App scans bar-goers to track age, gender
SAN FRANCISCO — A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Business
Iran to sue Google over unlabeled gulf
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Business
Google-Oracle jury at impasse on key issue
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle's copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of a partial verdict that found Google relied on unlicensed technology while building its popular Android software for mobile devices.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Business
Reality check for Google's augmented reality
You know that story we had last week about Google Glass, the augmented reality device that lets you see the world with subtitles? Well, not so...
Date: 04/11/2012 | Bizblog
Right before your eyes
Google glasses will dangle messages, more in front of you
Date: 04/05/2012 | Business
Android Market checks out, Google Play moves in
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's digital marketplace for mobile applications, music, movies and books is unifying under a new name in an effort to spruce up the shopping experience.
Date: 03/07/2012 | Business
Google's new ‘privacy' policy would be less creepy if users could opt out
Several weeks ago, I purchased some exercise videos online. Then I noticed that whenever I did an Internet search about anything, an ad for that same video package and other similar workout videos kept popping up. It was spooky.
Date: 03/04/2012 | Business
Q&A: Google to dig deeper into users' lives
SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're amazed -- and maybe even a little alarmed -- about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. As of Thursday, Google is operating under a streamlined privacy policy that enables the Internet's most powerful company to dig even deeper into the lives of its...
Date: 03/01/2012 | Business
Better Internet privacy sought
NEW YORK -- The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go.
Date: 02/23/2012 | Business
Traffic safety officials want automakers to stifle dash distractions in moving vehicles
WASHINGTON -- Auto dashboards are becoming an arcade of text messages, GPS images, phone calls and web surfing, the government says, and it's asking carmakers to curb those distractions when vehicles are moving.
Date: 02/18/2012 | Business
Judge dismisses some 2010 oil spill claims
A judge in New Orleans has dismissed all of the federal court claims against a BP contractor sued over the deadly rig explosion and massive oil spill it spawned in the Gulf of Mexico. None of the plaintiffs' attorneys or other companies sued over the 2010 disaster formally objected before U.S.
Date: 02/14/2012 | Business
Privacy group sues FTC to stop new Google privacy policy
SAN FRANCISCO -- A privacy watchdog has filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission in a bid to stop Google Inc. from rolling out its new privacy policy.
Date: 02/09/2012 | Business
Google tracking you online to tailor your searches
LOS ANGELES -- Google Inc. is overhauling the way it treats user data, linking information across its array of email, video and social-networking services so that information gathered in one place can be used in another.
Date: 01/25/2012 | Business
White House concerned over online piracy bills
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration raised concerns Saturday about efforts in Congress that it said would undermine "the dynamic, innovative global Internet," urging lawmakers to approve measures this year that balance the need to fight piracy and counterfeiting against an open Internet.
Date: 01/15/2012 | Nation & World
Business Briefs: Builders making slow comeback with apartments
The depressed housing market has held the economy back for four years. No longer. Home construction has finally begun a gradual comeback and should add to the nation's economic growth in 2011, a turning point in the recovery from the Great Recession. The main reason appears to be a positive...
Date: 12/21/2011 | Business
Silent camera apps open door for unsavory photos
TOKYO _ Cases of smartphone users secretly photographing unsuspecting targets have been on the rise, thanks to applications that silence the camera shutter sound. But there is no legal impediment to creating and selling these software programs, even as the apps are tied to complaints of...
Date: 12/20/2011 | Business
Google donates millions to fight slavery
Tech giant Google announced Wednesday it is donating $11.5 million to several coalitions fighting to end the modern-day slavery of some 27 million people around the world.
Date: 12/15/2011 | Business
Business Briefs: Everett firm bought for $24 million in cash
Astronics Corp. said Friday that it bought the privately held Ballard Technology, Inc., an Everett-based company. Ballard Technology designs and produces avionics equipment for defense and commercial aerospace applications. Astronics, a high-performance lighting, electrical power and automated test...
Date: 12/03/2011 | Business
Lawmakers, Twitter in dispute over tweets by Taliban
WASHINGTON -- Some members of Congress are urging the popular website Twitter to stop hosting pro-Taliban tweets that celebrate attacks against American and allied forces in Afghanistan.
Date: 11/24/2011 | Nation & World
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL fight Google for online ads
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are teaming up to sell some of the online advertising space that they have had trouble selling on their own. The alliance announced Tuesday represents a joint attack on Google. The Internet search leader has become an even more powerful force in Internet marketing since...
Date: 11/09/2011 | Business
U.S. report blasts China, Russia for cybercrimes
WASHINGTON -- Cyberattacks by Chinese and Russian intelligence services, as well corporate hackers in those countries, have swallowed up large amounts of high-tech American research and development data, and that stolen information has helped build their economies, U.S. intelligence agencies have...
Date: 11/04/2011 | Nation & World
Google lends a hand to firms in Mobile
Google Inc. is heading far away from its California headquarters for a new campaign to help businesses build websites for mobile devices: The Alabama city of Mobile. That's pronounced moh-BEEL.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Business
Google doubles its spending on lobbying
Google is dropping a lot of cash on lobbying, hitting an all-time high.The Internet search giant, under heavy scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and regulators, shelled out $2.4 million on lobbying this quarter, nearly double what it spent a year ago.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Business
Microsoft, Samsung expand smartphone partnership
NEW YORK -- Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have agreed to cross-license one another's patent portfolios, with Microsoft getting royalties for the mobile phones and tablets Samsung sells that run Google Inc.'s Android operating system.
Date: 09/29/2011 | Business
How do the iPad and Kindle Fire compare?
A look at some of the major differences between Amazon's just-announced tablet computer, the Kindle Fire, and Apple's popular iPad:
Date: 09/29/2011 | Business
Groupon slashes stated revenue
SAN FRANCISCO -- Groupon Inc. chopped its stated revenue by more than half in an updated SEC filing Friday as it corrected the way it accounts for money it receives selling coupons.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Business
Facebook spawns a network of new advertising partners
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Facebook is relying on a fast-growing network of independent partners to build an advertising sector that some say may ultimately rival the network of companies that grew up in the past decade around Google's search revolution.
Date: 09/02/2011 | Business
Microsoft, Google have new patent feud
Tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google are acting like a couple of feuding starlets in a public online spat over -- wait for it -- patents.
Date: 08/06/2011 | Business
Apps let users mock the law; authorities aren't laughing
LOS ANGELES -- Want to fool merchants with a fake ID? Hack someone's text messages? Or how about tracking where your co-workers are, without their knowing it?There's an app for that.
Date: 07/17/2011 | Business
Google is changing your brain, study finds
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new study confirms it: Google is altering your brain. More precisely, our growing dependence on the Internet has changed how — and what — our brains choose to remember.
Date: 07/15/2011 | Nation & World
Google earnings increase by 36 percent
Google has ushered in new CEO Larry Page with second-quarter earnings that were far better than analysts expected.
Date: 07/15/2011 | Business
China signs deal for 88 Airbus A320 jets
China signed an agreement Tuesday to buy 88 new Airbus aircraft in the A320 family, the European plane maker said. Airbus CEO Tom Enders signed the agreement with the China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. on the sidelines of a visit to Berlin by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. As part of the...
Date: 06/29/2011 | Business
Everett port director to testify before Congress about jobs
Port of Everett Director John Mohr is to testify before Congress on Tuesday on how ports create jobs. Mohr will speak at a hearing of the subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation on how helping the maritime transportation system creates jobs and boosts exports. Others set to testify...
Date: 06/14/2011 | Business
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