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Google set off furious speculation this month when it said it would team up with Citigroup and a small California credit union to offer checking accounts. Will Google take over finance the way it dominates internet search?…

Some new statistics from the nation’s leading tech firms on arbitration serve as evidence for an argument that critics of the practice have long contended: that forced arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts build…

Bloomberg recently announced their annual “Brain” Indexes. The indexes are an annual reckoning of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) jobs and degree holders. The “Brain Concentration Index” approximates the number…

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Facebook and Twitter announced Monday that hundreds of users' personal data has been improperly accessed by a third-party through certain apps. Twitter announced that personal data potentially accessed by a third-party…

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Facebook and Twitter announced Monday that hundreds of users' personal data has been breached by a third-party through certain apps. Twitter announced that personal data potentially accessed by a third-party developer…

When news broke recently that Google and Catholic health care provider Ascension were working together on data processing, it caused a stir. A whistleblower’s allegation of minor deviations from federal privacy regulations helped make…

Google, as Google does, is once again trying to be all things to all people. Its latest move is to combine the follow feature of social networks like Facebook and Instagram, reviews of businesses and restaurants like you’d see on Yelp,…

The Wall Street Journal recently reported a shocking revelation: Senior Google employees exert “editorial control over what (its search engine) shows users.” Another journalist and member of the managing board of the Stigler Center at…

San Francisco Google is making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people.The company said that as of January, advertisers will only be able to target U.S. political ads…

Google is sharply restricting how political candidates can use its advertising tools in a set of policy changes it announced on Wednesday that may transform how elections unfold in the digital arena going forward. In the most…