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Facebook Users, Others React to Gender Options

Facebook announced Thursday that its 159 million U.S. users now have dozens of options for completing the gender question on their profiles. The social media giant has been working with…

Pentatonix: The Evolution of Vocals

      Move over Glee, there’s a new sensation hitting the nation: Pentatonix. This group, so named for “the  world’s most widely recognized five-note music scale,” is a quintent comprised of members Scott…

Facebook Barrels Ahead on 10th Anniversary

It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online. They did. And in the…

Yahoo Tops List of Most-Visited Websites from Desktop Computers

Yahoo edged out Google, Microsoft, and Facebook to top a list of the most-visited websites in the United States, web analytics firm ComScore says. The ComScore list of the top…

Waze CEO: We’re Completely Different from Google

“I’ve never worked at a large company. I never had a badge,” said Waze CEO Noam Bardin, who led the navigation company to acquisition by Google last year, addressing the…

Tech Industry: Obama’s NSA Reforms ‘Insufficient’

SAN FRANCISCO – Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S. surveillance as a step in the right direction, but chided him for not embracing more…

Major Tech Companies Unite to Fight Government Surveillance

Eight of the world’s largest technology companies have combined efforts to launch a website called “Reform Government Surveillance,” designed to expose and counter governmental violations of people’s privacy. The companies…

Sloan ‘Tech Trek’ Students Hit Road

Dozens of MIT Sloan School of Management MBA students will test the job market waters this week when they visit some of the nation’s top companies on their annual job-hunting,…

Apple, Facebook are Big Market Movers

NEW YORK Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE KB Home, up $1.28 at $18.19 Citigroup removes…

Obama to Meet with Tech CEOs Amid NSA Concerns

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is meeting Tuesday with executives from leading technology companies, including Google, Twitter and Apple. The White House says the meeting will focus on efforts to…

Instagram Launches Direct Messaging Feature

NEW YORK — Instagram has added a new feature that lets users share photos and videos with up to 15 people rather than everyone who follows them on the popular…

Tech Giants Call for Controls on Gov’t Snooping

LONDON – Major technology companies, stung by poor publicity for having helped the U.S. government access personal data, on Monday issued an open letter to President Barack Obama asking for…

Tech Giants Call on President and Congress to Rein in Internet Spy Programs

In an unusual joint statement, leading Internet companies called Monday for new legal restrictions on government spy programs that the companies view as an increasing threat both to their customers’…

Flipboard Expands into Personal Shopping Catalogs

Personal magazine creator Flipboard is expanding into shopping catalogs just in time for the holiday shopping season. A tool released Monday will allow Flipboard users to display their gift wish…

Bitstrips: Turn Your Life Into a Comic Strip

Four out of five stars. If you use Facebook, you’ve most likely seen a comic strip or two featuring one of your friends. The recently updated app, Bitstrips available for…