FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A South Florida doctor wanted to bury a bad online rating of his services.A Boca Raton, Fla., jeweler needed positive reviews about his business to rank higher on Internet searches.And a Miami Beach restaurant looked to downplay negative comments about the lack of decor ...
LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood and other content owners, whose relationship with Google is fitful at best, gave the Silicon Valley search company rare praise Friday for its move to penalize websites that have been flagged by copyright holders for potentially hosting pirated entertainment.In a blog ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is paying a $22.5 million fine to settle the latest regulatory case questioning the Internet search leader's respect for people's privacy and the integrity of its internal controls.The penalty announced Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission matches the figure reported ...
WASHINGTON -- NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station.This is the third phase of NASA's efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. The companies will share ...
A technical glitch on the stock market caused sharp swings in dozens of stocks early Wednesday, causing confusion and disarray in the first hour of trading.It was the latest breakdown in the increasingly complicated electronic systems that run stock trading, which have been showing signs of ...
NEW YORK -- The once-sexy iPhone is starting to look small and chubby.That's become a problem for Apple, which revealed last week that iPhone sales have slowed. Part of the problem is that the competition has found a formula that works: thinner phones with bigger screens.For a dose of ...
TORONTO -- At a bustling H&M clothing store in Toronto's chic downtown area, Canadian shoppers rack up purchases on their debit and credit cards, unaware that they're getting a level of protection that U.S. consumers lack.Canadian consumers are issued credit and debit cards that ...
ST. LOUIS -- Anders Minkler & Diehl was prepared for the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on the national health care overhaul.With the ink barely dry on the ruling, the St. Louis accounting firm noted the outcome on its Gray Matter blog and linked the post to a social media site ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Netflix is more popular among couch potatoes than investors a year after its polarizing decision to raise U.S. prices for video subscription services.The unexpected twist that Netflix unveiled a year ago Thursday triggered mass customer cancellations and a sell-off in its ...
LONDON -- Some 450,000 Yahoo users' email addresses and passwords have been leaked because of a security breach, the company confirmed Thursday, adding that just a small fraction of the stolen passwords were valid.The company said in a statement that an "old file" from the Yahoo Contributor ...
