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| Apr. 11 |
 U.S. Senate |
Facebook's Zuckerberg says his data was harvested Facebook's chief executive has revealed that his data was among that harvested in a privacy scandal
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| Jan.10 |
Nevada |
CES 2018: Power cut at Vegas tech show blamed on rain
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| Jan.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Meltdown and Spectre: All Mac devices affected
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| Nov.28 |
Global |
Bitcoin crosses $10,000 milestone
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| Nov.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Uber concealed huge data breach
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| Oct.12 |
South Korea |
Samsung Electronics CEO resigns |
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| Sep.6 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook uncovers Russia-funded misinformation |
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| Aug.7 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google fires diversity memo author |
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| Jul.1 |
Washington |
Trump defends his use of social media in a series of tweets |
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| Apr.29 |
Turkey |
Turkish authorities block Wikipedia without giving reason |
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| Mar.26 |
Arizona |
Uber suspends self-driving cars after Arizona crash |
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| Dec.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Uber halts California self-driving cars test |
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| Dec.14 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
'One billion' affected by Yahoo hack |
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| Nov.11 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error' |
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| Nov.7 |
South Korea |
Samsung raided in political corruption probe |
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| Sep.23 |
Los Angeles |
Snapchat launches sunglasses with camera |
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| Sep.22 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Attack on Yahoo hit 500 million users
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| Aug.30 |
European Union |
Apple should pay up to €13bn in back taxes
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| Aug.5 |
Iran |
Pokemon Go banned by Iranian authorities over 'security' |
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| May.26 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google defeats Oracle in Java code copyright case |
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| May.25 |
Norway |
Norway consumer body stages live app terms reading |
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| May.3 |
China |
Apple loses trademark fight over iPhone name in China |
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| May.2 |
Beijing |
China investigates search engine Baidu after student's death
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| Apr.1 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google April Fool Gmail button sparks backlash |
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| Mar.15 |
U.S. Senate |
Google calls on US to shake-up self-driving car laws |
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| Mar.10 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple hits back at 'corrosive' claim by US government |
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| Feb.29 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google self-driving car hits a bus |
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New York |
Apple backed by judge in new iPhone access fight |
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| Feb.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple boss Tim Cook hits back at FBI investigation |
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| Feb.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Twitter suspends 125,000 'terrorism' accounts |
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| Feb.1 |
San Francisco Bay |
Alphabet - owner of Google - takes top spot from Apple |
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| Jan.29 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook and Instagram ban private gun adverts |
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| Jan.22 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google 'paid Apple $1bn in 2014 to keep search on iPhone' |
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| Dec.22 |
North Korea |
North Korea partially back online |
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 North Korea |
Internet crashes in North Korea North Korea has been suffering severe internet outages, with one analyst saying the country's access to the web was entirely cut
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| Dec.12 |
London |
UK flights hit by computer failure
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| Jul.17 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft set to axe 18,000 jobs |
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| Jun.11 |
European Union |
Uber sparks taxi strikes in Europe |
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| Mar.20 |
 Turkey |
Twitter 'blocked' in Turkey Twitter users in Turkey report that the social media site has been blocked in the country. PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to 'wipe out Twitter'
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| Feb.4 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft names Nadella as new boss 
Indian-born Satya Nadella is currently Microsoft's head of Cloud and Enterprise. He takes over from Steve Ballmer who announced plans to step...
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| Nov.17 |
Microsoft |
Search engines to block abuse images |
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| Nov.7 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Twitter shares jump on market debut
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| Sep.2 |
London |
Vodafone sells stake to Verizon |
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| Jun.11 |
Microsoft |
Tech firms urge security transparency Google, Facebook and Microsoft have asked the government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user ...
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| Feb.5 |
Texas |
Dell to be bought back by founder |
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| Jan.12 |
New York |
Web activist Aaron Swartz dies |
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| Dec.28 |
Beijing |
China tightens rules on internet |
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| Dec.5 |
 Guatemala |
John McAfee arrested in Guatemala 
John McAfee, the founder of anti-virus software maker McAfee, has been arrested in Guatemala, accused of entering the country illegally
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| Nov.29 |
Syria |
Internet shuts down in Syria |
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| Oct.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Error sees Google stock suspended |
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| Sep.23 |
 China |
Foxconn shuts plant after brawl Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for Apple, has shut a plant in northern China, after a fight broke out among workers injuring...
