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Hackers urge Sony to pull N. Korea comedy film: reports A group which claims to have hacked Sony's servers demanded that its movie studio pull a soon-to-be-released comedy depicting a fictional CIA plot to kill North Korea's leader.
09 December 2014
Microsoft says private data 'at risk' in court case Microsoft argued in a court brief that an order requiring it to give US prosecutors data stored in Ireland could "put all of our private digital information at risk."
09 December 2014
Facebook Argentina fined over fake profiles Facebook Argentina was ordered to pay a firefighter one million pesos for failing to comply with an order to delete insulting fake profiles of the plaintiff.
03 December 2014
Microsoft buys email mobile app Accompli Microsoft said it was buying the mobile email management application Accompli, in a deal reported to be worth more than $200 million.
02 December 2014
Twitter takes note of other apps on smartphones Twitter said it would begin tracking which other applications people have installed on their mobile devices in a bid to better target ads and content.
27 November 2014
Amazon cuts Fire phone price to ignite sales Amazon slashed the price of Fire mobile phones that stalled after launch early this year, becoming a drag on the US online retail titan's bottom line.
27 November 2014
Google tests replacing web ads with contributions Google began rolling out a way for people to support websites they frequent and, in return, be rewarded with ad-free pages
21 November 2014
Twitter boss launches global cash register service Twitter's co-founder outlined plans to make cash registers a thing of the past.
21 November 2014
Firefox browsers switch to Yahoo for online search Firefox maker Mozilla announced that it is switching to Yahoo as the default service for online searches done through the Web browser in the United States.
20 November 2014
Twitter indexes every public tweet ever sent Twitter began letting users search through every tweet publicly fired off at the globally-popular one-to-many messaging service since it launched in 2006.
19 November 2014
Facebook preparing new website for office use: FT Facebook is preparing a new office version of its social networking site to compete with other sites like LinkedIn.
17 November 2014
Microsoft rolls out Skype for web browsers Microsoft released a test version of Skype that lets people make Internet calls from web browsers, eliminating the need to install special applications.
15 November 2014
Facebook to curb promotional posts on user timelines Facebook said it is making moves to reduce the number of promotional posts that pop up in timelines, in response to users' demands for fewer advertisements.
15 November 2014
S&P gives Twitter debt 'junk' rating Standard & Poor's gave Twitter's recent $1.8 billion debt issue a "speculative" rating of BB-.
14 November 2014
YouTube debuts subscription music service YouTube introduced a long-rumored subscription music video service with ad-free access to tunes in a challenge to Spotify, Pandora, Apple and others
13 November 2014
Yahoo buys video ad platform BrightRoll for $640 mn Yahoo announced it is buying video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million to bolster its ability to make money from marketing on desktop computers.
13 November 2014
SpaceX chief Musk confirms Internet satellite plan High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk confirmed that he is working on a web of small, low-cost satellites that could provide wireless Internet around the world.
12 November 2014
Iran's Internet police warn govt of Instagram ban A body tasked with policing the Internet laid down a two-month deadline for Iran's government to regularise the use of Instagram or access to the site would be blocked.
12 November 2014
Obama presses for tough 'open Internet' rules US President Barack Obama voiced support for a new regulatory system for Internet providers.
11 November 2014
Google to boost Ebola donations Google launched a campaign to raise money to fight Ebola, tossing $10 million into the pot and saying it will match donations to the fund two to one.
11 November 2014
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