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Less than one day after Microsoft Corp. released Tay, an artificially intelligent software chatbot that communicated through messages on social-media services, the program went rogue.

Yahoo’s shareholders should side with Starboard in its quest to shake up the Internet company’s board.

Google’s efforts to enter the Cuban market have benefited from the frequent alignment of its interests with those of the administration.

The evolution in how people consume news is expected to figure heavily into a brewing antitrust battle over Tribune Publishing’s bid to become a major media player in Southern California.

Now, Alabama and some other states want to ignore the law of the land and begin imposing taxes without solving the problems.

German engineering group Robert Bosch took a step forward in its efforts to marry the Internet of Things to heavy manufacturing by announcing a new collaboration with the U.S.-based Industrial Internet Consortium.

FCC officials soon will seek to impose new customer-privacy rules on Internet access providers, fueling industry conflict.

A German court has ruled that domestic websites may not transfer visitor data to Facebook Inc. via its “like” button without the visitors’ knowledge or consent.

INRIX said the deal could help auto makers lessen reliance on Apple or Google for features aimed at connecting drivers to the outside world.

Federal officials released a draft plan to expand an existing phone subsidy for low-income people to include broadband Internet service.

One of the Internal Revenue Service’s tools for fighting identity theft was itself susceptible to identity thieves.

Sina’s revenue was helped by Weibo Corp. but the Chinese Internet company projected 2016 revenue below estimates.

A Brazilian court ordered the release of a senior Facebook executive a day after police arrested him in response to the company’s failure to provide access to WhatsApp messages linked to an organized-crime and drug-trafficking investigation.

AT&T said it will start offering a version of its DirecTV satellite service over the Internet later this year, but the nation’s largest pay-TV provider disclosed few details of the plan