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| Sep.12 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple unveils 4G-enabled iPhone 5
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| Aug.24 |
South Korea |
Samsung to fight court ruling for Apple
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San Francisco Bay Area |
Samsung told to pay Apple $1bn A US jury has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05bn in damages in an intellectual property lawsuit
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| Jul.16 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo names Google exec as new boss
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| Jul.1 |
China |
Apple 'settles China iPad case' |
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| May.22 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Concerns grow over Facebook deal |
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| May.18 |
New York |
Facebook in stock debut rollercoaster |
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New York |
Facebook share trading debut | Founder Mark Zuckerberg opened the day's trading on the Nasdaq. He appeared via video link from a celebration at the social network's headquarters. Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $3... | |
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| May.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook shares valued at $100bn |
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| May.16 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook to sell 25% more shares |
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| May.13 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo CEO Thompson quits his post
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| Apr.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo to cut 14% of its workforce |
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| Mar.15 |
Japan |
Long lines as iPad goes on sale in Japan |
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| Mar.1 |
European Union |
Google change 'breaches EU law' |
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| Feb.1 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook confirms plans to go public
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| Jan.23 |
Canada |
Blackberry-maker CEOs step down
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| Jan.22 |
New Zealand |
Megaupload boss seeks bail in NZ |
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| Jan.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Sites go dark in US law protest
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| Jan.17 |
 Global |
Sites protest US anti-piracy move Wikipedia has taken its English-language site offline as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US
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| Jan.13 |
Beijing |
Scuffles halt China iPhone sales |
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| Oct.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple full-year profits rise 85% |
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| Oct.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies Former chief executive and co-founder of US technology giant Apple Steve Jobs has died, the company says. He was 56
| Jobs announced he was suffering from pancreatic cancer in 2004. Jobs introduced the colourful iMac computer, the iPod and the iPhone to the world. He was indistinguishable from his company, which he co-founded in the 1970s
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| Sep.28 |
Seattle |
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet |
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| Aug.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Steve Jobs quits as Apple chief
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| May.10 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft buys phone firm Skype |
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| Apr.26 |
Japan |
Sony: Hacker stole PlayStation users' info |
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| Feb.6 |
Cairo |
Missing Google exec to be released |
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| Jan.20 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Schmidt to step down as Google CEO
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| Jul.29 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google search working again in China |
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| Mar.22 |
China |
Google stops censoring search in China Google has stopped censoring its search results in China, ignoring warnings by the country's authorities
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| Jan.16 |
Berlin |
Germany issues Explorer warning |
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| Jan.12 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google reports China-based attack| Google says pullout possible. The company and at least 20 others were victims of a highly sophisticated and targeted attack in mid-December. Google has decided it is no longer willing to consider censorship of its sit... | |
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| Nov.20 |
Geneva |
Large Hadron Collider restarts |
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| Jul.29 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal |
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| Jul.23 |
South Africa |
Cable - big promises for African Internet |
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| May.13 |
European Union |
EC fines computer chipmaker Intel $1.4B |
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| Apr.17 |
 Sweden |
Court jails Pirate Bay founders A court has jailed four men behind TPB, the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case
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| Mar.25 |
China |
YouTube blocked in China |
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| Feb.13 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft bounty for worm creator |
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| Jan.6 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple to end music restrictions |
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| Nov.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Jerry Yang to quit as Yahoo boss |
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| Oct.28 |
Los Angeles |
Microsoft delivers pre-beta Windows 7 |
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| Sep.1 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google unveils free browser Chrome |
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| May.3 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo |
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| Feb.27 |
European Union |
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn |
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| Feb.1 |
 United Arab Emirates |
Third undersea Internet cable cut A cable was cut off the emirate of Duba, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
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Microsoft |
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo
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| Sep.28 |
Myanmar |
Internet cut as violence continues |
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| Jan.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple's 'magical' iPhone unveiled Users will be able to download music and videos with the phone, demonstrated by CEO Steve Jobs at the Macworld Expo
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| Oct.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn |
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| Feb.1 |
U.S. Congress |
Internet firms 'bowed to Beijing' |
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| Nov.16 |
Tunisia |
Deal averts Internet showdown
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| Jun.27 |
U.S. Supreme Court |
File-sharing suffers major defeat
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| Nov.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Mozilla Firefox browser launched |
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| Aug.21 |
USA |
SoBig.F breaks virus speed records
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| Apr.28 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple launches online music service
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| Jan.29 |
New York |
AOL TW Posts Loss of Nearly $100 Billion
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| Nov.2 |
Washington |
Microsoft reaches anti-trust deal
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| Oct.25 |
Microsoft |
Windows XP hits the streets |
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| Oct.23 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
iPod: New digital music player
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| Nov.15 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
World News Atlas started Features World headlines linked to news articles
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| May.4 |
USA |
'I love you' virus disrupts computers Virus contained in e-mail messages is thought to be the fastest-moving and most widespread virus ever seen
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| Apr.4 |
Washington |
Microsoft loses antitrust suit Microsoft is confident that it will eventually overturn the decision by a judge that it violated anti-monopoly laws
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| Mar.10 |
USA |
Nasdaq reached 5048 Nasdaq's all-time high. Beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom
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| Feb.7 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo, eBay crippled by hackers |
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| Jan.24 |
USA |
AOL planned to purchase Time Warner
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| Jan.1 |
USA |
Y2K bug fails to bite| A flaw in computer program that caused processing to operate incorrectly on and after January 1, 2000. The Year 2000 problem caused concern that critical industries and government functions would cease operating at midnight, January 1.... | |
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| Apr. 9, 1998 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin| A multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. Ad technologies, search, cloud computing, and software | |
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| Apr. 1, 1976 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Jobs and Wozniak created Apple Computer, Inc. Map of Cupertino California USA Apple Inc. now is a multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics, PCs, computer software, and is distributor of media
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