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Lauren Goode in News on May 9 at 1:23 pm PT
Google has
launched an updated version of
Google+ for iPhone, with larger profile pics, optical cues, a more prominent “+1” atop the news stream and other visual enhancements to create a more eye-friendly app. Google+ app users can also sync photos from their iPhones to a Google+ album, use mobile “Hangouts” to video chat with friends and view a “Nearby” news feed to see status updates from people around the same location.
Amir Efrati and Don Clark in News on April 29 at 8:34 pm PT
A Google Inc. engineer told others at the company about his plan to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes, but the practice continued for two years after the internal disclosures, a Federal Communications Commission investigation found.
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Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15 at 1:18 am PT
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $25,000 fine on Google Inc., accusing the search giant of deliberately obstructing an investigation into whether the company violated federal rules when its street-mapping service collected and stored data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010.
Kara Swisher in News on March 14 at 8:04 am PT
There’s always yet another wacky money-making scheme on the horizon at Yahoo!
Kara Swisher in News on March 8 at 7:03 am PT
The weather media giant picks a mobile expert as a director.
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Lauren Goode in News on March 7 at 7:59 am PT
Facebook users in
parts of Europe, including the U.K., were unable to access their Facebook accounts early Wednesday morning, due to what the company said were “technical difficulties.” Facebook said in a statement that the issue was now resolved. During the outage, some Facebook users took to Twitter to complain, posting with the hashtag “facebookdown.” Facebook last suffered a
brief outage in early February, shortly after filing to go public.
Kara Swisher in News on February 24 at 1:46 am PT
Is AOL ready to come about? Hard to see.
Kara Swisher in Media on February 22 at 11:07 pm PT
The online communications network goes hunting for talent at search giant.
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John Jurgensen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 17 at 11:31 am PT
Hollywood veteran Brian Robbins has a new production studio under construction and 35 shows in development. There’s a sitcom set in a high-school bathroom, a talk show modeled on “The View” but hosted by young Twitter celebrities and a series about an outlandish teen wrestling league.
