ThinkstockThe disclosure that the U.S. government tracks phone call patterns and a broad spectrum of data from large consumer-facing tech companies, which probably include Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
courtesy of Google Inc.The mergers and acquisitions process at Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) cannot be measured against those of most other companies. The search company is willing to take chances rivals would…
thinkstockConfirming a report from last night, set-top box maker TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) said this morning that the company has settled patent litigation with Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) can do nearly everything from search to maps that show people where they are, to providing the world’s most popular operating system. It now claims it has the…
Douglas A. McIntyre thinkstockAlmost every large tech company with email, search and app capacity denied reports in The Washington Post and the Guardian that claimed the U.S. government tracked the activities of citizens as a…
courtesy of SamsungAmericans love a horse race, whether it involves the big, four-legged critters or the two-legged political kind. The attraction, of course, is that there’s always a winner. Trying to apply…
thinkstockStreaming video service Hulu is owned by a consortium that includes Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) and Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA). This is not the first time that…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsThe FBI and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), working together, took down a network that has committed a series of cyber frauds that have cost banks $500 million. The…
courtesy of SamsungA combined 56% of Americans now own a smartphone according to the latest “Internet and American Life Project” at Pew Research Center. Some 91% of all Americans own a cell…
ThinkstockThe explosive global growth of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets has led to equally explosive growth in demand for mobile bandwidth to feed the ever-hungrier devices. Growth in demand for mobile…
ThinkstockThe HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for China comes in at 52.1 last month, another sign of economic trouble. (Reuters) Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) recalls 242,000 hybrids because of brake problems. (Reuters)…
ThinkstockChina’s Lenovo Group has been looking for a way into the smartphone market at least since early this year, when the company was reported to be eyeing Research In Motion, now known…
courtesy of AppleThe Android mobile device operating system (OS) from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) continues to hold more than half the smartphone OS market, with a 51.7% share for the three-month period…
ThinkstockNext Monday, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) kicks off its annual developer’s conference, and the company would dearly like to announce an Internet music service at the meeting. To that end, Apple is…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has thrown in the towel in the portable device market, as it drops its price on Windows RT. The company has continued to struggle with the…
