores Rare Legal Victory

A District Court in Stockholm, Sweden, last week ruled against an international group of content providers who sought to force a local Internet service provider to block The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site, said lawyers for the plaintiffs. ...

Security Certificate Issues Plague Dell

Dell earlier this week announced that it was notified of a security flaw linked to a certificate that it installed on computer systems starting on Aug. 18. ...

Austrian High Court to Rule on Class Action Status in Facebook Privacy Case

The Austrian Supreme Court will consider whether a suit against Facebook Ireland can proceed as a class action. Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems brought the suit to challenge the transfer of private data to Facebook's European subsidiary in Ireland. ...

Diane Greene to Lead Google Into Cloud Business Fray

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday announced the appointment of Diane Greene, cofounder of VMWare and a current Google board member, to lead its cloud business operations. ...

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