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Naysayers Wring Hands Over Comcast-TWC Merger

After months of being courted by both Comcast and Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable has agreed to be purchased by Comcast for US$45.2 billion in stock ...

Mayer Moves Search Higher on Yahoo’s To-Do List

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been more active than a kid on a sugar high. The company on Wednesday announced a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to advance personalization and mobile technologies ...

Internet of Things, Part 1: God’s Gift to the NSA

The United States National Security Agency's salivary glands no doubt started working overtime when it became apparent that technological advances were moving the world toward an Internet of Things -- a world where everything would be connected to everything else wirelessly or over the Web ...

Kaspersky Details Sophisticated ‘Mask’ Robber Ops

Kaspersky Lab has released research findings on Careto, a malware toolkit that has hit more than 380 victims in 31 countries so far since 2007 ...

Icahn Whistles a Different Tune on Apple Share Buyback

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on Monday dropped his attempt to push Apple into repurchasing US$50 billion-worth of its stocks, after months of effort ...

California Kill Switch Bill Tackles Smartphone Theft

California Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon on Friday announced the introduction of a bill in the legislature that would require all smartphones and devices sold in California to have a kill switch starting Jan. 1, 2015 ...

Twitter Struggles to Stay Aloft on Wall Street

Twitter on Wednesday announced Q4 2013 revenue of US$243 million, up 116 percent year over year, and a 30 percent YoY increase in average monthly active users ...

Google Dodges EU Antitrust Bullet

The European Commission has accepted Google's latest proposal to settle a probe of its practices pending agreement with the 125 companies and organizations that filed complaints against the Internet giant ...

Sprint Chairman Goes Knocking at FCC’s Door

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son reportedly was scheduled to meet with the United States Federal Communications Commission on Monday to discuss a possible purchase of T-Mobile, although the U.S. Department of Justice already has signaled its opposition ...

Oracle Calls Out Amazon, Salesforce

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said last week that his main rivals were the new generation of cloud companies, and that IBM and SAP were no longer in his gun sights ...

IT Weaknesses Paved the Way for Target Hackers

The Target data breach exposed more than 100 million customers, riled up the United States' intelligence agencies, sparked an investigation by the Justice Department, involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, triggered several congressional hearings, and led several banks to re-issue their credit cards ...

Google, EC Antitrust Settlement in the Wind

Google is close to settling the antitrust case the European Commission brought against it more than three years ago, according to a Reuters report ...

DoJ Throws a Couple of Bones, Tech Firms Back Off

The United States Department of Justice on Monday announced two new options for tech companies to report on government requests for information about their customers ...

Google Buys DeepMind to Dig Deeper Into Data

News that Google is purchasing artificial intelligence companyDeepMind for between US$500 million and $650 million surfaced Monday ...

SEA Hackers Muck Up CNN Sites

CNN on Thursday became the latest media outlet to fall victim to hacking by the Syrian Electronic Army, and the group's second victim this week. Microsoft was targeted by the group on Monday ...

Privacy Board Urges Shutdown of ‘Illegal’ NSA Data Dig

The United States National Security Agency should end its controversial bulk telephone metadata collection program, recommended the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ...

With AirWatch in Tow, VMware Arrives Late to Mobile Party

VMware on Wednesday announced it is acquiring enterprise mobile management and security solutions provider AirWatch ...

Syrian Electronic Army Takes Another Poke at Microsoft

The Syrian Electronic Army, which is notorious for launching cyberattacks against the media, on Monday defaced the Microsoft Office blog site ...

Beware of the Spam-Sending Fridge

More than 100,000 Internet-connected home consumer devices, including a refrigerator, spammed enterprises and consumers worldwide for about two weeks, between Dec. 23 and Jan. 6, according to security firm Proofpoint ...

Obama’s NSA Reforms Draw Tepid Response

In a keenly anticipated speech, President Obama on Friday announced reforms to the United States National Security Agency's surveillance activities, but his pronouncements failed to please just about everyone ...

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