Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire founder of closed file-sharing site Megaupload, has won back cars, cash and property seized in a January 2012 raid. Requests from police to extend the length…
Facebook users in the U.S. will soon be able to see which of their friends are nearby using a new feature the company is launching on Thursday. The “Nearby Friends”…
Dutch police have arrested a 14-year-old girl in Rotterdam after she sent American Airlines a threatening tweet on Sunday. The message became a viral sensation on Twitter after a user…
Google’s first-quarter earnings growth faltered as the Internet’s most influential company grappled with a persistent downturn in advertising prices while spending more money to hire employees and invest in daring…
Twitter Inc said it bought social data provider Gnip to provide enhanced data analytics capabilities to its business customers. Twitter did not disclose the price it paid for Gnip. “Together…
The basketball court at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion was teeming with young hackers this weekend as more than 4,000 students descended on the school for the second annual LA Hacks event….
Facebook began notifying users of its mobile app Wednesday that it will soon disable the app’s messaging feature. The Menlo Park, Calif., tech giant is instructing users to download the…
Facebook Inc said U.S. regulators have cleared its $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp, even as the Federal Trade Commission warned the two Internet companies on Thursday that they…
Online retailer Amazon said Thursday its buying digital comics company comiXology for an undisclosed sum. Amazon said the acquisition will help it offer more and better digital comic books and…
The co-founder and former chief executive of Maker Studios, Danny Zappin, filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing a shareholder vote on a takeover offer from Walt Disney Co, the Wall Street Journal…
For the first time, U.S. Internet advertising revenue has surpassed that of broadcast television thanks to sharp growth in mobile and digital video ads. That’s according to a report from…
An alarming lapse in Internet security has exposed millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information to potential theft. The breakdown revealed this week affects a widely used…
The actors and producers for HBO’s new sitcom “Silicon Valley” visited the region they will be mocking on national television starting this week. And in a place that only rarely…
Vine is branching out beyond the world of six-second videos by adding a new feature that makes it possible for users to privately message one another. The Twitter-owned social network…
Tech companies have not been shy about spending big bucks on up-and-coming startups in 2014. Facebook in particular has already dolled out more than $20 billion in some big-name acquisitions….
