Google’s encryption initiative, initially approved last year, was accelerated in June as the tech giant struggled to guard its reputation as a reliable steward of user information amid controversy about the NSA’s PRISM program, first reported in The Washington Post and the Guardian that month. PRISM obtains data from American technology companies, including Google, under...Read More

Until last week, Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, appeared to be well on their way to becoming Generation X’s Bill and Melinda Gates. The billionaire tech titan and his biologist were a Silicon Valley power couple who, like the Gateses, looked set to make their mark in philanthropy, using their enormous wealth to...Read More

Instead, she was nervous about color. The current palette for the frames of Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear, is limited: cotton (white), tangerine (orange), sky (blue) and two shades of gray. Although wearing a pop of turquoise or coral on your face might fly in Silicon Valley, Ms. Olsson worried they would clash on the runway....Read More

Just two days after Microsoft relaunched its YouTube app for Windows Phone smartphones and thanked Google for its “support”, Google has once again blocked the app from working. The app had originally been removed from the Windows Phone store in May after Google complained to Microsoft about its ability to download videos to the device,...Read More