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Security researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way thousands of popular mobile applications store data online, leaving users' personal information, including passwords, addresses, door codes and location data, vulnerable to hackers. 

Suspected Chinese hackers who infiltrated the US government's human resources records have sensitive information on all federal employees, an American union said June 11.

The European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon's e-book business on June 11, opening yet another front in mounting EU scrutiny of America's global tech giants. 

The investigation adds to the pressure on the online retailer in Europe, where it is already being investigated for the low tax rates it pays in Luxembourg. 

Overseas markets bring in more advertising revenue than the United States for Facebook Inc, amounting to 51 percent of global ad sales in the first quarter, with growth in Asia the fastest in the world at 57 percent, company executives told Reuters.

The US Army's official website was hacked June 8 with messages denouncing Washington's training of rebel fighters inside Syria, but no data was stolen, officials said.

Apple announced a major new foray into streaming music on June 8 as it showed off a host of new software features for its iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.

It’s not enough that some “netizens” spend countless hours on Facebook, now the world’s pre-eminent social media site has unveiled a “lite” version of itself, debuting a new app for Android that only takes up 1 MB of storage space.
The normal Facebook app takes up about 25 MB of storage space.

Social media giant Facebook may have a “no nipple” policy, but the site has no protection as far as sick videos shoing puppies being blowtorched to death are concerned. The vile video, shared around 70,000 times, was reported to the site by accountant Nick Parkes, aged 46.

It was the selfie that launched a … 1,000 topless Icelandic women to go topless for … feminism! Well, it may not be 1,000 but it sounds poetic, in a Homeric way.

After the Turkish military allowed thousands of annual new recruits to use mobile phones in their barracks, the demand for out-of-date, inexpensive phones, dubbed ?dumb phones,? has boomed in the country. 

The military?s announcement on April 13 to remove the mobile phone ban created a surge in demand for these non-smart phones.