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Dutch Court Lets ISPs Flee Pirate Bay Battle

The Pirate Bay is once again wide open, thanks a ruling by an appeals court in the Netherlands that decreed Internet providers no longer have to block IP addresses associated with the site. The Hague Appeals Court reasoned that the required blocking was impossible to implement or enforce because use...

Neiman Marcus Alerts Customers to Hack Attack

Neiman Marcus has announced that some 1.1-million customer credit and debit cards may have been exposed in a hack attack. The retailer was first alerted to the intrusion at the beginning of the year by a security researcher. It appears that "sophisticated, self-concealing malware" able to obtain pay...

Intel Deal Could Help Verizon Expand Its TV Horizons

Verizon will be acquiring the assets of Intel Media, the developer of the OnCue Cloud TV platform, the companies announced Monday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Verizon noted it hopes to keep in house most of the unit's 350-strong workforce and management team. These assets will allo...

Nest CEO Promises to Preserve Privacy

Nest CEO Tony Fadell took on one of the many lingering questions about Google's $3.2 billion acquisition of the company: What will become of its privacy policy? Any changes to Nest's privacy policy will be opt-in, and the company will be "transparent" about those changes to its users, Fadell promise...

Microsoft Hooks Up With GoDaddy

Microsoft and GoDaddy on Tuesday announced they were partnering to market Microsoft's Office 365 to GoDaddy's 12 million small business users. GoDaddy's small business users can attach Office 365 to a domain name and get access to cloud storage and Microsoft's productivity suite. 24/7 live customer ...

Time Warner Cable Gives Charter Cold Shoulder

Charter Communications is pursuing the acquisition of Time Warner Cable, but it seems unable to offer a price the cable giant can accept. Now, with its third offer made and spurned, the dialogue between the two companies has gone public and become somewhat nasty in tone. Charter on Monday offered to...

Facebook May Branch Into Deeper Discussions

Facebook on Monday announced its acquisition of Branch, which it plans to use in a new unit or product called "Facebook Conversations." Branch's model mimics an Internet forum in that the users create "branches" to discuss topics. Links are shared and friends are invited to participate. Participants...

IT Spending Will Inch Ahead in 2014, Gartner Says

Global IT spending will reach $3.8 trillion this year, Gartner predicted this week, representing a 3.1 percent increase over spending in 2013, which clocked in at $3.7 trillion. The rate of growth between 2012 and 2013, by contrast, was a negligible 0.4 percent. Among the winning categories for 2014...

Apple’s YOY Sales Sag

Apple's month-to-month smartphone sales appear healthy, according to data covering September to November 2013, released Tuesday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. However, the bigger picture is less encouraging. Year-over-year figures indicate Apple is at best treading water, with its share having declin...

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Attention, Shoppers: You’re Being Watched

In an effort to catch up with their data-swamped online counterparts, brick-and-mortar retailers are turning to a new tool to help them better monitor shoppers and maximize sales: shoppers' cell phones. Approaches include tracking shoppers as they move about the store using their phones' connection ...

The Devil Made Ex-Microsoft Exec Do Insider Trading

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington and the Securities and Exchange Commission have lodged criminal and civil enforcement actions against a former senior portfolio manager at Microsoft and his friend, alleging insider trading. They also accuse the two of planning to u...

40 Million Target Customers Fall Prey to Hackers

Target has disclosed that 40 million customer accounts might have been accessed by hackers between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. Customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the three-digit security codes on the backs of cards were compromised when they were swiped through machine...

Bitcoin Buckles Under China’s Assault

China has delivered Bitcoin the second half of a one-two punch that could be the beginning of the end for the virtual currency. BTC China, China's largest Bitcoin exchange, on Wednesday said it could no longer accept deposits of renminbi -- the local currency -- to purchase bitcoin. BTC China's anno...

Twitter Nearby Could Trigger Major Marketing Opportunities

Twitter reportedly is testing Nearby, a new timeline feature for its mobile app that displays tweets from people who are geographically close. Both the users viewing the tweets and those tweeting must have their location tagging option enabled for the feature to work. The Nearby service will display...

AmazonFresh Grocery Trucks Hit Streets of San Francisco

Amazon on Wednesday announced the expansion of its experimental grocery delivery service to San Francisco. It launched AmazonFresh in 2007 as a test in one Seattle neighborhood, gradually expanding in that area. This summer, it made its debut in Los Angeles. With the addition of San Francisco, it ap...

Snapchat Wants to Make Ousted Cofounder Shut Up

Attorneys for Snapchat executives Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy have applied to the California court for a restraining order and order to show cause against cofounder Reggie Brown, who is currently in litigation with the company over his ouster. The restraining order would keep Brown from publicizi...

Cyber Shoppers Beware! Those Juicy Deals May Be Hot Air

This Cyber Monday, retailers of every stripe ran countless ads proclaiming the big shopping day's special deals -- including this one: A Nikon D3200 Two Lens Zoom Kit, originally priced at $799.95, marked down to $499.95. Sounds good, right? We thought so too, but try as we might, we couldn't secure...

Supreme Court Passes on E-Commerce Tax Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced it would not hear an appeal by Amazon and Overstock.com challenging a New York law that requires e-commerce companies to collect taxes from shoppers in the state even if the retailers don't have facilities there. The decision is the latest twist in an incre...

Online Record-Busting Black Friday Spurs High Hopes for Cyber Monday

More than 131 million shoppers -- or 54.8 percent of the shopping population -- are planning to hit the online deals this Cyber Monday. That is one finding of a National Retail Federation survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics over the weekend. For comparison, the corresponding figure ...

Black Friday Spread Could Plague Retailers

Retailers have been trying for years to expand Black Friday shopping with extended hours and prolonged sales, and this year that trend appears to be reaching new heights, with some stores even planning to be open early on Thanksgiving Day. That's not a universal rule, however. Glenview, Ill.-based A...

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