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Google sent this letter to Web users in the hopes that some will agree to share even more data about their online activities.In the past year, Google has been repeatedly criticized on privacy issues. Is that why the search giant seems to be having a hard time finding enough participants for an ambitious new tracking venture? Read more…
Google executives made frequent trips to Washington to press their case in an antitrust inquiry, laying out legal arguments and applying lessons from Microsoft’s bruising 1990s battle. Read more…
Companies like Apple have drawn Congressional scrutiny because of their penchant for shifting profits overseas, resulting in low American tax bills. Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s Nook unit suffered a 12.6 percent decline in sales compared with the same period a year earlier, a blow to its hopes of building up its digital division to compete with behemoths like Amazon.com and Apple. Read more »
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Thursday, selections include Internet technologies spreading into more industries, which Web sites share what information and the latest iPhone bug. Read more…
On Thursday, all 7,000 Starbucks cafes in the United States started selling Square’s mobile card reader for $10. People new to Square can sign up and get a $10 rebate, effectively getting the reader free. Read more…
The Federal Trade Commission found that Google had not violated antitrust statutes in the way it structures its Web search application, dealing a setback to Google’s rivals. Edward Wyatt, reporting from Washington, has the details. You can also read the F.T.C.’s news release on the results of its inquiry, and the prepared remarks of its chairman, Jon Leibowitz.
The $500 million acquisition of Zipcar by the Avis Budget Group represents a perhaps inevitable evolution for a company that has been more successful as a collectivist concept than as a profit-making venture. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Wednesday, selections include a look at Tumblr, its chief and what they have to prove, the merger of two cellphone trade shows and Google’s chairman planning a trip to North Korea. Read more…
Austin Wintory, Grammy-nominated composer. Apps to help keep New Year’s resolutions. Ben Horowitz, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Read more…
On the morning of New Year’s Day, many iPhone users were affected by a bug in the Do Not Disturb feature, a feature that Apple promoted in a commercial broadcast this week. Read more…
Last year was generally a pretty good one for Silicon Valley companies in Washington. But 2013 is likely to bring fresh scrutiny, especially over whether and how to allow consumers to limit tracking of their online lives. Read more…
The Internet removed the stigma from vanity publishing and, more important, most of the cost. As a result, millions of people have fulfilled their dream of becoming an author. For a much smaller group, technology is just beginning to enable a related but much more specialized pursuit; they are becoming publishers. Read more…
Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Monday, selections include people showing off their Christmas guns on Instagram, Electronic Arts receiving more than $9 million in tax credits from Florida and Zynga retiring 11 of its games. Read more…
