SAN FRANCISCO: Popular online bulletin board Pinterest will pay former chief operating officer Francoise Brougher $20 million in a deal reached to settle a gender discrimination suit, a regulatory filing…
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Monday began adding labels that reveal what user data is gathered by games, chat or other software offered in the App Store for its popular mobile…
SAN FRANCISCO: The US Federal Trade Commission on Monday sent orders to Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other internet giants demanding troves of information about their data collection, ad practices,…
SAN FRANCISCO: Walt Disney chief executive Bob Chapek told investors on Thursday that the company's year-old streaming TV service Disney+ had passed 86.8 million subscribers, beating its "wildest expectations." The…
SAN FRANCISCO: Uber is selling its costly self-driving unit, the Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), to autonomous vehicle start-up Aurora, and also investing 400 million U.S. dollars into it, the companies…
SAN FRANCISCO: More than 1,000 Google employees on Friday demanded that the tech giant explain why it had dismissed a Black artificial intelligence ethics researcher. Timnit Gebru tweeted early in…
LOS ANGELES: The Virgin Hyperloop made its first journey carrying passengers Sunday, in a test the company claimed represented a major step forward for the "groundbreaking" technology capable of transporting…
SAN FRANCISCO: US video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) on Thursday beat earnings expectations despite falling revenue, but outlook for the current quarter caused shares to sink. Revenue of $1.15…
SAN FRANCISCO: A jury in Texas on Friday decided that Apple should pay $503 million for infringing virtual private network technology patented by software security firm VirnetX. The legal battle…
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Tuesday said its profit in the recently ended quarter continued to soar as the pandemic boosted a trend toward business being taken care of in the…
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter service appeared to be restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated, in light of the coronavirus pandemic which the social media giant said has "highlighted…
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple said Tuesday its newest iPhones would be produced using recycled rare earth materials, as part of a stepped up environmental initiative which also has geopolitical implications. Announced…
SAN FRANCISCO: All passenger vehicles sold in California will be zero-emission by 2035 under a new rule aimed at fighting climate change and smog-fouled air. California wields considerable clout in…
SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube on Thursday began adding information panels to videos about voting by mail to reduce the spread of misinformation leading up to the US presidential election in November.…
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla chief Elon Musk has promised "insane" battery news at a streamed event after the company's annual shareholders' meeting on Tuesday. Speculation includes that Tesla will announce it…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Thursday said it is updating workplace policy to prevent clashes over politics, racial justice or the pandemic on its internal employee message board. Chief executive Mark…
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Tuesday announced Apple One, a plan to include all of Apple's subscription services, during its September 2000 event. "With a single subscription, customers in over 100…
LOS ANGELES: A US court of appeals on Monday gave the green light for the Trump administration to expel hundreds of thousands of nationals from four countries who had been…
LOS ANGELES: California is bracing for record-breaking temperatures and dangerous fire weather conditions this Labor Day weekend, with the National Weather Service urging people to limit outdoor activity and to…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said Friday it will ban new political advertising the week before the US election, one of its most sweeping moves yet against disinformation as CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
SAN FRANCISCO: Zoom shares soared on Monday after the video-meeting service reported that quarterly revenue rocketed as its ranks of users more than quadrupled. The Silicon Valley-based company that has…
SAN FRANCISCO: Major American media organizations have written to Apple pushing for the iPhone maker to charge less to feature on its App Store, a week after the company behind…
SAN FRANCISCO: Popular Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for many users around the world on Thursday, with the US technology giant telling affected people they were "aware…
