Complaint Filed to FTC Over Facebook-WhatsApp Deal

The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebooks $19 billion acquisition with WhatsApp. The privacy groups are concerned that allowing Facebook to have access to the 450 million WhatsApp users could lead to “unfair and deceptive trade practices.” This is not … Read more

Yahoo Makes Users Sign up for Yahoo ID

Yahoo is changing the rules by making users have a Yahoo ID if they want to access their services.  Currently, users have been able to access Yahoo’s services such as Flickr by using their Facebook or Google log in credentials. Now however, the search engine is making all users have their own Yahoo ID. The … Read more

Zynga to Re-Launch Mobile Games

Zynga, the gaming company that was famous for producing FarmVille and Words with Friends is now relaunching some of their games in order to appeal to the mobile market. FarmVille generated more than 400 million players and remains one of Zynga’s most popular titles. To date, the game has only been available on the web … Read more

Kickstarter Reaches Over $1 Billion in Pledges

Kickstarter, the popular crowd funding website has reached more than $1 billion in pledges since it began five years ago.  Since 2013, Kickstarter has been growing in popularity and just in the last 12 months the site has already generated $500 million. Today, Kickstarter announced that it has bypassed the $1 billion dollar mark thanks … Read more