Industry

Wall Street Beat: Tech IPOs, M&A continues to heat up

A strong stock market fuels activity

Rights groups plan anti-NSA surveillance rally in D.C.

ACLU, EFF, Mozilla among nearly 100 organizations planning event on 12th anniversary of U.S. Patriot Act

Flash storage vendor Violin falls on IPO

Shares in the maker of fast solid-state arrays closed down more than 17 percent on opening day

What kind of ads would you ‘like’? Facebook wants to know

The site's news feed algorithms will start placing more emphasis on feedback from people rather than marketers

US gov’t shutdown could take money from IT workers, contracts

Congress and the Obama administration have until Tuesday to work out a compromise to keep the government open

CIOs See Big Data as Internet-Like Innovation Platform for Government

France sanctions Google for European privacy law violations

The action follows a French-led analysis of Google's new privacy policy

Gartner to IT shops: ‘Game over’ for BlackBerry

Upcoming Gartner report will recommend that enter[rise users quickly find alternatives to BlackBerry smartphones and servers

Water! NASA’s Curiosity rover finds H2O in Mars soil

First time that robotic explorers find that water exists on Martian surface today

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought

Security researchers identified attacks that exploited the vulnerability to target organizations in Taiwan since at least July