Facebook clapped back Saturday against U.S. President Joe Biden’s comments accusing the social networking site of “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation being posted and argued that vaccine acceptance among U.S. users has risen. “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” he said. The social media network considered that the facts tell a different story to the one promoted by the Biden administration. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice […]
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E-commerce titan Amazon payed Facebook an undisclosed fee as part of its latest acquisition, terminating Facebook’s efforts to deliver internet connectivity. Amazon acquiring Facebook’s employees initiates the beginning of its plan to provide internet connectivity from low Earth orbit satellites, The Information reports. Back in April, Facebook’s team was added to Amazon’s 500-person group which […]
Amazon has been legally called out for selling hazardous products to consumers that are mostly defected or missing vital features. Due to this reason, Amazon is facing a lawsuit by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Through a 3-1 vote, the U.S. regulator voted to file the lawsuit on Tuesday. The lawsuit seeks to force Amazon to recollect the products on the website, and to instantly contact consumers who purchased them about taking back the products and […]
An assemblage of China’s biggest tech companies has cooperatively signed on Tuesday an antitrust ‘self-discipline’ agreement with Beijing’s expanding regulatory pressure on Chinese tech firms. E-commerce platform Alibaba Group, Tencent, and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance are amongst 33 Chinese tech companies that have voluntarily signed an agreement of self-discipline amidst Beijing’s regulation rise on Big Tech companies. Some of China’s biggest and most dominant tech […]
EU lawmakers at the European Parliament aims to navigate the debate on tough new rules targeting Facebook, Google, and other big tech companies to secure support to Europeans’ fundamental rights. In December of last year, the European Commission (EC) suggested the Digital Service Act (DSA) that will oblige Big Tech companies to go the extra […]
Netflix has marked its first official attempt in stepping into the gaming industry, as it plans to move beyond the realm of film and television. The American streaming service and production company has enlisted the help of former Vice President of Facebook and Electronic Arts, Mike Verdu, to serve as the new head of game development. The development initially surfaced by Bloomberg News on Wednesday, citing an anonymous inside source […]
Toyota plans to hire more people and invest heavily in its subsidiary Woven Planet to work on mobility technology so the Japanese automaker stays competitive amid the global shift to using artificial intelligence and robotics in everyday driving. “Toyota’s traditional strength in hardware is something we never want to lose. To make safe mobility we […]
Popular MENA-based streaming service Anghami, announced on Wednesday six new telco partnerships and offers across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Anghami currently boasts over 30 partnerships within the first half of 2021. Choucri Khairallah, Anghami’s Vice President of Business Development spoke to the press about the new updates that will transform Anghami as […]
American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX plans to extend its partnership with Indian firms to locally manufacture satellite communication equipment as it gears up to launch its high-speed satellite Starlink in 2022. The meeting was conducted with the global satellite companies including officials from global communications networks OneWeb, Viasat, Hughes, in addition to Department of Space and the Regulatory Authority of India. […]
Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government and couldn’t sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist Party’s control over information. The rules would ban private sector experts who find “zero day,” or previously unknown security weaknesses, and sell the information to police, […]