MANILA, Philippines—Manila authorities are putting up pictures of speeding vehicles on an official website in an usual attempt to stop drivers breaking the law on Metro Manila’s sometimes hairy roads. The snapshots, along with a listing of the speed of the vehicles and the time and date the photographs were taken, are designed to shame [...]
WASHINGTON—Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, has dismissed as “utterly without merit” a lawsuit filed against the website claiming compensation for unpaid bloggers. Huffington, who sold The Huffington Post to AOL two months ago for $315 million, said the vast majority of contributors to her news and opinion site are happy to do so [...]
SAN FRANCISCO–Google shares fell in after-hours trading on Thursday as the Internet giant’s earnings came in slightly below Wall Street expectations, dragged down by rising operating expenses. The Mountain View, California-based Google reported a first-quarter net profit of $2.3 billion, up from $1.96 billion a year ago. Net revenue rose 29 percent to $6.54 billion [...]
WASHINGTON—US authorities on Wednesday announced the disabling of a vast network of virus-infected computers used by cyber criminals to steal millions of dollars. The “Coreflood” botnet is believed to have operated for nearly a decade and to have infected more than two million computers around the world, the Justice Department and FBI said in a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Greenpeace activists rallied outside Facebook headquarters on Wednesday, calling on the social network to “unfriend” coal energy for powering data centers and other operations. The international environmental group set up a large computer screen to display comments streaming in from around the world in response to a Facebook post urging the firm to join [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Google and Bing gained ground in the US Internet search market in March at the expense of Ask, AOL, and Yahoo!, according to figures released Wednesday by industry tracker comScore. Google continued to be the prime tool used to seek online information, handling 65.7 percent of “explicit” queries as compared to 65.4 percent the [...]
GREENSBURG, Kansas – The greenest car you’ve likely never heard of will soon be hitting Honda showrooms across the United States as the Japanese automaker expands sales of its compressed natural gas powered Civic. Honda has been quietly winning green car awards for more than a decade as it cautiously introduced the Civic GX first [...]
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia’s top news portal Malaysiakini remained crippled Wednesday, more than 24 hours after cyber attackers struck ahead of hotly contested state elections on Borneo island. Steven Gan, its co-founder and chief editor, said the site would continue to report on Saturday’s vote in Sarawak state despite the shutdown, which came days after whistleblowing website [...]
SAN FRANCISCO–Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced that a freshly-released “Tiger Woods PGA TOUR” videogame teed-off with the strongest opening sales in the franchise’s 14-year history. The California-based videogame maker estimated that 225,000 copies of “Tiger Wood PGA TOUR 12: The Masters” were sold in the week after its March 29 release in North America. Those [...]
WASHINGTON–Thirty years after the first space flight of the US shuttle program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Tuesday the three retiring orbiters will take up residence as museum pieces in Florida, Virginia and California. NASA’s declaration sparked anger in Texas, the home of mission control in Houston, and one senator from the state [...]
WASHINGTON—The Huffington Post was sued on Tuesday by a freelance journalist claiming unpaid bloggers should be compensated for the value they created for the website, which AOL bought for $315 million. Jonathan Tasini, the lead plaintiff in the suit filed with a US District Court in New York, is demanding at least $105 million in [...]
NEW YORK—Pop star Justin Bieber, game sensation Angry Birds and The New York Times were among the nominees on Tuesday for the 15th annual Webby Awards. YouTube discovery Bieber was nominated in the comedy category for “Justin Bieber Takes Over Funny Or Die” while Angry Birds from Finland’s Rovio earned a nod in the best [...]
WASHINGTON—US senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced an online privacy bill Tuesday that seeks to strike a balance between protecting the personal information of Web users and the needs of businesses to conduct electronic commerce. The former Democratic and Republican presidential candidates said the bipartisan legislation would require companies gathering data to allow a [...]
