2020-05-20 05:19
Spotify Technology have said that comedian Joe Rogan's podcast will be available on the music streaming platform starting the 1st of September and will become an exclusive later this year… Read More
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2020-05-19 22:51
Building a productive office environment has been a priority for companies. Business managers have been the first to embrace new ideas to create an inviting and friendly workplace that repr… Read More
2020-05-19 20:58
High levels of automation are becoming the norm for business across the economy. From the global industry giants to mom and pop businesses, there is a focus on streamlining efforts and maxi… Read More
2020-05-19 20:22
A lot of business owners are obsessed with sales - and rightly so. However, to generate sales, you need to create leads. A lead is someone who might be interested in what you have to offer… Read More
2020-05-19 19:05
The coronavirus pandemic has forced people from all walks of life out of our normal lines of work. It has also opened our eyes to the fact many do not actually enjoy the jobs they have been… Read More
2020-05-19 08:33
Money trumped spying as the top motivator for data breaches last year, according to Verizon's annual report on cyber crimes published on Tuesday.
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Verizon's annual report o… Read More
2020-05-19 08:26
A White House advisory panel will call for the government and private industry to work together to build new technological infrastructure to support future jobs and provide the underpinning… Read More
2020-05-19 02:29
Top technology services businesses are offering payment deferrals, discounts of up to 20% and other sweeteners to some US banks to keep their business as COVID-19 forces Wall Street to cut… Read More
2020-05-19 02:18
New Zealand will launch a contact-tracing app on Wednesday to help people track their movements as the country eases one of the world's most rigid lockdowns designed to slow the spread of C… Read More
2020-05-19 01:56
Uber Technologies will concentrate on its core businesses in ride-hailing and food delivery, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an Email to employees, announcing the company's second round of jo… Read More
2020-05-19 01:49
Amazon's French warehouses are set to reopen today with about 30% of employees, three union officials said, ending a month-long dispute over whether the e-commerce giant was doing enough to… Read More
2020-05-19 01:44
Walt Disney Co's top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become the CEO of TikTok, the popular video app owned by China's ByteDance Techn… Read More
2020-05-19 01:31
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc forecast second-quarter revenue above expectations, as businesses reopen in the world's second-largest economy after strict lockdowns to curb the spread of t… Read More
2020-05-19 01:24
Since September 2019, investors have pumped at least $6 billion into more than two dozen start-ups that are automating delivery of goods and food, from heavy trucks to sidewalk robots and d… Read More
2020-05-18 10:40
Huawei Technologies in its first official response to the Trump administration's move to curb its access to global chip supplies called it "arbitrary" and said its business would be impacte… Read More
2020-05-18 10:30
Since the coronavirus reached Senegal, a growing number of residents in the capital have begun ordering groceries online, a welcome boost to a fledgling delivery service in a country where… Read More
2020-05-18 10:24
Japan's SoftBank reported a stunning $18 billion loss at its giant Vision Fund, pushing Masayoshi Son's conglomerate to a record loss and highlighting the deepening crisis at its portfolio… Read More
2020-05-18 05:01
SoftBank Group Corp have stated that Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma will resign from its board, in the latest departure by a high-profile ally of CEO Masayoshi Son.
