NEW YORK (AP) — Professional networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 current and former employees,...
Jon Brodkin, ARS TECHNICA (ArsTechnica.com)—After complaints about a program that offers cheap Internet service to poor people, Comcast today announced it will provide “up to six months” of free Internet...
(IDG News Service) – Facebook introduced an app on Thursday that will give mobile phone subscribers in Zambia access to a set of free basic mobile data...
(USA Today) – SAN FRANCISCO — Most of eBay’s U.S. workers — some 85% — are white and Asian. Nearly all of eBay’s U.S. technology...
(Los Angeles Times) – Amazon.com made its boldest move yet into the electronics hardware business by entering the fiercely competitive smartphone market earlier this month...
(BBC) – The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads from January next year. It also invited cities to compete...
(ZDNet) – Late Sunday re/code broke the news that Apple acquired Concept.io for $30 million. The company’s Swell app for iOS was best described by Liz Gannes as “Pandora-for-talk-radio” and was...
(Telegraph) – Online dating is a bit of a science experiment. Honestly, are there any websites out there that don’t treat their users as semi-consenting...
(ZDNet) – On July 30, Microsoft officials took the wraps off the first update to the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. A developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1...
(Tech Times) – Owners of the Cadillac 2015 ATS will include a Powermat, which will allow drivers and passengers of the vehicle to wirelessly charge their...
(Value Walk) – Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), in April, announced that it will start a separate Facebook Messenger app for the mobile devices. The social networking site has tested...
(Fierce Wireless) – T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) is launching a new family plan promotion that undercuts similar plans from other carriers by around $60 per month for...
(ZDNet) – On the same day as Google faced a grilling from European data watchdogs over its handling of right to be forgotten cases, it...
Skirting an upcoming trial, Apple agreed to pay $450 million last week to settle an antitrust lawsuit that alleged the company conspired with five book publishers to...
(DNA India) – Microsoft’s CEO announced on Tuesday that all versions of Windows will merge into one operating system for all devices. CEO Satya Nadella said...
(App Advice) – According to a new report from DigiTimes, Apple is planning on launching its bigger, 5.5-inch iPhone handset after the 4.7-inch model in order to avoid competition...
(HNGN) – Target’s new shopping app called “In A Snap” allows shoppers to simply scan the item in its magazine and purchase. Target, the second largest...
(Bloomberg) – Apple’s (AAPL) profit machine, the iPhone, has apparently been chugging away just fine for the last three months. Apple reported on Tuesday that it had sold...
(Forbes) – Netflix biggest hits give viewers up close and personal looks at two American institutions. House of Cards portrays the dark side of power in the federal government, while Orange...
(The Inquirer) – Apple reportedly has ordered “70 to 80 million” iPhone 6 units as it expects the handset to be its best-selling yet, the Wall...
By Julia Angwin Special to the NNPA from ProPublica (This story was co-published with Mashable.) A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors...
by Cora Jackson-Fossett Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel Practically every young person downloads applications or apps to their phones or tablets. Their...
Peter Svensson, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon is boosting the upload speeds of nearly all its FiOS connections to match the download speeds,...
(The Inquirer) – Google and Samsung reportedly are at each other’s throats again, and this time it’s about smartwatches. That’s according to The Information (paywalled), which reports that...
(USA Today) SAN FRANCISCO — Civil rights activists are turning up pressure on Twitter to publicly release the gender and ethnic breakdown of its flock...
