Twitch, Amazon’s (AMZN) live video game streaming site, expired all user passwords, saying some may have been compromised. In a Twitch blog post Monday, the streaming site said there “may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information.” So it’s expired passwords and disconnected accounts from Twitter (TWTR) and Google (GOOGL) YouTube. Amazon paid $970 million last year to acquire Twitch, with the steep price a sign of the
Tesla (TSLA) stock was down 1.5% Thursday after CEO Elon Musk introduced not a way to boost how far the carmaker’s electric Model S can go between recharges, but instead ways to route drivers to the nearest charger and warn them before they’re out of range. Musk set off a frenzy of speculation — the pondering kind, not the investing kind (although Tesla stock did rise 3% Wednesday) — when he tweeted on Twitter (TWTR) Sunday: “Tesla press conf at
Big Blue is trying to get bigger piece of Big Data. IBM (IBM) on Tuesday said it has launched what it called “industry first cloud data services” that lets companies mine information directly from Twitter (TWTR), as a way to help their businesses. The partnership already has more than 100 companies using the service, looking to glean information that can make an impact on how they run their businesses, IBM said. IBM is one of several companies,