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Alibaba co… Read More
2020-05-18 04:38
India's antitrust watchdog is looking into allegations that Facebook's WhatsApp is abusing its dominant position by offering payment services to its vast base of messaging app users in the… Read More
2020-05-18 02:58
The Trump administration has moved to block global chip supplies to blacklisted telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, spurring fears of Chinese retaliation and hammering shares of U… Read More
2020-05-18 02:46
Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in… Read More
2020-05-18 02:37
A group of state attorneys general led by Texas are likely to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google and are working on potential litigation for later this year, a person familiar with th… Read More
2020-05-18 02:26
A bipartisan group of 32 US senators has urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a decision to allow Ligado Networks to deploy a low-power nationwide mobile broadband netw… Read More
2020-05-18 01:55
Apple will this week reopen more than 25 of its branded stores in the US, the company has said, continuing a gradual process that has unlocked doors at nearly a fifth of its worldwide retai… Read More
2020-05-18 01:52
Big technology companies that are reaping gains as result of increased reliance on online systems during coronavirus quarantines and lockdowns should work to increase access to the digital… Read More
2020-05-18 01:38
Reliance Industries have announced US fund General Atlantic will invest 65.98 billion rupees (approximately $870 million) in Jio Platforms, a fourth deal that takes investment in its digita… Read More
2020-05-18 01:17
Amazon.com Inc has it would make an "appropriate" executive available to the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to testify about allegations related to how the company uses thi… Read More
2020-05-18 00:52
Amazon said on Friday it aims to gradually reopen its French warehouses from the 19th of May (Tuesday) as it finalises an agreement with unions and work councils to end a dispute over coron… Read More
2020-05-18 00:22
Senator Amy Klobuchar has blasted merger talks between ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies and online food delivery company Grubhub, calling any deal bad for the competitive landscape and b… Read More
2020-05-16 01:27
It’s great to have big dreams, but if you try and push your business too much before it is ready then you may end up putting yourself at risk. If you want to get around this, then you… Read More
2020-05-15 06:32
After 600 years of painstakingly slow evolution, the UK's parliament took a leap into the future when the coronavirus pandemic struck, transforming its deeply traditional debating chamber i… Read More
2020-05-15 06:18
Amazon Prime Video, Amazon's streaming service, said it will screen several new Indian films that were originally meant for theatrical release on its platform, starting later this month.&nb&helli…Read More
2020-05-15 06:10
The We Company, owner of WeWork, has said that for the first time quarterly revenue surpassed $1 billion and cash burn improved 60% sequentially, but the money-losing shared office operator… Read More
2020-05-15 05:17
The United States Senate comfortably has approved a 2-1/2-year extension of parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), two months after the divisive provisions allowing gove… Read More
2020-05-15 03:35
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, which is a major supplier to Apple Inc, has announced it will build a $12 billion chip factory in Arizona, in what the company called a "strong partne… Read More
2020-05-15 03:27
Amazon Inc's video game live-streaming platform Twitch is forming an advisory council of experienced users, online safety experts and anti-bullying advocates to help improve safety on the s… Read More
2020-05-15 03:22
Facebook and a group of African and global telecom majors have struck a deal to build one of the world's largest sub-sea cable networks, boosting internet availability across three continen… Read More
2020-05-15 03:14
Nvidia Corp, whose semiconductors power data centres, autonomous cars and robots, has said it plans to enter the market for technology that helps cars with automated lane-keeping, cruise co… Read More
2020-05-15 03:06
Zoom has announced that it has plans to hire 500 software engineers for research and development locations in Phoenix and Pittsburgh over the next two years, expanding its engineering workf… Read More
2020-05-15 02:57
Semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia Corp has announced a new chip that can be digitally split up to run several different programs on one physical chip, a first for the company that matches a… Read More
2020-05-15 02:43
Wix.com, which helps small businesses build and operate websites, expects a strong second quarter as companies rush online amid lockdowns to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, it has said.&nb&helli…Read More
2020-05-15 02:22
Epic Games' digital video game store went down as it recorded huge traffic after reports that it was giving the premium edition of "Grand Theft Auto V" for free.
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Rumours e… Read More
2020-05-14 09:18
India is aggressively pushing a state-backed contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID-19, raising fears that the world's second-most populous nation is on its way to Chinese-style m… Read More
2020-05-14 09:02
Uber Technologies has said it will require drivers, delivery workers and riders globally to wear a mask as countries around the world begin easing restrictions aimed at curbing the spread o… Read More
2020-05-14 08:54
A group of privacy advocacy organisations is filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the popular app TikTok violated a consent decree and a law protecting childre… Read More
2020-05-14 08:46
