Why European Parliament Is Picking a Fight With Google (video)

Thursday the European Parliament voted  in favor of breaking up Google (the vote is not binding). The world's largest search engine is accused of squeezing out its competitors. Bloomberg spoke with a legal expert about what's driving this action. (Source: Bloomberg 11/26) 

European parliament votes | Ars Technica: " Although the vote is non-binding, it's a definite setback for the company...."


India Today
International Business|In Symbolic Vote, EU Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google
New York Times
A breakup of Google in Europe will almost certainly not happen, legal .... Google in Europe are major American technology companies like Microsoft ...
European Parliament Votes To Break Up Google - Forbes
European Parliament Approves Google Breakup Resolution - Wall Street Journal
European Parliament Backs Investigation To Split Google Search From Its Other Businesses - TechCrunch


Wall Street Journal
EU Says Google Should Extend 'Right to Be Forgotten' to '.com' Websites
Wall Street Journal
In a new set of guidelines agreed upon in Brussels on Wednesday, the body representing the European Union's 28 national privacy regulators said search engines should apply the bloc's new right to be forgotten to all of their websites—in particular .com ...

New York Times
Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization
New York Times
Hovering above the destruction in Sunset Overdrive, set in a city of murderous creatures....

NDTV
Sony settles with FTC on allegedly misleading PlayStation tweets
Los Angeles Times
Sony's PlayStation Vita may not have been so game-changing after all. Sony settled with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday over charges that it deceived customers in 2011 about the "game changing" advanced technology on the handheld gaming ...

CNET
Get 100 free MP3 albums from Microsoft
CNET
"We'll see your one free album, Google, and raise you a hundred!" The catch? Windows 8 and Windows Phone users only...

PCWorld
Twitter starts peeking at the other apps on your phone
PCWorld
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its ...

San Jose Mercury News
Tablet shopping: iPad, Android or Windows?
San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK -- Time for a tablet? People tend to hold onto tablets longer than smartphones, so take time to weigh your options. A major consideration is what phone you or your gift recipient already has. Although it's possible for Android owners to have Apple's ...

CNET
Amazon Black Friday deals on Kindle and Fire devices start Thursday
CNET
Amazon is offering some impressive deals on its in-house Kindle readers, Fire tablets and Fire phones during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend....

Computerworld
Lenovo Pranks Shoppers for Yoga 3 Ad
PC Magazine
The laptop maker on Tuesday released a Yoga 3 promotional video featuring unsuspecting mallgoers and a broken Apple laptop. The prank featured members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater comedy troupe, who tricked passersby at the Plymouth ...

Computerandvideogames.com
Assassin's Creed Unity Season Pass 'discontinued', free game offered
Computerandvideogames.com
In a drastic move following the marred launch of Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has "discontinued" the game's Season Pass and announced free offerings as compensation to owners of the game. Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallet detailed the move in a ...


TechCrunch
Identity Wars: Why Apple Pay Is About More Than Payments
TechCrunch
Editor's Note: Patrick Salyer is the chief executive officer of Gigya, a customer identity management company. There's been no shortage of attention ...

Microsoft reportedly planning Windows 10 event for January
Microsoft will hold an event this January to show off the new features of Windows 10, according to The Verge. Although January is traditionally ...

Hackers force message on websites via US firm - San Francisco Chronicle: "...The executive says hackers rerouted Internet traffic from its website to a computer server that generated a message to visitors that their site had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. Published reports noted the message appeared on websites for several UK newspapers, CNBC and the National Hockey League. Gigya says no user or company data was compromised in the hack. The Syrian group aligns itself with Syrian President Bashar Assad..."

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Security Risks to Shopping on Black Friday, Cyber Monday (video)

Security Risks to Shopping on Black Friday, Cyber Monday: Video - Bloomberg:
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Shape Security Director of Product Security Michael Coates discusses the security risks of shopping during the holiday season. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 11/25)


CNET
No more lies, T-Mobile US: Download speed caps magically vanished on speed ...
Register
T-Mobile USA has agreed to stop twiddling with subscribers' mobile broadband speeds to hide the fact they were being capped. The telco was caught switching off download and upload bandwidth limits when people visited internet speed test websites.

Game Informer
New Sony Ad Markets PlayStation With 'Sexy' Female Doctor
Huffington Post
Women may represent nearly half of the gaming market, but video game companies are still catering first and foremost to heterosexual men. A new ad reportedly published to Sony's European YouTube channel on Friday has drawn criticism for its depiction of ...


Reuters
Samsung Electronics wins $3 billion Vietnam project license
Reuters
The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 7, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking. Stocks. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. 005930.KS. ₩1,197,000.00. -23,000.00-1.89%.


VentureBeat
BlackBerry offers up to $550 to trade your iPhone for a BlackBerry Passport
VentureBeat
BlackBerry today announced a new trade-in program to woo Apple users over to its latest flagship device. In short, the company is offering iPhone owners up to $550 for their device, as long as they purchase a BlackBerry Passport. The BlackBerry Passport ...


