January 31, 2015 Mind Your Manners, Companies Are Rating You by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Companies from Uber to Airbnb are rating their customers on degrees of promptness and politeness, but who owns the data that…
January 30, 2015 Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ by BRIAN X. CHEN and NATASHA SINGER By BRIAN X. CHEN and NATASHA SINGER The wireless carrier is under pressure from privacy groups after it introduced tracking code that can’t be…
January 30, 2015 Uber Accused of Lax Safety Practices by Delhi Woman by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The woman who says she was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver says in a lawsuit filed in California that the…
January 30, 2015 Reddit Issues First Transparency Report by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The popular message board gives insight into how often government agencies request data on Reddit users. Published: January 28, 2015 at…
January 30, 2015 F.C.C. Sharply Revises Definition of Broadband by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR The new broadband benchmark sets downloads at a speed of 25 megabits per second and uploads of 3 megabits per second….
January 30, 2015 With a Few Bits of Data, Researchers Identify ‘Anonymous’ People by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER Knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to…
January 30, 2015 Google Revenue Is Higher, but Profit Misses Expectations by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY The company’s results were squeezed by a number of temporary factors, including a strong dollar that ate into overseas sales. Published:…
January 29, 2015 Amazon Reports a Profit, Citing Prime as the Key by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD The company delivered better earnings than expected in the fourth quarter, breaking a recent pattern of disappointments. Published: January 29, 2015…
January 29, 2015 Amazon’s Got Mail by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Amazon’s latest foray: back-end email systems. Published: January 27, 2015 at 07:00PM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/1BqJWXF via IFTTT
January 29, 2015 Regulators Crack Down on Marketers of ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER TracFone Wireless, the largest provider of prepaid mobile service in the United States, agreed to pay $40 million to settle charges…