Archive for 'Sci Tech'

Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Internet privacy groups will be the beneficiary of the settlement, which came as the result of a lawsuit filed over Google’s maligned Buzz launch.

Reporters’ Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week’s show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.

Facebook adds ‘liked’ news stories to search results

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user’s friends have said they “like.”

Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results.

Are the days of kidney dialysis numbered?

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

A prototype implantable artificial kidney could, in the next decade, render costly and inefficient dialysis a treatment of the past, according to work out of UCSF.