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Twitter: Govt. requests for user data increased 08/04/2014 05:10pm • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter said government requests for user data grew sharply in the past six months as more countries asked for a greater amount of information about users.More than half of the requests came from the United States, as has been the case since Twit Google confirms it sold barge docked in Maine 08/04/2014 07:40am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Google Inc. is confirming that the barge it docked in Maine has been sold.The barge carries dozens of old shipping containers that were joined to create a four-story building. Google envisioned it as one of three floating retail stores.The Portland Press Herald says an intern Utah lobbyists required to wear badges at Capitol 08/01/2014 04:32pm • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Lobbyists at Utah's Capitol became marked people on Friday, as a new law went into effect requiring them to wear a badge bearing their name and the word "lobbyist" as they try to influence public officials.They also must disclose who they're Ravens' Rice: His actions 'totally inexcusable' 08/01/2014 01:28pm • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) -- Ray Rice stepped to the microphone, took a deep breath and spoke for 17 minutes about what he called "the biggest mistake of his life."His arrest for domestic violence against his then-fiancee last February is something Rice figures will haun Facebook's Internet.org expands in Zambia 08/01/2014 11:10am • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's Internet.org project is taking another step toward its goal of bringing the Internet to people who are not yet online, launching an app Thursday in Zambia.The Internet.org app will give subscribers of Zambia's Airtel phone company acce Take a 'Moment' to see whether you're addicted to your iPhone 08/01/2014 10:33am • Sophie Ho, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON -- If you've realized that you're replacing real conversations with Twitter back-and-forths, or that you spend more time Instagramming your food than actually eating it, it may be time to ask "Am I addicted to my phone?" Enter Moment: an iOS app that clo Md. firm reportedly leaves customers, employees high and dry 08/01/2014 02:44am • WASHINGTON -- Shea Winpigler is hoping to make it big in entertainment. The broadcast journalism major at the University of Maryland found a summer job that she thought would be a good fit: working at InterFACE, a talent marketing firm that claims on its website that it's helped "over 10,000 peo Microsoft spreads Cortana abroad in Windows Phone 07/31/2014 07:32pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft is spreading its Cortana digital assistant abroad, starting with China and the U.K.The company's corporate vice president of operating systems, Joe Belfiore, said Wednesday in Beijing that Chinese and British users of Windows Phones will get the voice-recognizing app in Chevy Chase Village Wants Signalized Connecticut Avenue Crosswalk 07/31/2014 10:25am • Chevy Chase Village isn’t satisfied with a plan to put a flashing yellow pedestrian signal on what the Village says could be a key crossing of six-lane Connecticut Avenue. The Maryland State Highway Administration has proposed the flashing yellow signal for Lenox Street and Connecticut Avenue Escaping email: Inspired vision or hallucination? 07/31/2014 04:10am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Dustin Moskovitz is plotting an escape from email.The 30-year-old entrepreneur has learned a lot about communication since he teamed up with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook a decade ago, and that knowledge is fueling US companies increasingly fish for growth overseas 07/30/2014 06:26am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Major U.S. companies are starting to reap their most rapid growth in fertile lands of opportunity far from home.Technology trendsetters Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. all mined foreign countries to produce earnings o Samsung postpones launch of Tizen smartphone 07/30/2014 03:30am • YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it is delaying sales of its first Tizen-powered smartphone in the latest setback to the company's ambition to create a mobile platform to rival Google's Android or Apple's iOS.The South Korean company ha The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store 07/29/2014 06:19pm • The Associated Press App Store Official Charts for the week ending July 28, 2014:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.2. Minecraft - Pocket Edition, Mojang3. Afterlight, Afterlight Collective, Inc4. Facetune, Lightricks Ltd.5. Sleep Cycle alarm clock, Northcube AB6. 7 Minute Workout Chall T-Mobile deal helps Rhapsody hit 2M paying subs 07/29/2014 01:10am • SEATTLE (AP) -- Rhapsody International Inc. said Tuesday its partnership with T-Mobile US Inc. has helped boost its number of paying subscribers to more than 2 million, up from 1.7 million in April.Last month, Rhapsody teamed up with the nation's fourth-largest carrier on a new service called unRadi Facebook 2Q earnings, revenue soar 07/27/2014 10:38am • The Associated Press MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Facebook is on a roll. The world's largest online social network posted sharply higher earnings on Wednesday as revenue from mobile advertising continued to grow, and more people used it, more often.The company's shares climbed nearly 4 percent in ext