Google has created a new app for people to manage their overflowing inboxes.Read more…
Survey Exposes Prevalence of Online Harassment
By Nick WingfieldA new study reveals that 40 percent of adult Internet users have personally experienced some form of online intimidation, and three-quarters have witnessed someone else being harassed online.Read more…
The Nature of the IBM ‘Crisis’
By Steve LohrThe challenge for IBM today is very different from the crisis it faced in the 1990s. It is financially strong and more nimble, but there are echoes of the past. Read more…
Daily Report: Yahoo Growing Again, but Strategy Remains Hazy
By The New York TimesStrong third-quarter results at Yahoo ended a long pattern of declines.Read more…
Coming of Age in Cloud Computing
By Quentin HardyCloud computing, particularly in the big rental businesses of Microsoft and Amazon, has been criticized as undependable and tough to manage. A number of recent announcements suggest that some companies are trying to address the issue.Read more…
F.T.C. Names Ashkan Soltani as Chief Technologist
By Edward WyattThe appointee, Ashkan Soltani, has worked as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, co-writing some of the articles in that paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series stemming from the Edward Snowden revelations. Read more…
Staples Is Latest Retailer Hit by Hackers
By Nicole PerlrothThe company said it was working with law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of the problem. It is one of many retailers and restaurant chains to be hit by hackers over the last year.Read more…
Longtime Microsoft Executive Opens Cloud Database Start-Up
By Nick WingfieldAt Microsoft, Bob Muglia helped build the company’s server and tools business into a $17 billion-a-year juggernaut. Now he’s running a cloud database start-up that has raised $26 million in funding. Read more…
Verizon Reports Higher Profit During a Price-Cutting War
By Brian X. ChenAmid a price-cutting war in the American wireless industry, the Verizon juggernaut keeps growing, even though its prices are generally higher.Read more…
Daily Report: Chasing Marty McFly’s Hoverboard
By The New York TimesFor the last 25 years, garage tinkerers, physics professors and top engineers at Google have been trying to make one.Read more…
For Microsoft, Cloud Business Looks More Promising Than Mobile
By Nick WingfieldDespite being a laggard in cloud computing, Microsoft has established real credibility, and now runs twice as many data centers as Amazon and six times as many as Google. Read more…
Amazon Strikes Deal With Simon & Schuster
By David StreitfeldAmazon has reached a deal with Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishers, while the retailer’s battle with another publisher, Hachette, grinds on. Read more…
Facebook Sues Lawyers for Pressing Dubious Ownership Case
By Vindu GoelThe company says the former lawyers for Paul Ceglia, a New York man who claimed that Mark Zuckerberg had given him a large stake in Facebook, continued to argue his case despite knowledge that his evidence was fabricated.Read more…
Senator Calls on Comcast to Extend Net Neutrality Pledge
By Edward WyattSenator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Committee, called on Comcast to commit to never allow so-called fast lanes, or paid prioritization, on its network, even beyond the expiration of a current promise to avoid the practice through 2018. Read more…
Amazon Kindle Voyage, a High-End E-Reader That Beats Hardcovers
By Farhad ManjooAmazon’s latest Kindle reader, the Voyage, is better than a printed book. Read more…
Daily Report: How Video Games Became Part of Korea’s Culture
By The New York TimesThe extent to which video games have become part of mainstream culture in South Korea may be a sign of things to come in the West.Read more…
IBM Sets Announcement on Monday, Possibly on Chip-Making Unit
By Steve LohrAnalysts say the most likely possibility is that it has a deal in its long-running effort to shed its computer chip manufacturing operations.Read more…
A Dynamic New Tool to Preserve the Friendsters of the Future
By Vindu GoelRhizome, a New York nonprofit group dedicated to supporting and conserving digital art, has developed a prototype of a tool that records the immersive experience of a website or a social network.Read more…
Trying to Live in the Moment (and Not on the Phone)
By Jenna WorthamBy providing a scoreboard of our smartphone use, new apps may help us change our ways.Read more…
Daily Report: Analysts Wonder About Google’s Next Phase
By The New York TimesEven though Google has expanded beyond its core search business, nothing has been as profitable as search, its original golden goose.Read more…
A Look Behind the Snapchat Photo Leak Claims
By Mike IsaacThree men who built a tool called Snapaved to store images from the messaging service have come forward to offer details of how a recent theft of thousands of private photos occurred. Read more…
Privacy Questions Emerge for the Social App Whisper
By Mike IsaacThe social network, which allows users to post updates without using their real names, is facing criticism that it promises more privacy than it’s capable of delivering.Read more…
Phone Use for Photos and Videos Is Increasing, Report Finds
By Edward WyattThe Commerce Department reported that in 2012, for the first time, more than half of mobile phone users over 25 used their phone for taking photos or video.Read more…
Daily Report: Airbnb Listings Mostly Break the Law, New York State Asserts
By The New York TimesA report by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York indicates that nearly three-quarters of all Airbnb rentals in New York City were illegal.Read more…
Apple’s iPad Problem: Does Anyone Really Need an Expensive Tablet?
By Farhad ManjooAt an event to unveil new iPads on Thursday, Apple will need to show that the iPad is an essential device in a world already crowded with screens. Read more…
Reddit Debuts an Official Mobile App
By Mike IsaacAfter nearly 10 years, a popular online messaging board focuses on its mobile efforts. Read more…
Poodle Bug Marks Third Major Security Flaw Discovered This Year
By Nicole PerlrothOn Tuesday, researchers disclosed details of a security bug that could make web browsing sessions on a public network vulnerable to hackers.Read more…
Daily Report: Samsung’s New Galaxy Note 4 Offers a Glimpse of Computing’s Future
By The New York TimesWith a half-dozen new features that will delight users, Samsung’s latest smartphone may have its owners forgetting about all their other devices.Read more…
Google Executive Chairman: Amazon Is a Lovely Place to Shop and Search
By Conor DoughertyAs the European Commission continues to negotiate an antitrust case regarding Google, the company’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, used a speech to talk about how strong Google’s competitors are. Read more…
IBM and SAP: A Cloud Pact That Solves Problems and Holds Promise
By Steve LohrThe deal suggests that the demand for cloud-delivered software from mainstream corporate customers is accelerating. Read more…