Barbara Ortutay, Author at Valley News

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, center, celebrates the opening bell at Nasdaq as his company holds its IPO, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in New York. The videoconferencing company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

IPO mania: Zoom zooms, Pinterest pins down Wall Street

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterApril 20, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s some tech jubilance in the air on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley as a pair of newly public companies — Zoom and Pinterest — saw their stocks soar on their first trading day.No one wants talk about a bubble, not to mention…

Social media battles misinformation in vaccine wars

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterApril 6, 2019

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2018 file photo, a Facebook start page is shown on a smartphone in Surfside, Fla. A growing number of people say they are deleting Facebook, or at least considering it. Before you take the plunge, remember to download your data, then, you can deactivate temporarily, or delete everything in a few steps. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Making the Break, Forever, From Facebook

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterDecember 22, 2018

FILE- In this Oct. 26, 2016, file photo two men wait to cross the street under a sign at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter says it is releasing all of the accounts and posts related to “information operations” it has found on its service since 2016 when it and other social media companies were first found to have been used by foreign agents to meddle with U.S. elections. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Twitter Airs Data On Election Interference

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterOctober 20, 2018

FILE - In this March 27, 2018, file photo, a reporter holds a phone showing the Facebook app in San Francisco. It might not seem like a big deal to have long-forgotten accounts on social media linger. But with hacking in the news constantly, including a breach affecting 50 million Facebook accounts, you might not want all that data sitting around. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Purging Long-Forgotten Online Accounts: Worth the Trouble?

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterOctober 20, 2018

FILE - In this April 7, 2011, file photo, CEO Kevin Systrom, at left, chats with engineers Shayne Sweeney, center, and Mike Krieger at Instagram in San Francisco. In a statement late Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, Systrom said in a statement that he and Krieger, Instagram’s chief technical officer, plan to leave the company in the next few weeks and take time off “to explore our curiosity and creativity again.” (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Future of Instagram Pivotal for Facebook

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterSeptember 26, 2018

This undated image provided by the American Civil Liberties Union shows a Facebook advertisement for jobs at the the City of Greensboro's police department. The ad placed by the city was targeted to “men ages 25 to 35 who live or were recently near Philadelphia.” Such targeting information is available to Facebook users when they click on “why am I seeing this” on a drop-down menu on the ad. The ACLU accused Facebook of discrimination, saying the company violated federal and state laws prohibiting businesses from excluding women from job ads. In a complaint filed Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, the ACLU also lists 10 employers that it claims have placed discriminatory ads including the Greensboro ad. (American Civil Liberties Union via AP)

ACLU: Facebook Allows Gender Biased Job Ads

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterSeptember 20, 2018

Facebook Finds ‘Sophisticated’ Efforts to Disrupt Elections

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterJuly 31, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 9, 2018, to meet with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Zuckerberg will testify Tuesday before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Facebook CEO Prepares Apology for Congress

by Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press, and Barbara Ortutay Associated PressApril 10, 2018

FILE - This July 1, 2016, file photo, shows the Facebook Data Center in Prineville, Ore. Facebook frequently defends its data collection and sharing activities by noting that it's adhering to a privacy policy it shares with users. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Facebook Privacy Policy Full of Surprises

by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology WriterMarch 26, 2018