Civil liberties organization The Rutherford Institute filed a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of Brandon Raub, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who was detained in a psychiatric facility due to posts he made on Facebook. He was taken into custody last August after being questioned by the FBI over the more »

Not too long ago, Google launched a brand new version of Google Music that includes key features from services such as Pandora and Spotify. Google Play Music All Access lets users stream every song from Google’s catalog for $9.99 a month. Song and entire albums can also be added to a user’s library and listened more »

As a kid, playing with Legos was both fun and educational. Even now, I use them to help my son continue to develop his motor skills. Legos are often used by adults as a way to use nostalgia for a simple concept. Since Netflix is a big hit, a new company Pleygo is playing off more »

Square is on a roll with new products. It’s slowly rolling out a service that allows you to send money via email to whoever you want. For now the page is pretty secretive, only allowing users to try out the product by invite-only. There are a few details of how it works on the Help more »

The Internet is a vital part of our everyday lives–we rely on it to perform daily functions like navigating our next destination or connecting with family and friends. According to the following infographic by InternetProviders.com, online retail is expected to be worth $279 billion by 2015. Despite the growing need for accessing the Web, there more »

The deal has been sealed for Yahoo to acquire the ultra popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has promised there won’t be any significant changes to the platform, and will provide ads that are “seamless and enhance user experience.” However, with the way the Internet giant has capitalized on both more »

If you’re a user of Pandora and like to stay on top of all the new music, you should be pretty excited now. Pandora is launching a new station that will allow US users to preview an album a week before release date. The new station is called “Pandora Premieres,” and it will feature albums more »

Yahoo has made a couple bold moves in an effort to make Flickr the premier destination for storing and sharing photographs. Flickr user’s homepages have been completely redesigned to make the photos more prominent than ever. There’s also a spot to upload a profile feature and a customizable banner. It’s reminiscent of Facebook timelines. The second big more »

And just like that, after being the subject of tech talks last weekend, Yahoo made it official and announced that they’ve reached an agreement with Tumblr. Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. None other than Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer wrote via the company’s official Tumblr, announcing the acquisition deal. In the said Tumblr post, more »

Google Showed off a brand new version of the web-based Google Maps a couple days ago at Google I/O. At that time, access to the new maps was restricted to those who chose to sign up for an invitation. Those invitations started to roll out yesterday afternoon. If you requested an invitation, check your email more »