Bots dominate Twitter chatter — study

WASHINGTON -- Automated accounts or “bots” play a big role in disseminating information on Twitter, accounting for two-thirds of tweets linking to popular websites,...

Spies on your phone? Don’t get shocked

By Stephen L. Carter Bloomberg View THE PRESS has been in a lather of late over reports that the US Department of Homeland Security had discovered...

Traditional PCs still thrive in PHL while smartphone shipments decline — IDC report

Device usage habits of Filipinos are rapidly changing, and it is reshaping the connected device trends in the country, according to a report by...

Facebook’s data crackdown has two winners: Facebook and Google

Facebook Inc. is putting tighter controls on data flowing through its giant social network in response to the worst privacy crisis in its history....

Facebook adding unsend message tool after Zuckerberg caught doing it

Facebook Inc. is planning to introduce a feature letting users of its Messenger app retract messages after a report that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Chief...

Facebook says data on most of its 2 billion users is vulnerable

Facebook Inc. said data on most of its 2 billion users could have been accessed improperly, giving fresh evidence of the ways the social-media...

Zuckerberg: No plan to extend all of EU privacy law globally

SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook, Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that he agreed “in spirit” with a strict new European Union law...

Apple said to start making chips for Mac in two years, ditching Intel

APPLE, INC. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to...

Poll: CEOs see technology disrupting businesses, but few willing to invest

MOST chief executives globally are putting a premium on investing in core business technologies to facilitate their digital transformation despite the emergence of new...

Apple is said to work on touchless control, curved iPhone screen

Apple Inc. is working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for future iPhones, projects that may help the company differentiate its most-important product...

Zuckerberg vows to alert all whose data may have been exposed

Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, breaking a media silence on the latest consumer imbroglio to engulf the social media company, vowed to inform each of...

AMD confirms chip security flaw, says report exaggerated danger

ADVANCED Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Intel Corp.’s main rival in computer microprocessors, said a report earlier this month alleging that its chips have widespread,...