NEW YORK -- In response to privacy concerns, Google says it has tweaked Buzz, the social hub it added to its e-mail service this week.
Motorola Inc. will split in two in the first quarter of 2011, combining the mobile-phone and set-top box divisions into one publicly traded company and the enterprise mobility and networks units into a second business.
LONDON -- Facebook has deleted the pages of 30 U.K. prisoners at the request of the British government, the justice minister announced Thursday, after several incidents in which inmates reportedly used the Internet to plot with criminals and intimidate victims.
Motorola has come up with a new plan to split itself apart that calls for the Schaumburg-based cellphone giant to auction off its division that makes cable-TV set-top boxes, and spin off its cell-phone and wireless equipment units, according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday.
Google fires the latest volley in the escalating social media war with Buzz, a direct attack on Facebook.
Brad Spirrison: As new seed investment funds are established in Silicon Valley and New York City, Northbrook-based venture capital firms Origin Ventures and Leo Capital Holdings are taking a more regional approach to finding deals. The two firms recently co-led a $2 million investment in Middleton, Wis.-based Sway Inc.
Beatrice Elizalde had given up her honor-student status four years ago to offer emotional support to her mother, who had just become a caregiver to Elizalde's maternal grandmother. Elizalde wanted to make enough money to return to college to get her bachelor's degree when she spotted an ad with the enticing question, "Do you want to get paid to learn?" She didn't realize she was walking into a life-changing experience at i.c. stars, a Chicago nonprofit dedicated to teaching promising young people to become community leaders and technologically skilled professionals.
Facebook is redesigning its site yet again, this time to better emphasize applications, games and search. Links and items have moved around the home page as Facebook tries to streamline navigation and make games and apps stand out more.
