Technology Report: France fines Google in Street View data case

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	03/21/2011
Good afternoon Bit AT&T's planned buy of T-Mobile USA is ultimately expected to get regulatory approval, combining the second and fourth largest wireless operators to create a new leader that will control around 43 percent of the U.S. wireless market. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson suggested he had little choice but to do it as AT&T is in dire need of more wireless airwaves to increase network capacity for mobile Web services. Google announced that it's partnering with Sprint to integrate the free calling and texting service Google Voice with the carrier's feature phones and smartphones. Sprint customers will be able to use their existing Sprint mobile number as their Google Voice number. Nokia's strategy for entering the tablet computer market may not include Microsoft, its recently announced partner for smartphones, according to a person with knowledge of the company's thinking. Microsoft widened its legal assault on devices running on Google's Android system, filing lawsuits for patent infringement against bookseller Barnes & Noble over its Nook electronic book reader. Facebook's creation of a mobile payment subsidiary and registration of it in a number of states could signal the social network's intent to get more broadly involved in the payments business, writes VentureBeat's Owen Thomas. Bypassing credit-card processing fees from its Facebook Credits business and the possible creation of an ad network to rival Google's AdSense were seen as potential driving factors. LATEST NEWS France fines Google in Street View data case March 21, 2011 03:43 PM ET PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection regulator has fined Google 100,000 euros for collecting private data from wireless networks when its camera-equipped cars gathered footage for its on-line map service Street View. | Full Article Facebook to buy mobile app developer Snaptu March 20, 2011 05:00 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook has agreed to buy Snaptu, an application developer for mobile devices that are less sophisticated than smartphones, as the world's largest Internet social network focuses on expanding its mobile services. | Full Article AT&T's big deal lifts Wall Street March 21, 2011 04:37 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buyers emerged on Monday in U.S. stocks, enticed by the biggest proposed merger of the year, though crises in Japan, the Middle East and North Africa meant market volatility would continue. | Full Article Home sales tumble, prices are near 9-year low March 21, 2011 04:56 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes plunged in February and prices hit their lowest level in nearly nine years, indicating a housing market recovery was still a long way off. | Full Article Special Report: Disasters show flaws in just-in-time production March 21, 2011 02:19 PM ET TSUCHIURA, Japan/DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Just over a week after the massive earthquake hit the sprawling Texas Instruments chip plant here, a gardener is reworking the Japanese garden in an inner courtyard of the office tower attached to the plant. | Full Article BUSINESS NEWS Citi to resume dividend, sets reverse stock split March 21, 2011 01:21 PM ET NEW YORK/CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc will resume paying a nominal dividend after it uses a reverse stock split to shrink the number of shares outstanding, taking another step in its long recovery from the financial crisis. | Full Article High jobless rate mostly cyclical: Fed paper March 21, 2011 04:38 PM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - The current high rate of unemployment in the United States is primarily due to cyclical factors, not structural changes in the economy, according to researchers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. | Full Article Strikes on Libya set to slow, stalemate feared March 21, 2011 04:30 PM ET TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Attacks on Libya are likely to slow in the coming days, a U.S. general said on Monday, as Western powers consolidate a no-fly zone that some say is unlikely to bring an early end to the country's civil war. | Full Article Radiation anxiety grows in disaster-struck Japan March 21, 2011 04:14 PM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - Global anxiety rose over radiation from Japan's crippled nuclear plant even as engineers had some success in the battle to avert disaster from the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. | Full Article Top Yemeni generals back democracy protesters March 21, 2011 03:40 PM ET SANAA (Reuters) - Top generals, ambassadors and some tribes threw their support behind Yemen's anti-government protesters on Monday in a major blow to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's efforts to ride out demands for his immediate exit. | Full Article U.S. TOP NEWS New York Times journalists released from Libyan custody Japan a "buying opportunity," will recover: Buffett Man jailed for spreading radiation rumors New royal wedding one-stop shop app launches Putin frolics with snow leopard RELATED VIDEO China IDs global market in face recognition technology Quake's data could be key to minimizing future incidents New animation shows progression of Japan quake A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. 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