Yannick LeJacq

Instagram published its new Privacy Policy Monday that suggest deeper integration within Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) than the two services have demonstrated so far in their history together.

The popular and increasingly controversial photo sharing service Snapchat has introduced its social network to an entirely new medium: Video.

A new bill put forward by Minnesota Senator Al Franken, the Location Privacy Protection Act, has been approved by a U.S. Senate committee. The bill aims to limit the ability of software developers and mobile app users to track the activity of other smartphones without their owners' knowledge or consent.

Electronic Arts has subsumed its Play4Free portfolio within its larger digital distribution platform Origin in order to eliminate any apparent differences between its free-to-play titles and its premium content.

Free-to-play mobile games are set to make up 80 percent of the hefty $10 billion smartphone users are expected to spend in 2012, a report from the research and consulting firm Flurry says.

Gigya, a web infrastructure company, has introduced a unique solution to the mounting concern of protecting user privacy and social data: listing industry standard best practices, and approving different companies with a social privacy certification and seal.

A new study suggests rocks on the moon or Mars could be used as the base material for 3D printers by a process called “laser engineered net shaping.”

Following shortly after it finalized its deal with Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX), mobile payment start-up Square is close to finalizing a partnership with luxury fashion retailer Burberry, a report from The Next Web said Wednesday.

Snapchat, a mobile photo-sharing service that has come under criticism for being little more than a "sexting" app, is set to receive venture capital funding from Benchmark Capital, GigaOM reported Wednesday.

Rovio has officially announced that it is producing a CGI animated film based on its iconic “Angry Birds” franchise.

Twitter is introducing a new photo editing and sharing service to its social network in response to a growing tension between the startup and Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) over its use of Instagram images.

Nintendo’s (PINK: NTDOY) Wii U failed to surpass sales of its immediate predecessor on its opening weekend in Japan.

Rep. Steve Israel fears current firearms legislation lapsing in the face of a wave of 3D-printed guns from hobbyists and manufacturers.

Musician and composer Trent Reznor is working with Interscope Records and Beats by Dre to develop a new music-streaming service known as Daisy, the Nine Inch Nails front man revealed in a profile for The New Yorker.

Sales for Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) latest “Call of Duty” game dropped 14 percent from their position in 2011 with "Modern Warfare 3," a decline in sales that occurred despite "Black Ops 2" reaching $1 billion in sales faster than any previous installment in the franchise.

Video game sales dipped 11 percent for the month of the November from the same period in 2011, a new report from NPD states.

Metallica and Sean Parker ended their feud over music-sharing as the metal band announced it would add its catalog to the popular streaming service.

Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) has begun to apply with state regulators in Nevada to license its online and mobile games for real-money gambling.

A new study from W3i found that microtransactions only contribute a small amount to the overall revenue of mobile games, calling into question the presumed success of freemium business models.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled its own social network, known as Socl, to allow users to create visual posts in a manner similar to Pinterest.

Egenera is acquiring the cloud software firm Fort Technologies to expand its front-end enterprise cloud services.

Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) netted $1 billion in sales of its new video game, "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2," in just 15 days, a day faster than its predecessor, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3."

Yahoo Tuesday announced that it bought out the video chat startup OnTheAir as part of its mobile/web development talent acquisition plan.

A U.S. judge said the $4B in fines against Microsoft for the Xbox 360 was undue punishment for the alleged patent dispute.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has opened its messenger application to mobile users without active accounts with the popular social network, beginning with Android owners.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has partnered with Glasgow animation studio Axis to continue updating episodic content for "Halo 4: Spartan Ops."

Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) has signed two of the stars of AMC’s popular television series “The Walking Dead,” Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker, for its upcoming shooter, “The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.”

Nintendo (PINK: NTDOY) sold a disappointing 40,000 units of its new Wii U video game console during its first 48 hours on the market in the UK, failing to place a single launch title in the top ten for video games sales on its first weekend in the country.

Cody Wilson, the 24-year-old founder of Defense Distributed, is sharing plans to make a weapon online: No experience necessary.