High demand for video games during coronavirus lockdowns buoyed Tencent Holdings' first-quarter revenue and profits, with blockbuster games PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile and Honor of… Read More
2020-05-14 08:36
E-commerce titan Amazon.com, criticised for not acting quickly enough to curb sellers who charged hundreds of dollars for high-demand hand sanitiser during the early phase of the new corona… Read More
2020-05-14 07:27
Cisco Systems beat quarterly revenue and profit estimates on Wednesday as coronavirus lockdowns globally boosted demand for its remote-work tools and networking equipment, sending the Dow c… Read More
2020-05-14 07:20
US President Donald Trump has extended for another year an executive order signed back in May of 2019 declaring a national emergency and barring US companies from using telecommunications e… Read More
2020-05-14 07:12
Social networks and content providers will have to remove paedophile and terrorism-related content from their platforms within the hour or face a fine of up to 4% of their global revenue un… Read More
2020-05-14 07:04
Google's planned $2.1 billion buy of fitness trackers company Fitbit may harm consumers and hinder innovation, European consumer group BEUC has said, calling it a game-changer deal in the h… Read More
2020-05-14 06:55
China-linked hackers are breaking into American organisations carrying out research into COVID-19, US officials said, warning both scientists and public health officials to be on the lookou… Read More
2020-05-13 09:31
Intel Capital, the venture arm of chipmaker Intel Corp, has invested in two Chinese start-ups in the semiconductor sector, the company has announced, as part of its latest batch of deals.&n&helli…Read More
2020-05-13 09:16
Twitter has become the first major tech company to allow employees who can work remotely to do so indefinitely, as the coronavirus outbreak forces unprecedented changes in work culture acro… Read More
2020-05-13 09:05
Sony Corp has reported a 57% drop in fourth-quarter operating profit and refrained from providing an outlook for the current year due to uncertainty related to the coronavirus outbreak.&nbs&helli…Read More
2020-05-13 08:42
Facebook has reported a sharp increase in the number of posts it removed for promoting hate speech, or violence across its apps, which it attributed to improvements for automatically identi… Read More
2020-05-13 08:31
Launched amid the mounting scare over the COVID-19, a Japanese video chat website designed for hosting virtual drinking parties has soared in popularity while bars and pubs remain closed un… Read More
2020-05-13 07:45
With his Olympics preparations in tatters, Japanese fencer Ryo Miyake has begun delivering food for Uber Eats as a way to keep up his fitness and bring in a little extra cash during the enf… Read More
2020-05-13 06:17
Colombia's commerce regulator said on Tuesday it would look into whether Chinese-owned social media app TikTok complies with laws on the collection and treatment of children's and adolescen… Read More
2020-05-13 02:31
Uber Technologies is in negotiations to buy online food delivery company Grubhub Inc in an all-stock deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Uber Technologies… Read More
2020-05-13 02:17
A group of 13 US attorneys general's have asked Amazon.com to provide data on coronavirus-related deaths and infections among its workforce, along with evidence of the company's compliance… Read More
2020-05-13 02:06
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, have stated that it has raised an additional $750 million in its first external investment round, bringing the total funding to $3 billion. … Read More
2020-05-12 08:58
Bitcoin slid in volatile trading, after it went through a technical adjustment that reduced the rate at which new coins are created, but the outlook remained upbeat as the increase in supply… Read More
2020-05-12 08:53
Tencent Music Entertainment narrowly missed market estimates for quarterly revenue on Monday as the COVID-19 crisis hurt the company's social entertainment services business, sending its sha… Read More
2020-05-12 07:38
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons indicated on Monday that the agency was looking at privacy complaints regarding Zoom Video Communications. KEY POINTSFTC has indicated th… Read More
2020-05-12 07:22
Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile phone operator, met expectations with a 2.6% rise in full-year core earnings to 14.9 billion euros (approximately $16.10 billion), but did not giv… Read More
2020-05-12 03:22
A special committee of WeWork board members filed a motion in Delaware to prevent it from being disbanded, as it pursues legal action against majority owner SoftBank Group over an abandoned… Read More
2020-05-11 23:56
Sony has suspended its PlayStation Store in China saying it wanted to improve the online store's security, in a move that will temporarily prevent it from selling games in the world's larges… Read More
2020-05-11 23:41
South African mobile operator Vodacom Group reported an 8.9% rise in annual earnings on Monday and postponed issuing medium-term forecasts due to the uncertain economic outlook as the effect… Read More
2020-05-11 23:35
Twitter will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19, the company has said, as part of a new approach to misinformation that wil… Read More
2020-05-11 21:01
Over the past few years, there have been a number of significant new trends in the construction industry. New platforms and software solutions, often from startups in the form of Augmented R… Read More
2020-05-11 11:41
SoftBank Corp forecast operating profit for the current financial year at 920 billion yen (approximately $8.6 billion), largely unchanged from a year earlier, as it continues to generate cas… Read More
2020-05-10 22:00
The European Union should strengthen a voluntary pledge, to which Facebook, Google and Twitter signed up to combat fake news, with sanctions to make it a more effective tool, a study done fo… Read More
