Facebook now has 1M active advertisers

Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers -- companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days.

Google: We have a First Amendment right to disclose FISA request numbers

Google is taking a stand against FISA gag orders with a pretty simple but powerful appeal: free speech.

Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says

Chomsky makes at least one pretty significant mistake, however. He said that Google Glass has a camera and a recorder, "which means that everything that's going on around you goes up on the Internet."

NSA chief: We do not ‘unilaterally’ obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, and Apple might breathe a little easier today as NSA Director General Keith Alexander lends credibility to their testimony.

Google’s Chromebooks could finally get their big break in Walmart and Staples stores

Targeting the back-to-school shopping rush, Google announced today that its Chromebook computers will soon come to even more major retail stores.

Edward Snowden: Google & Facebook’s PRISM denials were ‘misleading’

The NSA whistle-blower didn't approve of the way Google and other tech companies handled their responses to the PRISM reports.

Cloudflare: 150B pageviews/month, 30GB of log data/minute, and more surfers than Facebook

"It's like a giant game of Risk," Prince says as he talks about trying to put servers in Turkey, which is hard, and settling for Bulgaria, which is the gateway to the country.

Google is working on new tech to eliminate all child porn on the Web

Search and mobile superpower Google is working on new technology that would effectively purge all images of child pornography and abuse from the Web.

Google puts down Facebook and Microsoft to be named most transparent of them all

In the wake of revelations about PRISM, Facebook releases more information about government requests for user data, but Google said its measures aren't going far enough.

Google[x] unveils Project Loon to bring the world Internet via balloon

Google's top-secret ideas lab is working on a project to make Internet access more reliable and affordable in the developing world through a system of roving balloons.

Nexon exec: the game war will be won in digital online markets, not consoles (interview)

The chief financial officer of Nexon saw very little that would impact the future of the game industry at E3.

Brainstorming at 30K feet: Reflections from the ‘hackathon in the sky’

A group of entrepreneurs attempted to solve some of the world's most pressing problems at 30K feet -- with no WiFi. Here are my reflections from the British Airways UnGrounded flight.

Google + Facebook = 70 percent of all mobile ad revenues worldwide

By itself, Google accounts for 56 percent of all global mobile ad revenues. Social giant Facebook takes a much smaller chunk with 13 percent. But together, they own the lion's share of mobile ad dollars.

From $1M to 50 bucks: Apple’s iAd Workbench is finally an ad marketplace that makes sense

Two years ago, Apple debuted iAd with the goals of transforming how ads look, work, and sell, charging massive seven-figure sums for allowing brands the privilege of ushering in a brave new world of mobile advertising and capturing almost half of the mobile ad market. Predictably, iAd iFlopped.

Google Fiber, baseball, a sick kid’s dream, and the first telerobotic pitch in MLB history

Google is helping a little leaguer throw out the first pitch in a major league game today, even though he has a life-threatening blood disease, by using a telerobotic pitching machine -- and Google Fiber.

Former Palm CEO to Apple on iOS 7: Cupertino, you started your photocopiers

Steve Jobs was very upfront about the fact that good artists copy, and great artists steal. According to former Palm CEO -- and Apple SVP -- Jon Rubinstein, the company Steve started is still a great artist.

Study of 61K Amazon Web Services instances finds 23K should improve their security

A new study by by cloud optimization company Newvem checked 61,545 Amazon Web Services instances which total a yearly spend of over $157 million. The good news is that cloud users are getting much more savvy about security, utilization, and optimization.

But there's still room to improve -- a lot of room.