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Lyft gears up for international expansion on anniversary
Lyft, the ridesharing service known for its fleet of pink mustache-festooned cars, is eyeing international expansion supported by its biggest funding round yet.
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Google launching new fund for later-stage tech investments
Google is launching a new fund through which it will make later-stage investments in technology companies, a Google executive said Wednesday.
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French police end missing persons searches, suggest using Facebook instead
The latest victim of disruption by Internet technologies is a veteran of World War I: the missing persons search.
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Study ranks US least riskiest place to open data center
Last year the U.S. was the least riskiest place in the world to open a data center, according to a study released this week.
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Growing mobile malware threat swirls (mostly) around Android
Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday.
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BullGuard ID theft protection trawls 'dark web' for stolen data
Antivirus firm BullGuard has reinforced its 2013 Premium Protection suite with a new ID theft service that monitors a user?s personal data in case any of it turns up on the ?dark web.?
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Chinese rival bolsters search engine against Baidu with Alibaba partnership
China's Baidu has long dominated the country's search market. But a local rival to the company is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
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Teens growing cool on Facebook but warming to Twitter, Pew study finds
Some teens are growing tired of the excessive sharing and "drama" on Facebook and more are turning to sites like Twitter and Instagram to express themselves, according to a new study.
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Yahoo returns to list of most valuable brands
Yahoo again ranks as one of the world's 100 most valuable brands.
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UK drops behind France for credit and debit card fraud for first time
Debit and credit card fraud losses rose 14 percent in the UK last year but that wasn?t enough to stop France deposing it as the top country for plastic crime, analytics firm FICO has reported.