2020-05-10 21:39
Tech giants such as Facebook and Amazon could face tougher rules as EU regulators seek evidence to curb their role as gatekeepers to the internet and access to people, information and servic… Read More
2020-05-10 20:47
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) plans to launch a smartphone app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to as… Read More
2020-05-10 16:59
Bitcoin is about to undergo a scheduled technical adjustment as the number of new coins awarded to miner of the cryptocurrency will be cut in half, but forecasting which way its price will m… Read More
2020-05-10 12:48
US President Donald Trump's administration is in talks with semiconductor companies about building chip factories in the United States, the Wall Street Journal has reported. KEY POINTST… Read More
2020-05-10 03:01
More are eyeing a share of Reliance Industries Ltd's $65-billion digital unit Jio Platforms, according to Bloomberg News, setting them up to be a part of a growing list of organisations that… Read More
2020-05-08 09:05
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs has pulled the plug on its Toronto "smart city" project, citing "unprecedented economic uncertainty" in a setback for the city's long-planned waterfront revitalisati… Read More
2020-05-08 08:52
The runaway success of Nintendo Co Ltd's island life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons has overshadowed an uncomfortable fact for fans of the Switch console - it lacks upcoming titles… Read More
2020-05-08 08:47
YouTube and Facebook have said that they were removing a video that made medically unsubstantiated claims relating to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The 26-minute video dubbed "Pland… Read More
2020-05-08 08:44
Lyft will require both passengers and drivers to wear masks and complete a health certification program, including confirming before each ride that they are not displaying symptoms associate… Read More
2020-05-08 08:40
Uber's ride service bookings slowly recovered in recent weeks as the company expects a coronavirus-related slowdown will delay the goal of becoming profitable by a matter of quarters, not ye… Read More
2020-05-08 08:13
Russia's GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many Emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel's constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany's parliament, Der Spie… Read More
2020-05-07 06:31
A group of Senate Republicans is urging US President Donald Trump to avoid hurting American chipmakers, which they see as essential to the coronavirus response and the US economy, as the adm… Read More
2020-05-07 06:26
Libra Association, the entity managing the Facebook Inc-led effort to build global digital currency Libra has appointed Stuart Levey as its first CEO. Levey is currently serving as Chie… Read More
2020-05-07 06:20
The US Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a new rule that would allow American companies to work with Huawei Technologies on setting standards for next gen 5G networks, people… Read More
2020-05-07 06:13
Zoom has named former White House National Security Adviser HR McMaster to its board and hired the policy chief of one of the tech world's big lobby groups to drive governmental relations as… Read More
2020-05-07 06:09
Alibaba Group has launched a new luxury platform targeting younger consumers that also aims to help high-end brands shed excess inventory built up during the global coronavirus lockdown.&nbs&hell…Read More
2020-05-07 06:03
Uber will cut about 3,700 full-time jobs and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will forgo his base salary for the remainder of the year, the company said, as the coronavirus pandemic decimates ride-hail… Read More
2020-05-07 02:32
Facebook has named the first members of its independent oversight board, which will be able to overturn the company's decisions on individual pieces of content and recommend policy changes… Read More
2020-05-06 11:00
Twitter will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using "offensive or hurtful language," in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform, the company ha… Read More
2020-05-06 09:56
Iran's state broadcaster has used hundreds of fake social media accounts to covertly spread pro-Iranian messaging online since at least 2011, targeting voters in countries including the UK a… Read More
2020-05-06 09:50
Millions of people stuck indoors turned to video games such as Activision Blizzard Inc's "Call of Duty" to shake off lockdown boredom in the past two months, encouraging the company to raise… Read More
2020-05-06 09:34
Pinterest Inc has said advertisers were slowing spending on the image sharing company due to the coronavirus pandemic and reported a bigger-than-expected first-quarter loss as costs surged f… Read More
2020-05-06 07:52
Fox News Media, a unit of Fox Corp, said on Tuesday it has partnered with digital streaming services company Spotify Technology SA to distribute its podcast catalogue featuring more than 20… Read More
2020-05-05 05:54
The UK will start testing its own coronavirus tracing app on the Isle of Wight from Tuesday, hoping that the technology in combination with more testing and tracking will help limit transmis… Read More
2020-05-05 05:45
Apple and Google have said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The two co… Read More
2020-05-04 23:39
If you are starting or managing a business at the moment, you might be having a tough time. Despite common perceptions, the same is true for businesses large and small across the platform ec… Read More
2020-05-04 14:14
Mobile operator Vodacom Group has said it had switched on Africa's first 5G mobile network across three cities in South Africa, with further roll-outs planned in other parts of the country… Read More
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