The Street View project, a plan to photograph and map the world’s streets, also involved gathering information about local wireless networks.
A former state investigator looking into Google’s Street View has identified the so-called Engineer Doe.
The deal, which gives Microsoft a 17.6 percent stake, values the Nook unit at $1.7 billion and bolsters the bookseller’s efforts to make its digital business the linchpin of its future growth.
A new survey by law professors at the University of California at Berkeley suggests that most Americans are uneasy with the idea that their phones could divulge behavioral and personal information to merchants.
The Pebble, a watch being developed to work with smartphones, has raised more than $7 million in financing on Kickstarter, a case that has signified the site’s coming of age.
The Braiser, a project by the television analyst and lawyer Dan Abrams, will arrive online in mid-May and cover chefs who have cultivated worldwide reputations.
The deals site announced on Monday that it was adding two new board members with financial and operational expertise.
Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age and ill suited to today’s digital economy.
Google’s collecting of personal information from unsuspecting households was a program supervisors knew about, according to new details from the full text of a regulatory report.
There’s no easy way for American consumers to track the data dealers that share and sell their information. But a reporter tried her own experiment.
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Small start-ups that make money often find it difficult to recruit additional investment. By keeping their revenue at zero, they can pluck a projected valuation out of thin air.
Buzz Bissinger’s postscript to “Friday Night Lights” was doing well as an e-book. Then a giveaway involving Apple and Starbucks became a pricing dispute with Amazon.
Ever get frustrated trying to read an e-book in a darkened room? Behold, the self-illuminating Glow Light Nook from Barnes & Noble.
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