2019-11-20 22:56
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren along with fellow Senators Richard Blumenthal and Bill Cassidy wrote a letter to Alphabet’s Google on Wednesda… Read More
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2019-11-20 22:52
President Donald Trump was quoted on Wednesday that he was considering whether to exempt Apple Inc from tariffs on Chinese imports. “We are looking at that,” Trump said in answer… Read More
2019-11-20 22:35
Reuters – The Trump administration on Wednesday gave Huawei its second reprieve this week, allowing some suppliers to restart sales to the Chinese telecoms giant after it was placed on… Read More
2019-11-20 22:32
Reuters – A little-used block of spectrum set aside for auto safety should be split to accommodate the rapidly growing number of wireless devices, the chairman of the U.S. telecoms reg… Read More
2019-11-20 22:25
Reuters – Payment processor PayPal said on Wednesday it would buy privately held shopping and rewards platform Honey Science Corp for about $4 billion (£3.10 billion). The deal f… Read More
2019-11-19 23:38
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc uses “aggregated data” from sellers in its third-party marketplace to improve its overall business, the online retailer said in respon… Read More
2019-11-19 23:36
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Four top U.S. tech companies, Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon.com and Apple, responded to questions from a congressional committee by def… Read More
2019-11-19 23:34
(Reuters) – Alibaba will raise up to $12.9 billion in its Hong Kong secondary listing, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The Chinese e-commerce giant has given guid… Read More
2019-11-19 23:32
Reuters – Qualcomm Inc expects global smartphone makers to ship 450 million 5G handsets in 2021 and another 750 million in 2022, the world’s largest supplier of mobile phone chip… Read More
2019-11-19 23:28
Reuters – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday launched Stadia, a cloud-based service that allows users to stream games including “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” and &ld&hell…Read More
2019-11-19 23:25
Reuters – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday its workplace messaging app, Teams, has more than 20 million daily active users, up from 13 million users in July. The software maker offers th… Read More
2019-11-19 23:21
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies has dismissed a new 90-day extension by the Trump administration allowing U.S. firms to continue doing business with the Chinese company as m… Read More
2019-11-19 23:15
Reuters – Business software provider Salesforce.com Inc said on Tuesday it would use artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing unit to improve… Read More
2019-11-19 23:09
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence firm Megvii Technology Ltd plans to seek listing approval on Thursday for a Hong Kong IPO of at least $500 million, people with kn… Read More
2019-11-19 21:47
TORONTO (Reuters) – Details of the technological innovations planned for a futuristic development in Toronto recently provided by Sidewalk Labs are satisfactory to evaluate the project… Read More
2019-11-19 02:36
(Reuters) – The launch of Apple TV+, coupled with Apple Inc’s foray into digital services, could help the company increase its income from advertising by more than five fold to $… Read More
2019-11-19 02:32
BERLIN (Reuters) – Apple said on Friday moves in Germany to force it to open up its Apple Pay mobile payments system to rivals could hurt data protection and the security of financial… Read More
2019-11-19 02:27
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Four Democratic leaders on the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce committee on Monday wrote Alphabet Inc’s Google and Ascension Health de… Read More
2019-11-19 02:24
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Monday issued a new 90-day extension allowing U.S. companies to continue doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd… Read More
2019-11-19 02:19
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has introduced an ad-supported free version of its music streaming service Amazon Music, taking on rival Spotify Technology which has nearl… Read More
2019-11-19 02:15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday that his agency had multiple investigations of tech platforms, in addition to its known probe of Face… Read More
2019-11-19 02:11
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Alibaba will close its order books early to prospective institutional investors as part of its $13.4 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong, according to two peop… Read More
2019-11-19 02:07
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Corp plans to merge internet subsidiary Yahoo Japan with messaging app operator Line Corp to create a $30 billion tech group, as it strives to compete more e… Read More
2019-11-19 02:05
BEIJING (Reuters) – The founder and CEO of TikTok owner ByteDance will focus on adding users of the popular video app in countries outside of its strongest markets, according to an int… Read More
2019-11-19 01:50
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft said on Monday it was updating the privacy provisions of its commercial cloud contracts after European regulators found its deals with European Union ins… Read More
2019-11-19 01:44
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The international police organisation Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex predators… Read More
2019-11-19 01:40
Reuters – TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd is in talks with big music labels – Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music – for global licensing deals to… Read More
2019-11-18 01:56
