Yahoo News names editor, plans major expansionYahoo News named a new editor-in-chief Monday who comes from The New York Times and promised a "major expansion" of news gathering at the US Internet giant.
11 September 2013
Snowden leak shows spy agencies break Web encryptionUS and British intelligence agencies have cracked the encryption that secures a wide range of online communications -- including emails, banking transactions and phone conversations.
Microsoft joins Google in US spying suit Microsoft on Friday said that a battle to shed light on secret US government requests for Internet user data would play out in court after failed peace talks.
Britain has secret Middle East web surveillance base: report Britain is running a secret Internet surveillance station in the Middle East, a report said Thursday citing the latest leaked documents obtained by fugitive US security contractor Edward Snowden.
24 August 2013
Al-Jazeera America goes live, woos viewers Al-Jazeera America went live Tuesday, accompanied by a campaign of traditional and social media for its cable channel launch, as it pledged to outdo its rivals with serious, in-depth journalism.
21 August 2013
Online video forces change on TV industry Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.
14 August 2013
Duel over Apple's punishment for e-book price-fixing US antitrust attorneys defended their push to restrict Apple in the e-books market as hearings opened Friday on how to punish the the tech giant found guilty of price-fixing.
11 August 2013
Kazakhstan's Dos Mukasan songs go 'Harlem Shake' styleChick Flick band from Kazakhstan released a new music video called Mukasan Shake that is a mix of famous songs of the legendary Kazakh band Dos Mukasan and Harlem Shake.
08 August 2013
Facebook tunes ranking of stories in news feeds Facebook's quest to be a personalized newspaper for the Internet age continued on Tuesday with tweaks aimed at making sure members spy hot stories from their friends.
07 August 2013
Yahoo buying binge continues with Rockmelt deal Yahoo on Friday said it bought social web-browsing startup Rockmelt, extending a buying spree started shortly after Marissa Mayer became chief last year.
US calls Assad Instagram account 'repulsive' The United States on Wednesday denounced as "repulsive" an Instagram site by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying it did not reflect the reality of the civil war.
Russian war games play on former US aircraft carrier Russian video game publisher 1C Company boarded a former US aircraft carrier to re-write the Cuban Missile Crisis that had super powers on the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
British PM ups pressure on Internet firms over child porn British Prime Minister David Cameron will on Monday demand Internet search engines take action to block queries about child sex abuse, threatening legislation if they fail to comply.