Next year, half of the chips Intel sells to cloud businesses will be custom. The company is used to selling tens of millions of the same thing, but outfits like Google and Facebook need special features, and pay for them. Read more…
In an effort to move fast, phone apps like Uber, Lyft and Flywheel may be placing a premium on speed and in the process sacrificing safety.Read more…
A video documentary about some Chinese factories that assemble Apple products has refueled public attention on labor issues, like excessive work hours. Read more…
Investors are bullish on the company’s prospects, particularly its new subscription-based, Netflix-like business model.Read more…
White House officials said the hacking episode had become a major concern at the upper levels of government, including President Obama.Read more…
Uber agreed to a three-month hiatus while lawmakers create a regulatory framework under which the company can operate.Read more…
The photo and video sharing service is deleting fake and spam accounts, resulting in sharp drops in the number of followers listed for top celebrities and brands.Read more…
The man is accused of picking up a young woman in Boston on Dec. 6 while presenting himself as the driver for a ride-sharing service.Read more…
The hack at Sony underscores the need for more secure online communication systems. That is, if people are willing to use them.Read more…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a suit in federal court on Wednesday, saying millions of dollars in unauthorized charges were put on consumers’ bills.Read more…
Iowa’s plan to introduce a smartphone app for electronic driver’s licenses comes with a host of data security and privacy challenges. Read more…
The popular ride-hailing start-up said it would add more tools and safety programs to improve the company’s screening of its drivers.Read more…
After some miscues and failed experiments, BlackBerry is getting back on track with the BlackBerry Classic, a throwback device that combines modern amenities with the keyboard and power features its users love. Read more…
Google’s critics are turning to state attorneys general to push the company to censor illegal content and sites from search results. Read more…
The latest gaming consoles can do more than ever. So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that their electrical consumption is going up as well.Read more…
Facebook is in the crosshairs of the Dutch privacy regulator, which is investigating the social network’s revamped privacy policy to see if it complies with the country’s tough data protection rules.Read more…
T-Mobile USA said on Tuesday that it would allow customers to roll their unused mobile Internet data into the next month’s phone bill. Read more…
The number of Europeans who regularly use the Internet has doubled, to 65 percent of the 28-bloc’s 500 million inhabitants, since 2006, though there remains large differences in Internet usage within the 28-member bloc.Read more…
Concern about technology — the printing press, the steam engine or the computer — supplanting humans is not new. But this time may be different.Read more…
The new companies who recently agreed to work with the service include SunTrust, USAA and Staples. Ten more banks, including TD Bank North America and Commerce Bank, will back the new form of payment on Tuesday. Read more…
China, the No. 2 market for digital advertising, has become so important to marketers that Alibaba and Baidu, two Chinese companies that operate almost entirely within their home country, have become two of the largest ad sellers in the world. Read more…
The hail-a-ride start-up responds to concerns that it does not handle its rider data seriously enough.Read more…
A class-action suit nearly a decade in the making has finally headed to the jury room in a federal court in Oakland, Calif.Read more…
A broad array of organizations in technology, media and other fields — including Apple, Amazon, National Public Radio and Fox News — rallied behind Microsoft’s effort to block American authorities from seizing a customer’s emails stored in Ireland.Read more…
It will take a while for the Chinese phone maker to catch up to Apple and Samsung.Read more…
Aspiring big data software companies find themselves training, advising and building pilot projects for their customers — acting far more as services companies than they hope to be eventually.Read more…
With the police cordoning off part of Sydney, Australia, over a hostage-taking on Monday, many who were stranded in the area were forced to pay roughly four times the normal Uber rate, according to complaints on social media.Read more…
The expansion of Amazon Prime benefits, as well as the company’s many other projects, appears to be fueled in part by fattened margins on physical books.Read more…
Social media companies are often reluctant to become arbiters of appropriate and inappropriate speech online.Read more…
The ruling, which only applies to Paris and relates to the budget UberPop service, allows the service to continue, though it restricts the company’s advertisement to the public.Read more…