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In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the broad requests were unconstitutional. The judges disagreed. That left Yahoo two choices: Hand over the data or break the law. So Yahoo became [...]
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Three of the largest Internet companies called on the U.S. government to provide greater transparency on national security requests on Tuesday, as they sought to distance themselves from reports that portrayed the companies as willing partners in supplying mass data to security agencies. In similarly worded statements released within hours on Tuesday, Google Inc, Microsoft [...]
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George Orwell’s vision of the future in the 1930′s, when he wrote “1984″ has taken a little longer, but is reality today. The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable [...]
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GOOGLE beat out rivals APPLE and FACEBOOK when it comes to reputation. It continued its place on top of a Washington Post – ABC News Poll measuring how internet users feel about some of the country’s top tech firms. The poll shows that 83% of American adults contacted have a “favorable” view of GOOGLE, compared [...]
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The Internet revolution is in full swing. Changes are being made in society to reflect how the internet has shaped development, commerce, education, research, and design. The Internet is in nearly every sphere of the world, and more and more people are embracing the power of the Internet. Here is what you should expect in [...]
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U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in the way that it handles some ad sales. It is unlikely that the Federal Trade Commission has sent out civil investigative demands in relation to the probe, which would [...]
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YAHOO! has concluded that TUMBLR, the social blogging service, is worth more than $1 billion. That’s what their betting on the service. Whether it’s worth that amount will depend upon whether or not the combined company can turn its millions of users into an interlocking set of services that no competitor can hope to replicate. [...]
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Facebook’s “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court. “Any suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for [...]
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A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily passed legislation on Monday to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes for state and local governments, sending the issue to the House, where antitax forces have vowed to kill it. But the 69-to-27 vote in the Senate will give the measure significant momentum. Hundreds of retailers are [...]
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Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online. A final Senate vote is scheduled for May 6. The bill, called the Marketplace Fairness Act, would allow states to require online sellers around the country to collect sales tax for [...]
