National Security Agency

Setting a precedent for the telecom industry, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said Thursday that beginning next year it would publish detailed reports on the number of government requests it receives for customer data, according to The Associated Press. Verizon said it would publish its first report online...

The National Security Agency is coming under fire again after it was revealed that the agency may have secretly broken into data centers from both Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). According to the Washington Post, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has provided documents...

US markets have been operating on the assumption that the US Federal Reserve will continue with its bond buying plan until March of 2014. With the Fed meeting to come to a close on Wednesday afternoon, most are hoping the bank won’t have any surprises in store. The recent rallies in stocks and...

The dollar sagged on Tuesday as the two day US Federal Reserve policy meeting got underway. Most are expecting the bank to maintain its easy money asset purchase program and delay any cut backs on the stimulus until at least March. September’s US manufacturing output did little to support the...

The NSA hacking scandal has taken front page of newspapers around the world of late and has threatened to disrupt diplomatic relations between major economies, the most recent flare-up occurring between Russia and the United Kingdom. With revelations from companies over the last several days and...

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of numerous tech companies, such as AOL's (NYSE: AOL) Netscape and Ning, and co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning to talk about the world of tech, including his views on Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO...

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (NYSE: GE) and founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute, went on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning to seemingly give his opinion on everything in his scope. Welch started off by expressing that Edward Snowden, now famous for unveiling classified...