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…
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…
Big retailers are muscling in on the likes of Visa, MasterCard and Google in a fiercely competitive and growing mobile payment market that promises to cut transaction costs and increase customer loyalty….
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….
Nest Labs, the maker of smart thermostats that Google acquired for $3.2 billion, called a halt to all sales of its smoke alarms on Thursday after it discovered a possible defect that…
Europe’s leading consumer rights advocacy group has joined an antitrust complaint against Google because it considers the display of some search results biased. The BEUC will join an existing group…
Facebook is giving more details about its effort to connect remote parts of the world to the Internet – and it involves drones, lasers and satellites. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said…
The crypto-currency craze has had a quick-riches feel of striking gold _ or maybe even has the sound of getting in on the ground floor of the next Google or…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to assure leading Internet and tech executives that his administration is committed to protecting people’s privacy, a week before a self-imposed deadline for a…
Google Inc. on Tuesday announced the initial availability of its Android Wear operating system, a version of its framework for mobile devices that is designed specifically for wearable technology such…
Google will launch an Android developers kit for wearables, according to Sundar Pichai, head of Android and Chrome, while speaking at the SXSW conference Monday. While Pichai did not say…
When a tech consultant showed off her Google Glass the other night at the Haight Street bar Molotov’s, the result was explosive — and reflected a growing debate over whether…
Nearly all of us need to make more time for fitness. Finding that time, though, can seem impossible. But what if you could wedge that workout in at work? If…
Local businesses will have a chance to develop an online presence with the help of Google and Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the…
Google has acquired Israeli start-up SlickLogin. No financial details have been disclosed but the acquisition is believed to be on an “acqui-hiring” basis, in other words buying the staff and…
