government

Stop All That Poking: Facebook Filing Temporarily Crashes SEC Web Site

Kara Swisher in News on February 1 at 2:28 pm PT

Someone’s going to lose an eye.

News Byte

Ex-Staffers File Suit Against FDA for Monitoring Personal Email

Lauren Goode in News on January 30 at 12:11 pm PT

A half-dozen former FDA employees have filed suit against the agency, offering evidence it secretly monitored their personal email for two years after they took their concerns about medical-device approvals to Congress. According to the Washington Post, the staffers contend the workplace monitoring was improper because the private activity was legal; the FDA may counter with allegations that confidential information was being disclosed.

“Menry” Is Back at HP: CEO Meg Whitman Hires Longtime PR Guru Henry Gomez as Top Flack

Kara Swisher in News on January 10 at 2:18 pm PT

Together again!

Yahoo Okays Initial Term Sheet to Sell Stakes Back to Asian Partners — While Also Hoping to Keep PE Firms in Fray

Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2011 at 11:23 am PT

It’s on.

2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is back in New York with his annual predictions for the world of tech in 2012.

Google Reports Surge in Government Requests for User Data

Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 25, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT

U.S. government requests for data on Google users for the first half of 2011 increased 29 percent over the previous six-month time frame, according to a report released by Google today.

News Byte

Amazon Launches Government-Oriented Cloud Computing Service

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 16, 2011 at 4:45 pm PT

Three months after America’s first chief technology officer recommended that the federal government move as much of its IT infrastructure to the cloud as possible in order to save a few billion dollars, cloud provider Amazon says it has just such a service ready to roll. Amazon announced today the launch of GovCloud, a “region” within its Amazon Web Services aimed specifically at U.S. government agencies and their security needs.

Motoogle: BOOM! The Mobile Business Just Got Completely Blown Up

Kara Swisher in Mobile on August 15, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Things that make you go “Boom!!!”: Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola.

DARPA: That’s Mach 20, Baby

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2011 at 6:50 am PT

The Defense Department’s secret project agency is launching an aircraft today that does 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound. Sweeeet.