Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >

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Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint

Fewer people were declared insolvent in 2011 in England and Wales than in 2010, but the number of companies going bust increased.

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Personal insolvencies ‘down 11%’

House Republicans will present a long-awaited plan to fund the nation’s transportation system on Tuesday, a proposal that would shift more decision-making authority to state governments, dramatically reduce the time spent on environmental reviews and encourage private companies to expand the highway system by building toll roads . Read full article > >

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House Republicans to unveil transportation bill

A staggering manufacturing system in China has made it possible for Apple and other companies to make devices almost as quickly as they can be dreamed up, but for workers, it can be dangerous.

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The iEconomy: Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China

For the first time in a series of debates, Mitt Romney was on the offensive. He aggressively tore into Newt Gingrich’s time as House speaker and the ensuing years, when he advised companies like Freddie Mac.

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Romney Unleashes Attack With Gingrich Sole Target

The Justice Department’s shutdown of the popular file-sharing site Mega­upload.com reverberated across the Internet on Friday, sparking fresh questions for major Web companies while rattling millions of users of sites like it. Read full article > >

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Megaupload shutdown raises new Internet-sharing fears

A huge sunspot unleashed a blob of charged plasma Thursday that space weather watchers predict will blast past the Earth on Sunday. Satellite operators and power companies are keeping a close eye on the incoming cloud, which could distort the Earth’s magnetic field and disrupt radio communications, especially at higher latitudes. Read full article > >

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Sun shoots a fastball at Earth, but minimal impact expected

A huge sunspot unleashed a blob of charged plasma Thursday that space weather watchers predict will blast past the Earth on Sunday. Satellite operators and power companies are keeping a close eye on the incoming cloud, which could distort the Earth’s magnetic field and disrupt radio communications, especially at higher latitudes. Read full article > >

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Sun shoots a fastball at Earth, but minimal impact expected

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced Friday he would delay consideration of measure to combat online piracy, bowing to pressure from a coalition of Internet companies, including Google and Wikipedia, that rallied consumers to their side by saying the legislation could lead to the censorship of popular sites. Read full article > >

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PIPA Senate vote to be delayed, Reid announces

Federal authorities Thursday indicted two firms and shut down one of the Web’s most popular sites for sharing illegally pirated material, triggering a quick response from hackers who claimed credit for taking down the Web sites of the Justice Department, Recording Industry Association of America and other media companies in retaliation. Read full article > >

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Federal indictment claims popular Web site Megaupload.com shared pirated material

This is what happens when you make the Internet mad. On Wednesday, a group of technology companies are staging an unusual form of protest: They are shutting down their own popular Web sites for a day to show their unhappiness with two Internet-regulation bills grinding through Congress. They argue that the bills would impose huge regulatory costs and stifle innovation on the Web. Read full article > >

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SOPA protests shut down Web sites

Must disclose payments from drug companies.

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U.S. to Force Docs to Reveal Lobbying

To head off medical conflicts of interest, the companies would be required to disclose what they pay doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment.

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U.S. to Tell Drug Makers to Disclose Payments to Doctors

As sprawling e-commerce companies like Amazon act more like their big-box brethren, little sites are fighting back with some tactics of their own.

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Some Shoppers Rebel Against Giant Web Retailers

For the first time in the company’s history, Apple has publicly disclosed its list of suppliers. The firm lists 156 companies, many of which are not in the United States. Apple has been criticized in the past for the working conditions in its supplier factories — conditions highlighted by worker suicides at one Foxconn factory and an explosion at another, as well as a recent explosion at another supplier factory, Pegatron. Read full article > >

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Apple discloses its suppliers