Google announced a major partnership for its Glass wearable device with Luxottica, the company behind several popular eyewear brands that include Ray-Ban and Oakley.

The Mountain View, Calif., tech giant said Luxottica will lend Glass its expertise in eyewear design and manufacturing. Additionally, Luxottica's thousands of retail locations should help Google later on, when the tech company begins to sell Glass to the general public.

Among the other brands made by Luxottica are Vogue-Eyewear, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Alain Mikli and Arnette. But to start, Google said it will be focusing on bringing Glass together with Luxottica's Oakley and Ray-Ban brands.

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Google did not say when users will be able to buy Ray-Ban and Oakley branded versions of Glass.

"You’re not going to see Glass on your favorite Oakleys or Ray-Bans tomorrow, but today marks the start of a new chapter in Glass’s design," Google said in a post....

SAN FRANCISCO -- Box Inc. has made public its plans to raise up to $250 million in an initial public offering, setting the stage for one of the most hotly anticipated offerings to come out of Silicon Valley so far this year.

Box said it plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BOX.

The Los Altos, Calif., online storage company plans to use at least half of the net proceeds for sales and marketing and other initiatives to expand its business as it faces growing competition from technology giants such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. and well-funded start-ups such as Dropbox Inc.

Box filed confidential papers for an IPO in January, taking advantage of a law that allows start-ups to avoid public scrutiny for a time.

The company, which handles online storage for businesses, made the filing public Monday.

In the filing, Box said revenue was $124.2 million for the year that ended Jan. 31, up from $58.8 million the previous year.

Its loss widened to $168.9...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said she declined to limit her company's hiring of Google employees after being approached by two senior executives at the Internet giant.

Sandberg made the declaration in a filing in San Jose federal court on Friday before a high-profile trial in May that will determine whether Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe illegally agreed not to recruit each other's employees.

Sandberg and Facebook are not involved in the case, which grew out of a Department of Justice investigation that was settled in 2010.

The plaintiffs are software and hardware engineers, programmers, Web developers and other technology workers who allege their wages were kept artificially low by secret non-solicitation agreements between the companies.

Sandberg worked at Google and was a top executive there until 2008, when she left for Facebook. That year, she received separate calls from two Google executives expressing concern about a large number of Google...

The (Flappy) Bird is no longer the word -- the latest craze is all about a puzzle game called 2048.

The game, which can be played through the Web, requires that users pair tiles containing similar numbers together to create tiles with larger figures.

The ultimate goal is to add up enough tiles to get one worth a total of 2,048, but the user must do so without filling up the playing field and locking him or herself up from making anymore moves.

The game was created by Italian developer Gabriele Cirulli. His version is playable on computers as well as smartphones and tablets, and it was inspired by two other games that were released earlier this year: 1024 and Threes.

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However, Cirulli's version has gone viral. 2048 has Twitter users buzzing about the puzzle game while Google Playand the Apple App Store have both begun to get inundated with clone versions of the game. Currently, the top free game in the Apple App Store...

Google has released a new app that lets users easily beam pictures from their smartphones, tablets or laptops onto their TVs using the Chromecast streaming device.

The app is called Photowall, and it is the latest Chrome Experiment, which is software created by Google as a way to inspire outside developers on their own projects.

The idea is that with Photowall, users can show their photos to friends during social gatherings by beaming the pictures onto their TVs, rather than passing their smartphone around. 

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"Photowall for Chromecast is a new Chrome Experiment that lets people collaborate with images on the TV — using phones or tablets," the app description reads. "Anyone can take a picture and send it to a Photowall to instantly see it on the big screen."

When starting a Photowall, users first give it a name, such as "Sal's Photowall." Before sending photos, Google also asks users if they would like the...

SAN FRANCISCO -- With urgency growing to convince young people to sign up for healthcare coverage with the March 31 deadline for enrollment under the Affordable Care Act looming, President Obama took questions on Quora on Monday to better explain the complex program to the public.

The appearance on Quora was part of an outreach campaign from the White House to reach young people who are not convinced the program is in their best interest. President Obama also recently appeared on "Between Two Ferns" with comedian Zach Galifianakis.

Quora is a question-and-answer service where experts weigh in. The free-flowing exchange of information and ideas was founded about five years ago by early Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever. It has answers on more than 500,000 topics.

Quora also announced on Monday that it would now verify the accountsof high-profile users such as President Obama, actor Ashton Kutcher, NBA player Jeremy Lin and Facebook Chief Operating Officer...

With Microsoft set to stop supporting Windows XP with security updates in just two weeks, the tech giant is now encouraging users of the 13-year-old operating system to buy new computers by offering them $100 in store credit.

The Redmond, Wash., company recently began offering Windows XP customers up to $100 in credit when they buy a new computer running Windows 8.1 from either its online store or its retail outlets. The deal includes 90 days of free technical support.

The $100 credit applies to computers and laptops ranging from $599 to $2,299. The promotion lasts through June 15 and is available only to customers who can verify that they are currently using a Windows XP machine.

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The Microsoft special appears to be part of the company's strategy to lure Windows XP users into buying a more modern computer ahead of April 8, which is the date the company will issue its final security updates for the 2001 operating...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Trade Commission and California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris say that Facebook is misinterpreting how a children’s privacy law applies to teen privacy in a move that could undercut the giant social network in a federal court case in California.

Facebook users sued the company for using their images in ads on the service without their consent and later settled the class-action lawsuit in 2012.

Children's advocates are challenging the settlement in an effort to require Facebook to get explicit permission from parents before using the personal information — as well as the images, likes and comments — of teens in advertising.

The advocates have asked the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the Facebook settlement. They say the settlement violates the law in seven states, including California, that require parents' permission before a child's image can be used in advertising.

Facebook argued that because the Children’s Online Privacy...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter is working to get its service back up and running in Turkey after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pulled the plug on the social network.

“We stand with our users in Turkey who rely on Twitter as a vital communications platform,” Twitter’s policy team said in a tweet on Friday. “We hope to have full access returned soon.”

The ban was prompted by links posted to Twitter of audio clips that appeared to incriminate Erdogan in corruption ahead of local elections.

Erdogan used a court order to direct Turkey’s telecommunication authority to block Twitter in the country.

Turkish users of Twitter, who number 12 million, have found ways to get around the ban and have been protesting on Twitter.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul himself spoke out against the ban in a series of tweets.

The White House also issued a statement: “We oppose this restriction on the Turkish people’s access to information, which undermines their...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Six technology executives including Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt met with President Obama on Friday to discuss National Security Agency spying in the wake of revelations that the agency may have infected millions of computers around the world with malware.

Also at the meeting were CEOs Reed Hastings of Netflix, Drew Houston of Dropbox, Alex Karap of Palantir Technologies and Aaron Levie of Box.

The CEOs of Yahoo, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Twitter could not make the meeting.

The meeting comes ahead of a March 28 deadline for recommendations on how to end the NSA’s collection of bulk phone records.

Internet companies are closely following the issue because it could affect how the government intercepts Internet data as well.

Zuckerberg recently voiced the jointly held frustration of the tech CEOs that government spying is hurting their businesses around the world.

His comments came after reports surfaced that the...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took to his company's blog this week to call for the implementation of strong net neutrality rules.

Hasting's More...