U.S. counterterrorism officials argued Wednesday for encryption specialists such as Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOGL) to provide backdoor access to their locked platforms so law enforcement can more easily detect and find terrorists, as the war on Islamic State broadens in the aftermath of the Paris massacre. ISIS recruiters have used Twitter (TWTR) to find sympathizers, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday during a New York cybersecurity
The Apple (AAPL) Watch is hot. So are Samsung TVs, Nike (NKE) running shoes and Activision Blizzard’s (ATVI) “Call of Duty” video game. So sayeth the IBM (IBM) Watson Trend app, which uses its “understanding of natural language and machine learning technologies” to sort through 10,000 online sources — think Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), blogs, forums, reviews, etc. — to determine which products will be hot this holiday season. Each item’s trend
Google+, the long-suffering social network of Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned Google, has decided to focus on connecting users by common interests, rather than through user-to-user connections Google+ long ago lost its battle with Facebook (FB), not to mention Twitter (TWTR), LinkedIn (LNKD) and newer upstarts like Snapchat. The effort to manufacture a social network — making Google+ a hub to Google services, or factoring Google+ in search results —