Mashable reports that Yahoo has released a statement, revealing the number of requests received for user information from government agencies in the last 6 months. According to Yahoo, law enforcement agencies made somewhere in the range of 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user information dating from December 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. . Read More
Bloomberg reports that General Electric Co. is recruiting thousands of engineers close to San Francisco in an attempt to link up everything from jet engines to medical-imaging machines to the Internet and assist customers in operating their machines more effectively. . Read More
Telegraph reports that Google will develop a database of child porn images, which it is going to offer to rival companies, in an attempt to eliminate child pornography on the Internet. The company said that its engineers are working on new technology that will enable search engines and other web firms, for the first time, to recognize information regarding photos of children being abused and raped. Read More
Mashable reports that Apple has just released a statement called "Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy," declaring that it isn't involved in the NSA's PRISM program. Apple says in the statement that it does not give any government agency direct access to its servers, and that any government agency asking for customer information is required to obtain a court order. Between December 1, 2012 and May 31 2013, Apple received between 4,000 to 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer information. Read More
TechCrunch reports that on June 20, Facebook will introduce video for Instagram, its popular photo-sharing app, enabling users to take and share short videos, according to a source close to the matter. Facebook hasn't given the details as yet, but it sounds like service will be similar in function to Twitter’s Vin according to Matthew Keys who first broke the story that the video service was being tested internally, and noted the video would be somewhere between 5 to 10 seconds. . Read More
Path, the San Francisco-based private messaging and content sharing network, is in the process of raising $75-$100 million in funding at a valuation approaching $1 billion, TechCrunch reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read More
Trying to reinvent its once popular social media site, Beverly Hills-based Myspace has launched a rebuilt version of its platform, and debuted a new free mobile app for iOS devices. Tim Vanderhook, the CEO of owner Specific Media, said the new site caters to the creative community, enabling artists to manage their digital presence, build an audience, upload and distribute their content and view analytics data. . Read More