USA TODAY
Nexus 9 tablet is a serious contender to iPad's throne
USA TODAY
Unlike in some other product categories, finding the best tablet is often less about having the fastest hardware than about the experience the software provides. It's the reason why Apple has kept churning out iPads that sometimes lose the spec sheet war, but ...


Yahoo Tech
Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review: A 2-in-1 MacBook Air Killer?
Yahoo Tech
Laptop or tablet? Tablet or laptop? Which should you buy? That's the question a good number of people will likely be asking themselves this holiday season while they sit at their old computers or stand in the electronics aisles of the nearest big-box stores.

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Toyota Mirai, Hydrogen-Powered Car of the Future? (video)

Toyota Mirai: Hydrogen-Powered Car of the Future?: Video - Bloomberg:
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A new car from Toyota could be the blueprint of cars we’ll be driving in years to come. It’s called the Mirai -- which means "future" in Japanese -- and is Toyota's first emissions-free, hydrogen-powered vehicle...but the innovation, isn't without risks in an unproven market. (Source: Bloomberg 11/24)

USA TODAY
Apple launches massive two-week (RED) campaign
USA TODAY
... recent high-profile personal donations and corporate campaigns targeting the recent ebola crisis from companies such as Facebook and Microsoft.
Apple partners with app developers for major Product RED fundraising effort - The Verge


NPR (blog)
Marine Corps Finds It Tough To Shut Down Sexist Facebook Groups
NPR (blog)
A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Keleher soon became intimately familiar with unofficial Marine Facebook pages like JTTOTS, which are forums for ...

BBC News
Google case over online abuse settled
BBC News
A UK businessman who took Google to court over malicious web postings about him appearing in its search results has reached a settlement with the ...
Google settles online abuse court case - The Guardian


Computerworld
How Apple could exploit a forever-free iCloud
Computerworld
While Google and Microsoft are using large amounts of free cloud storage to sell inexpensive consumer notebooks, Apple has stood above the fray.

USA TODAY
Dell, Microsoft, Staples enter Black Friday fray
USA TODAY
Staples will also be offering a variety of deals throughout the week including a Google Chromecast for $25 ($10 off) and Amazon's new Fire TV Stick ...

Washington Business Journal
Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media
Washington Post
About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to ...

TheStreet.com
How Apple Is Absolutely Poised to Win Black Friday 2014
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) –– Apple (AAPL) is poised to win Black Friday and ... and Google(GOOGL) , should help Apple "shine bright this holiday season. ... With larger screens coupled with innovations such as Apple Pay, .... using your Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID or Yahoo login credentials.

Google Glass Was Never Given a Chance to Succeed | Digital Trends: "Viewed in the larger context of the consumer electronics industry, the answer seems pretty clear. Two years is a pretty abysmal lifespan for a product line, and it seems pretty clear that we can toss it on the heap of rare, but mounting Google failures, alongside Buzz, Wave, and that overpriced movie streaming cephalopod, the Nexus Q. But should we hold all such products to the same standards? More to the point, what ultimately was Google attempting to accomplish with Glass in the first place?"

Google Introduces New Security Dashboard and Wizard for Google Apps Users:  Google’s new Devices and Activity dashboard allows Google Apps users to quickly identify and revoke access for any device that has been used to access an account and its data.

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Webcam Hackers and Cyber Security (video)

Cyber security experts in the UK have been warning the public of a Russian hosted website containing thousands of live webcam feeds. Bloomberg spoke to internet security expert, David Emm from Kaspersky Lab, and asked what people can do to protect themselves. (Source: Bloomberg 11/21)

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New York Times
Washington Post Releases Free App for Kindle, in First Collaboration WithAmazon
New York Times
The phrase, borrowed from its new owner, the billionaire Amazon founder ... with Mr. Bezos, said Shailesh Prakash, The Post's head of technology.
Washington Post launches twice-daily tablet editions on Amazon Fire app - Washington Post


CNET
Google tests subscription service for ad-free websites
CNET
The test for Google's Contributor program enables you to see a thank-you ... Facebook is next at 8 percent, followed by Microsoft at 2.9 percent and ...

Reuters: Google Break-up?
European Parliament may propose Google break-up in draft resolution

New York Post
Amazon plans a streaming-video alternative
New York Post
Amazon's vice president of Kindle, Peter Larsen, displays the Amazon Fire ... Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is primed and ready for a fresh assault on the ...
Amazon Moves Closer To A Free, Ad-Supported Video Service - TechCrunch
Amazon reportedly launching free, ad-supported video service - Engadget


Wall Street Journal
Google Looks to Get Back Into China
Wall Street Journal
In the U.S., just two app stores dominate— Apple 's App Store for iPhones ... News of Google's effort was earlier reported by technology website The ...

USA TODAY
Amazon unveils its Black Friday plans
USA TODAY
As more and more companies continue to move their Black Friday sales earlier into Thanksgiving Thursday, Amazon has taken a different approach.

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