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Apple Margin Concerns Fade, Focus Shifts to iPhone Launch

A rise in margins has raised hopes that Apple Inc may be able to hold the line on pricing ahead of the launch of new iPhones later this year. Apple’s…

Twitter Admits to Diversity Problem in Workforce

Twitter acknowledged that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs, just like several other major companies in Silicon Valley. The lack of…

Level 3 to Buy TW Telecom for About $5.6 Billion

Level 3 Communications Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to buy TW Telecom in a deal worth about $5.6 billion. The Internet and telecommunications company says the acquisition will…

GPS Tracking Case Has Left Unsettled Questions

A 2-year-old Supreme Court decision has caused more confusion than clarity on how police may track the whereabouts of criminal suspects, illustrating how hard it is for the slow-moving judicial…

Apple Exchanges ‘Overheating’ European USB Power Adapters

A European USB iPhone charger sold between October 2009 and September 2012 “may overheat and pose a safety risk”, says manufacturer, Apple. The US firm is offering to exchange the…

Computers Replace Humans Reading Weather Reports

Two outpost offices of the National Weather Service in Alaska are finally ending what has been a bygone practice for most of the nation for almost two decades – using…

Amazon Launches Music Streaming for Prime Members

Amazon’s newly announced music streaming service is yet another attempt by the company to move beyond e-commerce and infuse itself into the daily lives of Americans with an increasing number…

Intel Lifts Revenue Forecasts on Business PC Sales

Intel on Thursday raised its revenue guidance, saying sales of computers for businesses have been stronger than expected. The world’s largest chipmaker is now forecasting revenue of $13.4 billion to…

Tweet Self-Propagates Through Tweetdeck

A tweet containing computer code has started propagating itself through Twitter by taking advantage of a security flaw in Twitter’s TweetDeck application. In response, Twitter shut down the application’s access…

Mozilla to Sell ‘$25’ Firefox OS Smartphones in India

Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, has announced it will start selling low-cost smartphones in India within the “next few months”. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, the firm’s…

Google Buying Satellite Maker Skybox for $500M

Google is buying Skybox Imaging in a deal that could serve as a launching pad for the Internet company to send its own fleet of satellites to take aerial pictures…

Video: The New Look of OS X Yosemite

“We reconsidered every element of the Mac interface, large and small. The result is something that feels fresh, but still inherently familiar. Completely new, yet completely Mac.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ7kqwbqeiI

Web Hosting Company Godaddy Files for IPO

Web hosting company GoDaddy is filing for an initial public offering. The company known for its racy Super Bowl commercials says it has 12 million customers and is the largest…

Searchable Books Database is ‘Fair Use’

A New York federal appeals court says the creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…

Flickr is Ditching Third-Party Logins from Google, Facebook

Yahoo said it will discontinue third party logins, like Facebook and Google, for its photo sharing service Flickr, instead requiring everyone to have a Yahoo ID. Users can expect to…