WhatsApp’s mobile messaging service used by hundreds of millions of customers worldwide breached privacy laws in at least two countries, a joint Canadian-Dutch probe concluded Monday. The California-based mobile app developer violated “certain internationally [...]

Twitter said Monday that worldwide requests from governments about its users rose nearly 20 per cent in second half of 2012 as it sought to raise awareness about “invasive” actions. The popular messaging platform [...]

Congress on Monday finally approved more than $50 billion in emergency disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy, 13 weeks after the superstorm ravaged much of the coastal US northeast and left thousands homeless. [...]

US pending home sales dipped in December as inventory remained tight, but the upward trend in the housing market continued, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. The NAR’s pending home sales index, an [...]

The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama would not block a Republican plan to extend government borrowing authority by three months but would prefer a longer term debt ceiling hike. Defusing a [...]

Yahoo! confirmed on Tuesday that it bought Snip.it, a young San Francisco startup that lets people create scrapbooks with pictures, articles, videos and other content found online. “The Snip.it team created an innovative technology [...]

For years, charges have swirled that a secret Malaysian scheme gave citizenship to huge numbers of illegal migrants in a politically important state in exchange for votes for the ruling coalition. Now, an inquiry [...]

Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site at his Auckland mansion on Sunday, exactly a year after armed police arrested him at the same venue in the world’s largest online piracy [...]

Google has removed a “Make Me Asian” app — that let players change their appearance — following an uproar by Asian American activists who said the game promoted derogatory stereotypes. As of Thursday, “Make [...]

US President Barack Obama took the oath of office Sunday to begin his second term at a simple ceremony stripped of the hope and historic promise that greeted his inauguration four years ago. Pageantry [...]

Six Filipinos were killed in gunfire or explosions during a siege by Islamic militants on a gas plant in Algeria, and four others are missing, the Philippine government said on Monday. “The deaths of [...]

Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) said Monday the worldwide grounding of Boeing’s Dreamliner forced it to cancel 335 flights up to next Sunday, affecting nearly 48,000 passengers. ANA said cancellations on domestic routes from [...]