WASHINGTON — Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said Tuesday. The social-networking giant ...

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SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. has applied for U.S. and South Korean trademarks for a watch that connects to the Internet in the latest sign that consumer technology companies see wearable devices as the future of their business. ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook has found redemption in the form of a soaring stock price. On Wednesday, the share price of the world’s most populous social network —and human data repository— briefly crept past $38 for the first time since ...

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The Delaware State Lottery announced that it has amended its rules to prohibit so-called “Google Glasses” and similar webcam-equipped, wearable wireless devices from the Casino at Delaware Park and other state gaming locations.

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NEW YORK — Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview version of an update to Windows 8, aiming to address some of the gripes people have with the company’s flagship operating system. At a conference in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google has settled a shareholder lawsuit to clear the way for a long-delayed split of the Internet search leader’s stock. The agreement announced Monday resolves allegations that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin engineered the stock ...

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Attorneys need to tap into their inner-techie, with their own website, social media pages, blogs and videos, according to a seminar at the MSBA’s Annual Meeting.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while gaining technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system. The ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green “felt” of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone’s launch in ...

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