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Victor Hernandez recently sat down with Klout CEO and co-founder, Joe Fernandez to discuss why web users should know their score, how brands are capitalizing on rewarding key influencers, the company's first acquisition and why burritos are credited with helping shape the initial idea behind Klout.

The Obama administration said its suggestions would empower consumers regarding use of their personal data gleaned from Internet searches.

A coalition of Internet companies including Google has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year.

Etisalat said it will shut down Indian unit Etisalat DB's operations after the country's Supreme Court ordered to cancel all mobile-telecommunications service licenses issued in 2008 on complaints of corruption in their allotment.

The images of nearly every major stretch of road taken by Google's Street View team and the snapshots we capture with our smartphones may soon be all we need to navigate the world, according to an Australian researcher.

It's a no-brainer, a pair of glasses that uses image recognition, sensors and GPS to tell you what you're looking at. According to the New York Times, Google will introduce a pair of these by the end of 2012.

Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated.

A selection of smartphone apps allow users to create their own ringtones.

Dell's new ultrabook is compact, well-built and speedy, sporting a good backlit keyboard and a bright screen. But it has subpar battery life.

Smartphones may some day help people take better control of their health by tracking it with increasing precision and convenience.

The sky is falling … sort of. Over the last 10 years, the height of clouds has been shrinking, according to new research.

California's attorney general reached a deal with six of the largest companies in the mobile-device market over privacy policies for apps.

Researchers have discovered a new species of lizard in a strange place. The brightly colored, water-loving lizards live in the Andes Mountains in southern Peru — an odd place to find them, scientists say, because of the chilly conditions.

Start-ups and small businesses are embracing a new tactic in trademark battles—online shame—by rallying support via websites and other social media.

Hewlett-Packard's fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 44% as sales in the company's personal computers business continued to fall.

Several start-ups are hoping to piggyback on the recent popularity of social-networking site Pinterest.com.

Turkey has that most scarce, yet highly sought-after, attribute among European economies: growth. With this rising tide, is now the time for investors to be contemplating Turkey's growing Internet economy?

Some early adopters of Hadoop, software that makes it easier and cheaper to analyze vast amounts of data, say it challenging to use and rolling it out will take time.

In the field of climate science, when someone — especially skeptics — did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul.

An old home video from the tail end of a family trip to Disney World appears to show images of the space shuttle exploding. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)