Murdoch pulls Fox News from Sky platform as UK mulls takeover deal

Rupert Murdoch has pulled his Fox News channel from the Sky platform in Britain, where the government is assessing a bid by the media mogul to buy the broader Sky pay-TV company for $15 billion. In a statement, Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox said it had...

Foursquare pioneered the trend of ‘checking-in’ to a place — now it sells your data to companies

Foursquare has gone from a social media app that let users broadcast their favorite bars or restaurants online by “checking-in,” to a company that provides location-based data to some of the biggest retail names in the world: Apple, Microsoft and Samsung...