Tech companies want you to have free web encryption

Ideally, you’d encrypt everything you do on the web to keep it away from spies and thieves. However, getting a security certificate to enable that encryption on your own site can be both costly and difficult — many people don’t even bother....

Amazon Moves to Extend Cloud-Computing Dominance

Most people know about Amazon’s ambitions to sell you everything from books and movies and smartphones to power tools and auto parts. Less understood outside the technology industry is just how aggressively the company is also trying to become an important technology...