The suit filed in Superior Court in Washington seeks an injunction to make sure Facebook puts in place safeguards to monitor users’ data
The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018,
In late morning trade, Tesla shares skidded 7.8% to $309.36 following the release of the wide-ranging interview in The New York Times
Some analysts say the concerns about cybercrime are overblown, and that sophisticated cybercriminals can easily hide their tracks
In his first congressional appearance, the Facebook founder answered questions for nearly five hours as he sought to quell the storm over privacy.
CEO Alexander Nix boasted about entrapping politicians and secretly operating in elections around the world through shadowy front companies.
A satellite firm that invited the public to find a plane that went missing in early March now has three-million people participating in the programme.
Microsoft and Google have become embroiled in a bitter dispute over who is the fairest of them all for online shopping.
The 2012 US presidential election campaign is being fought with tweets, hashtags, Facebook updates and emails in a battle for digital supremacy.
Apple’s victory in a landmark US patent case against Samsung could reshape the mobile sector and slow the momentum of Google and its Android system.
The public knowledge website is more than a decade old and remains among the top 10 Internet sites in the world, but some say it is becoming dowdy.
The US is seeing a natural gas boom thanks to discoveries of abundant shale gas, and at the same time a groundswell of opposition from critics.
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/ 16 September 2009
The recession in the United States "is very likely over" but its economy remains weak, Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke says.
A summit seeking a new economic agenda for the US kicks off on Monday, with debate among leaders aiming to find ways to maintain leadership.
A growing number of banks are eyeing quick repayment of US government capital injections after "stress tests" showed major lenders are healthy.
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/ 20 December 2008
United States car makers mulled painful reforms on Saturday after President George Bush unveiled a $13,4-billion rescue loan for the industry.
With Yahoo! facing pressure from a corporate raider, the internet giant has reopened discussions on a tie-up with Microsoft, but for a new deal that would probably not be an outright takeover. The two firms said over the weekend that they were exploring new options two weeks after Microsoft withdrew its offer to acquire the struggling internet pioneer.
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/ 7 December 2006
Most internet users already know it: spam is on the rise again as the senders of unwanted e-mail advertisements find new ways to circumvent filtering systems. A study released last month by the security firm Postini found that unwanted messages now account for 91% of all e-mail, and over the past 12 months the daily volume of spam rose by 120%.
United States authorities are raising the stakes against internet gambling with their biggest prosecution effort to date, but backers of online wagering are not yet ready to fold. An indictment unsealed on Monday charges the operators, British-incorporated BetOnSports, with illegally taking bets from US residents and failing to pay US taxes on $3,3-billion in wagers from the United States.
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/ 3 February 2006
Enron’s chief executives concealed key data before the company’s 2001 collapse that would have shown two supposedly fast-growing businesses were "underperforming", a witness testified. Mark Koenig, the first witness in the fraud and conspiracy trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, said assurances from the chief executives masked major problems.
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/ 2 February 2006
Jurors in the Enron fraud trial began to hear about some of the financial tricks and gimmickry that kept the company flying high before its spectacular collapse in late 2001. And many of these tricks, former Enron investor relations chief Mark Koenig testified on Wednesday, were done with the full knowledge of the top executives of the company.
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/ 30 January 2006
Judgement day arrived for Enron’s two former chief executives on Monday, about four years after the fraud that rocked the corporate world. Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were set to go on trial in Houston federal court, facing hefty prison terms for securities fraud and conspiracy in connection with the 2001 meltdown of the energy giant that was one of the largest United States corporations.
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/ 19 October 2005
Internet blogs are getting a boost from the big search engines, which make the personal journals more accessible and move them toward mainstream journalism, analysts say. Yahoo this month said it would include blogs on all its news searches, saying it would give readers more access to "grassroots journalism."