Prismatic chief Bradford Cross believes that online social networks should go beyond following people to pursuing interests. To that end, the San Francisco-based startup on Thursday released a Prismatic app that lets users of Apple mobile gadgets tap…
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The United States has signed anti-tax fraud pacts with six countries and territories including some considered tax havens, the US Treasury Department said Thursday. The Netherlands, Malta, and the British territories of Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey and…
Spain’s data protection watchdog ordered US Internet giant Google on Thursday to pay a 900,000-euro fine for “serious violations” of users’ privacy. The Spanish Data Protection Agency accused the popular search provider of “illegal processing of personal…
What was hot in 2013. Topping Google’s search list was Fast & Furious star Paul Walker, 40, who died in a car crash on the last day of November. News of the actor’s death Nov. 30 of this year spiked to the top of Google’s list. Second was the Boston…
By Cale Guthrie Weissman On December 19, 2013 Sometimes the descriptor ‘entrepreneur’ is definitely pejorative. You’re at a party drinking a beer, minding your own business, and some dude comes up to you. He’s nice enough, is (of course) wearing…
Why is everybody making such a fuss about the latest Warren Buffett wind power purchase? Okay, so the legendary investor’s MidAmerican Energy Company has just ordered a huge mess of wind turbines from Siemens, but it was all the way back in May that…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.35 million ‘B’ shares in the company for tax purposes, US stock market regulators said on Thursday. These shares will allow Zuckerberg to retain power over Facebook because each has 10 voting rights. Proceeds…
Ready for a little bit of change, Spotify users? The popular music streaming service is getting ready to release a new, totally refreshed desktop application for Mac and Windows users in the very near future. According to a report by The Verge, who…
Though most computers that run Google’s Chrome OS come in the form of affordable laptops, LG has decided to target a new demographic with their latest computer, the Chromebase. Announced this morning by the company, the Chromebase is an all-in-one…
The Bank of England is to issue plastic banknotes for the first time in its history, it announced Wednesday, with Winston Churchill gracing the first run. The polymer note, carrying a value of £5 ($8.2, 6.0 euro), is to be released in 2016 — and as…