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Tech Sector Heats Up: Google and IBM Post Strong Earnings
Technology titans Google and IBM delivered surprisingly strong earnings results this week, in a positive sign for the tech sector

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Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all Washington Post (blog) Until Tuesday, North Korea appeared on Google Maps as a near-total white space — no roads, no train lines, no parks and no restaurants. The only thing labeled was the capital city, Pyongyang. This all changed when Google, on Tuesday, rolled out a ... See all stories on this topic »

Google sued by iPhone users in UK over Safari tracking CNET Peeved that their online privacy was violated, roughly a dozen people are suing Google in a class action suit, according to The Guardian. The case alleges that Google secretly tracked their Internet habits via cookies in the Safari Web browser. The ... See all stories on this topic »

On Data Privacy Day, Twitter and Google focus on government requests CNN International (CNN) -- In 2009 the U.S government dubbed January 28 "Data Privacy Day." Four years later, it's the government's own actions to obtain personal information that are in the spotlight, thanks to new reports from Google and Twitter. The goal of Data ... See all stories on this topic »

Google sued in UK over Safari tracking USA TODAY LONDON (AP) — A British law firm says that about a dozen Apple customers are suing Internet search leader Google in the U.K. over its alleged secret tracking of their Internet browsing habits. London-based law firm Olswang said that 12 Apple users ... See all stories on this topic »

Can You Hack Chrome OS? Google Might Give You $3 Million PC Magazine Google today announced its third Pwnium hacking competition, but this year's contest - and more than $3 million in prize money - will focus on Chrome OS rather than the Chrome browser. Pwnium 3 will take place at the CanSecWest security conference in ... See all stories on this topic »

What Does Google Do If the Government Comes Looking for Your Emails? The Atlantic Google recognizes that many of these requests are legitimate, but it certainly doesn't want to be in the business of rubber-stamping them either. In a post on its official company blog, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, spelled out the ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Google pledges fight over government access to users' email NBCNews.com (blog) Google will lobby Washington this year to make it harder for law enforcement authorities to gain access to emails and other digital messages. In a blog post on Monday, linked to Data Privacy Day, Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, said the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google will not oppose clampdown on tax avoidance, chairman says The Guardian Google used the tax haven of Bermuda for £6bn of transactions, while paying just £6m in corporation tax in the UK, in 2012. It defines the UK staff and operations as a "service arm" of the business, and uses an Irish subsidiary to collect advertising ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Google Offers $3.14159 Million In Total Rewards For Chrome OS Hacking Contest Forbes Those prizes are a significant bump over Google's already generous rewards for hackers who demonstrate flaws in its products and share information to help fix them. Though the total, pi-sized bounty is mostly a marketing gimmick–Google has only ended ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Google Says Electronic Snooping by Governments Should Be More Difficult New York Times (blog) That is a problem, according to Google, which said it had received 21,389 requests for information about 33,634 of its users in the second half of last year, an increase of 70 percent in three years. Google handed over some personal data in two-thirds ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

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