By JOANN S. LUBLIN, AMIR EFRATI and SPENCER E. ANTE Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology business. Timeline: A Changing Internet [...]

Follow me, not the government. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won’t go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant “no.” It’s not a purposeful no. It’s just a [...]

The hacking group that calls itself the S.E.A. struck again on Friday, this time breaking into the Twitter accounts and blog headlines of The Financial Times. The attack was part of a crusade that has targeted dozens of media outlets as varied as The Associated Press and The Onion, the [...]

Tweet Tweet The Pentagon has approved Apple’s iPhone for use on its secure Department of Defense website, clearing employees to switch to the device if they choose. Employees had previously been required to use BlackBerry devices which been cleared for Pentagon use several years ago. The DoD move comes six [...]

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