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Unemployed or underemployed? There's an app for that
Kai Ryssdal Sep 27, 2012
In a digital twist on the age-old practice of paying people to do odd jobs for you, new smartphone apps like TaskRabbit and Postmates allow you to hire your own personal assistants -- to say, clean your home, buy your groceries or run errands.
Apps collect data on users even when not in use
Sarah Gardner Sep 4, 2012
Even when certain apps aren't being used, they collect a lot of information about users.
As apps rise in popularity, will cookbooks fall out of favor?
L.V. Anderson Sep 4, 2012
With so many ways to find recipes and cooking tips these days, many food enthusiasts wonder if cookbooks will go the way of the dodo.
What the Apple-Samsung verdict means for your apps
Adriene Hill Aug 28, 2012
How the jury's decision in the patent infringement case could change things for app developers.
Google hiding 'pirate' sites to make friends in Hollywood
John Moe Aug 14, 2012
As the search giant branches into Hollywood, it takes a tougher stance on copyright issues.
What Google wants with travel guide Frommer's
Kai Ryssdal Aug 13, 2012
Mergers and acquisitions news today as Google adds guidebook company Frommer's to its travel and entertainment quiver. What does the search company want to do with the old-school guidebook?
Buying coffee, and giving up some privacy
John Moe Aug 9, 2012
The new deal between Starbucks and Square signals a new era of baristas knowing who you are before you enter the store.
FTC proposes an update to ancient online law, COPPA
John Moe Aug 2, 2012
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act may get its first update since Mark Zuckerberg was a 15-year-old.
Marissa Mayer to the rescue of Yahoo
Sally Herships Jul 17, 2012
Corporate turnarounds of big companies are rare. How much can Yahoo’s new CEO do to revive a company eclipsed by Google and Facebook?
Yahoo appoints Google exec Marissa Mayer as new CEO
Scott Tong Mar 5, 2013
37-year-old Marissa Mayer will become Yahoo's fifth CEO in five years. She's a longtime Google executive and an architect of what the tech world calls the 'Google User Experience.'
