Recent articles by John Ribeiro
June 19, 2013
A Dell special committee has rejected a new proposal from a key shareholder Carl C. Icahn, and said it will continue to support the proposal by founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take the company private.
June 19, 2013
3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over US$400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer presence.
June 18, 2013
Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday.
June 18, 2013
Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by over 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers.
June 14, 2013
New legislation in New York city aims to regulate the use of 3-D printers to make firearms, as the U.S. tries to cope with the possible proliferation online of drawings for making such arms.
June 13, 2013
Yahoo is resetting email accounts that have not been used for at least 12 months and issuing them to other users.
June 12, 2013
Rambus has signed a US$240 million patent licensing agreement with SK Hynix, ending a nearly 13-year patent dispute between the two companies over memory-chip technology.
June 12, 2013
Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have joined Google in asking for greater transparency in surveillance requests, following widespread criticism of the U.S. government's surveillance programs and the role of the Internet companies.
June 12, 2013
Google has detected large-scale phishing attacks targeting users in Iran, ahead of presidential elections in the country.
June 11, 2013
Civil rights groups have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for the legal justification of the U.S. government's surveillance of Verizon's customer records.