TOKYO (Reuters) – Almost a fifth of Japanese households use electronic money for small purchases, a survey by a central bank-affilated research institute showed, up from a year ago and… Read More
2019-11-15 06:52
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Personal data reveals a slew of secrets about friends and family so regulators should stop fixating on individual privacy and safeguard society in… Read More
2019-11-15 06:09
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is set to price its first share sale in Hong Kong next week, raising up to $13.4 billion in what will be the largest deal in the… Read More
2019-11-15 03:22
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s internet regulator ordered ByteDance news app Jinri Toutiao to clean up its search engine, saying the search function threw up “slanderous&rdquo&hell…Read More
2019-11-15 03:17
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From tackling diseases to improving transport, technology like data and artificial intelligence has unleashed a wave of opportunities, but those s… Read More
2019-11-15 01:03
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp “cannot be trusted,” U.S. Attorney General William Barr said, labelling the Chinese firms a security threat as he… Read More
2019-11-15 00:52
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it is contesting the Pentagon’s award of an up to $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft Corp, expressing concern th… Read More
2019-11-15 00:46
(Reuters) – The several dozen attorneys general investigating advertising practices at Alphabet Inc’s Google are planning to expand their antitrust probe into the unit’s fl… Read More
2019-11-14 07:36
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Consumers have the power to make companies behave better and look beyond the bottom line, business leaders and activists said on Wednesday, urging… Read More
2019-11-14 07:06
(Reuters) – In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, America’s big tech companies are being challenged on many fronts from across the political spectrum, from antitrust c… Read More
2019-11-14 07:04
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has officially started researching sixth-generation telecoms technology, state media reported on Thursday, a move it described as aiming to promote the lates… Read More
2019-11-14 07:00
NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1 billion acquisition of U… Read More
2019-11-14 06:05
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – British-based digital banking app Revolut is in talks with investors to raise at least $500 million next year to fund a global hiring spree as it expands in marke… Read More
2019-11-14 05:55
(Reuters) – U.S. quantum computing startup IonQ said on Tuesday it raised $55 million in a funding round that was led by venture funds backed by Samsung Electronics and the government… Read More
2019-11-14 04:09
LISBON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Technology firms are hiring more women and narrowing the gender gap, a poll by Europe’s largest technology conference found on Wednesday, bu… Read More
2019-11-14 04:01
(Reuters) – Social media platform Twitter on Monday unveiled its plan for handling deepfake videos and other manipulated media, and called for feedback from the public. In the run-up t… Read More
2019-11-14 03:53
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tech companies should be more transparent about how computer algorithms make decisions that affect people’s lives, the inventor of the World… Read More
2019-11-14 02:57
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank’s Yahoo Japan, one of Japan’s top internet firms, confirmed it is in talks to merge with Line Corp, a $27 billion union that would bring the mess… Read More
2019-11-11 04:20
US platform players Facebook and YouTube have declared that they have removed content that mentioned the potential name of the whistle-blower whose complaint sparked an impeachment probe by… Read More
2019-11-06 00:41
We are a relatively new property, with a ton of CPU and memory intensive functionality. Our functional spec is based around the serving of content, e-commerce transactions and membership man… Read More
2019-10-29 05:34
We have recently moved from the dedicated server hosted in Australia, over to the cloud primarily based in San Francisco. So far so good. Certainly, I am loving how easy it is to manage Digi… Read More
2019-09-20 04:24
This data visualisation details the rates of adoption of a range of new technologies in the US, measured as the percentage of households with access or adoption over time, which in this case… Read More
2019-09-06 02:03
Reports highlight that the Silicon Valley titan has begun testing ‘Google Stadia”, an upcoming game streaming service that requires separate game purchases. The comprehensive sub… Read More
2019-09-05 06:25
According to primary research carried out by the Pew Research Center between the 8th of January and February the 7th 2019, the percentage of US adults using social media platforms is as foll… Read More
2019-08-27 02:49
The table below highlights the results from a survey undertaken by the Content Marketing Institute. As you can immediately see, producers are looking to create better engagement; to understa… Read More
2019-08-26 13:41
The business-to-business invoicing and payments platform company Billie has successfully raised €30 million in Series B funding. Leading the round was Creandum, who were joined by Speed… Read More
2019-08-26 13:36
The Chinese government is to take a series of measures to support the ongoing development of businesses operating within the platform economy. With the aim of leveraging SaaS and Internet-ba… Read More
2019-08-15 05:40
Apple Inc have announced that it is expanding the company’s Security Bounty program. It will now cover the entirety of the Cupertino, California-based company’s ecosystem and wil… Read More
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