Google increases user privacy controls
By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) – Google increased privacy controls for users and rolled out a website on Monday that answers frequently asked questions in response to increasing concern over how the search giant collects and uses its massive amounts of data. Google’s new website answers frequently asked questions, such as whether the company sells personal data and what information is given to advertisers. In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified
For Easton LaChappelle, a 19-year-old from Colorado in the United States (U.S.), the difficulty with robotics has never been the technology itself – something he says he managed to master in a matter of months from his bedroom in his parent’s house – but the cost. The technology used by most robotic arms and hands on the market – and many more of those in development – typically comes with
BlackBerry Ltd and television host Ryan Seacrest’s keyboard company Typo Products have agreed to settle a patent dispute over the sale of smartphone keyboards of a certain size, the Canadian smartphone maker said on Monday. Under the terms of the settlement, Typo will stop selling keyboards for smartphones and other devices with screens smaller than 7.9 inches, BlackBerry said. In February, a U.S. district court sanctioned Typo, co-founded by “American
Stocks aren’t cheap, but money is. Debt and the M&A cycle are starting to bring out buyers for a market that’s been rising for six years.
Intel is running into technological limitations that Altera’s intellectual property can potentially solve, David Garrity tells CNBC.
There are plenty of named wrongdoers in the ignition-switch scandal, but that may not be good enough for prosecutors mulling criminal charges.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a win to Bank of America Corp by ruling that a second mortgage on an “underwater” home – one with a mortgage balance exceeding its current value – cannot by voided during bankruptcy. On a unanimous vote, the court ruled against two homeowners, David Caulkett and Edelmiro Toledo-Cardona, in Florida, where many homeowners have struggled to pay their mortgages following the recent housing
U.S. consumer spending was unexpectedly flat in April as households cut back on purchases of automobiles and continued to boost savings, suggesting the economy was struggling to gain momentum early in the second quarter. In a separate report, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its index of national factory activity was 52.8 in May, up from April’s reading of 51.5.
The Federal Reserve should consider lifting interest rates sooner rather than later to tackle speculative bubbles, Robert Shiller told CNBC.
Wall Street’s generous supply of funds to U.S. oil drillers helped create the American energy boom. Now that same access to easy money is keeping them going, despite oil prices that are languishing around $60 a barrel.
