Intel has received a thumb's up from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed purchase of McAfee. The chipmaker confirmed the news yesterday ... read more »
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Heads up, Skype. Shortly after releasing software for audio and video chat as an open-source project called WebRTC as open-source software, Goog... read more »
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The topic for today's Senate Homeland Security hearing was supposed to be air cargo security. But in the wake of growing public concern about the ... read more »
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The Do Not Call list easily tops the list of the Federal Trade Commission's popular successes, with one official joking that that it became "the m... read more »
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In a victory for the free speech and privacy rights of Amazon.com customers, a federal judge ruled today that the company would not have to turn ove... read more »
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Google and the U.S. Department of Justice are said to be close to reaching a legal settlement over Google's intended $700 million acquisition of t... read more »
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PayPal, the popular online payment service owned by eBay, has "permanently restricted" the account hitherto used in fund-raising efforts by WikiLeak... read more »
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Julian Assange (Credit: Screenshot from &34'60 Minutes&34' interview) Julian Assange should have been arrested in Sweden as soon as a prosecutor ... read more »
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Italy has closed its antitrust investigation into Google after the company modified news and advertising provisions there. The issue arose in 20... read more »
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The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks launched in December agai... read more »
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Google, eager to strengthen its patent portfolio for a better chance in legal battles, is in the running to acquire 6,000 patents and patent applica... read more »
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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today introduced a revised version of a controversial bill that would give the Department of Justice and individuals new p... read more »
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AUSTIN, Texas--U.S. Sen. Al Franken wants tech savvy entrepreneurs to keep pushing Congress to protect Net neutrality. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.)... read more »
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I woke up this morning thinking about Meg Whitman. You see, I'm finding hard to come to terms with the fact that my campaign to become customer of th... read more »
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Add the Federal Communications Commission to the list of legal headaches for Google caused by its Wi-Fi spying debacle. The Wall Street Journal ... read more »
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A group of lawsuits filed yesterday by Priceline founder Walker Digital take aim at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and more than 100 other comp... read more »
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Data is often only as good as the tools used to help people understand what it means. (Credit: Google) Living amongst a sea of data can be a great... read more »
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Antitrust expert Gary Reback outlines how regulators might one day try to take down Google. (Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET) WASHINGTON--Fresh off the ne... read more »
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It's called "regulation by merger condition." And at the Federal Communications Commission, it's a problem that has become epidemic. As part of a dra... read more »
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Google and the state of Connecticut have reached an agreement that won't force a courtroom showdown over Google's Wi-Fi spying scandal. Connecticut ... read more »
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