After being swept up in the furore over government spying on their customers, some of America's biggest tech companies are finally mounting a rearguard action. On December 9th a group of eight prominent firms including Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft launched an initiative to urge an international ban on the bulk collection of data by governments http://econ.st/1brSIan
Jeff Bezos's Mysterious Amazon
It's not the online retailer's prices but its costs that ought to worry investors
By
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
Dec. 6, 2013 6:04 p.m. ET
There's nothing like buying the Washington Post with pocket change to
get the media interested in the rest of your empire. That's been the
fate of Jeff Bezos and Amazon since last summer. He and his company have
been subjected to unprecedented media psychoanalysis—a process Mr.
Bezos has fed by going out of his way to make news lately. First he
simulated the salvation of the post office by hiring it to perform
Sunday deliveries. What the post office needs, of course, is more
profitable packages to deliver the other six days a...
Google India's mega online shopping festival starts Dec 11 Financial Express
Google India's mega online shopping festival, 'Great Online Shopping Festival' (GOSF), will be held between December 11 to 13. Intended to boost the adoption ...
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Google replaces buggy KitKat with another update CNET
Google
replaces buggy KitKat with another update. Nexus 5 owners, don't be
surprised when you get Android 4.4.2 KitKat, even though the last
Android update ...
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Google, Apple, and Microsoft Agree: NSA Spying Undermines ... The Atlantic
Google,
Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and AOL all have
an interest in restoring public trust in their products and averting new
regulatory ...
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Google's Death Wish TechNewsWorld
If Google's
recent move to robots that are designed to take millions of
manufacturing jobs doesn't kill it, I'm very sure it eventually will
come up with an idea that ...
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Google catches French govt spoofing its domain certificates ZDNet
Google
states that the certificate was used in a commercial device, on a
private network, to inspect encrypted traffic. According to the web
giant, users on that ...
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EU: Google shouldn't discriminate against opt-outs Helena Independent Record
Europe's top regulator says he has asked Google not to discriminate against companies that don't want it to use their content in Google's specialized search ...
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Google Nexus 5 review: A worthy successor to the Nexus 4, but... IBNLive
New Delhi: It's been two weeks since we posted our first impressions review of the Google Nexus 5 soon after it landed on Indian store shelves. After an ...
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Two Ways Google's Android Platform Is Helping Redefine the Tech ... TIME
Two Ways Google's
Android Platform Is Helping Redefine the Tech Industry. As I analyze
the industry, I've become increasingly aware that Android serves two ...
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Google doodle remembers computing pioneer Grace Hopper Christian Science Monitor
Monday's Google
doodle honors computing genius Grace Hopper on what would have been her
107th birthday, doodling her right where she spent much of her ...
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Condom to sex: Google's weird list of banned words for Android 4.4 ... IBNLive
New Delhi: It seems that Google now wants you to make use of words in a more careful and responsible way, and thus, has drawn off many words, including a ...
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