Technology: Google+ boss Vic Gundotra quits after eight years
The man who created social network Google+ is to leave the company, the search giant has confirmed. Vic Gundotra had been at Google since 2007,...
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Technology: Facebook buys fitness app firm
Facebook has added a Finnish firm that makes a fitness tracking app to its ever-increasing portfolio of purchases. Helsinki-based ProtoGeo created the Moves app that...
US: High court to hear dispute about TV over Internet
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty years after failing to convince the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings, big media companies are back...
Technology: Instagram users left frustrated and angry after photo-sharing website stops working
Many people took to Twitter to post angry messages and question why the site had gone down Users of the photo-sharing website Instagram have been...
Technology: Amazon aims for TV business with free video streaming: WSJ
(Reuters) – Online retailer Amazon.com Inc plans to enter the battle for living-room viewership in the coming months, launching a free, ad-supported streaming TV service,...
Technology: Facebook buying virtual-reality company for $2B
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is buying virtual reality company Oculus, betting $2 billion that its technology will become a new way for people to...
Technology: Apple in talks with Comcast for streaming-TV service: WSJ
(Reuters) – Apple Inc is in talks with Comcast Corp to enter into a deal for a streaming-television service that would allow Apple set-top boxes...
Technology: Alibaba Group seeking U.S. listing in third-quarter: sources
(Reuters) – China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is planning a U.S. IPO in the third quarter of this year, people familiar with the...
Technology: Sina Weibo files for $500 million U.S. IPO
(Reuters) – Twitter-like messaging service Weibo Corp filed on Friday to raise $500 million via a U.S. initial public offering, as Chinese companies flock to...
Technology: Mind your wallet: why the underworld loves bitcoin
(Reuters) – Criminals may already have made off with up to $500 million worth of bitcoins since the virtual currency launched in 2009 – and...