Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee confronted Sunday Amazon’s lead executives in a letter accusing them of misleading the Congress and potentially lying about the e-commerce giant’s business habits. The letter, signed by five Committee members, is taking into consideration “whether a referral of this matter to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation […]
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Spotify’s rising success drives it to explore new horizons with generating ads on podcast for higher revenues, as Britain’s watchdogs direct their attention towards Europe’s streaming platforms, Reuters reports. “We are increasing our ads business marketing workforce by over 70 percent in Europe, Australia, and Canada … and that’s off a pretty sizable base,” Spotify’s head of […]
Famous gaming platform Epic Games plans to open its doors to blockchain-based payments on its store, following its rival’s announcement to ban blockchain technology and NFT assets on its platform, The Verge reports. Epic is considering the implementation of cryptocurrency technology into its platform, in addition to blockchain-based assets on its game store. The multinational gaming company […]
Facebook announced Thursday deployment news of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android devices. For years, the social networking company provided end-to-end encryption to its messaging platforms. However, with its last encrypted edition, users can obtain a mirrored level of security coding with the devices’ backup. The recently added feature will be slowly […]
On Thursday, a bipartisan entity of senators revealed plans to welcome a nondiscrimination bill as pressure rises on the U.S. Senate to legislate a new set of laws prohibiting tech platforms from preferencing the company’s commodities and services over their rivals. After months of negotiations and hearings, the Senate has finally spoken, and its latest […]
Microsoft is shutting down its main LinkedIn service in China later this year as Beijing tightens its internet rules. The company said in a blog post Thursday it has faced a “significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.” Microsoft is the latest American tech giant to lessen its ties to the […]
The Chinese tech crackdown to reign in the industry’s firms has reached a new frontier, U.S. Big Tech. As China ups its regulatory game on tech firms, American sweetheart, Apple, has always managed to avoid being caught in the crossfire by striving to preserve a sharp image with Chinese authorities. With President Xi Jinping launching […]
Google, device manufacturers, and third-party apps could be probing deeper into users’ on-device habits by creating a tailing road to survey their every interaction through Android’s apps OS, a Trinity College’s study revealed. Data breaches and password leaks have taken the world by a swoop the minute a global conceptualization broke out that no one […]
The family of a slain journalist is asking the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Facebook for failing to remove online footage of her shooting death. Andy Parker said Tuesday the company is violating its own terms of service in hosting videos on Facebook and its sibling service Instagram that glorify violence. His daughter, […]
The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually. Researchers at one of Switzerland’s top universities are releasing open-source beta software on Tuesday that allows for virtual visits through the cosmos including up to the International Space Station, past the Moon, Saturn or exoplanets, over galaxies and well beyond. The program […]