Google is planning to buy New York City’s St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus. The announcement Tuesday arrives with the city buffeted by the pandemic and most offices still largely unpopulated. While CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post late last month that Google is […]
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Li Zhanguo’s two children, ages 4 and 8, don’t have their own smartphones, but like millions of other Chinese children, they are no strangers to online gaming. “If my children get their hands on our mobile phones or an iPad, and if we don’t closely monitor their screen time, they can play online games for […]
European police officers recently announced the arrest of 106 cybercriminals accused of working for a number of Italian mafia groups, as well as money laundering over $11 million. Operating from headquarters in Spain’s Canary Islands, the Italian mafia cybercriminals allegedly victimized hundreds of online users by conducting several online schemes, including phishing operations, attacking internal […]
Video game titan Activision Blizzard disclosed on Monday it is once more under the investigative spotlight as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is examining its demeanor concerning workplace sexual harassment environment and various discriminatory issues, according to the Wall Street Journal. The SEC initiated a solidified investigation into the Santa Monica-based company regarding its techniques […]
Twitter said Monday it will pay $809.5 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit alleging that the company misled investors about how much its user base was growing and how much users interacted with its platform. The San Francisco company said the proposed settlement, which must still be signed off by a judge, resolves […]
Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who arguably did more than anyone else to inspire a whole generation of children into a life-long passion for computers and gaming, has died. He was 81. Sinclair, who rose to prominence in the early 1980s with a series of affordable home computers that offered millions their first […]
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has boasted of barging uninvited into a video conference call hosted by his political opponents. An enthusiastic user of social media, Hun Sen said Friday he intruded into the Zoom call to warn his opponents that he and his spies were keeping a close eye on them. The Sept. 9 […]
Chinese watchdogs backed their regulatory scrutiny on their tech sector as they spoke on Tuesday with Wall Street executives disclosing that regulations are meant to enforce tech companies, not crush them. Fang Xinghai, China’s Securities Regulatory Commission Vice Chairman, told the executives that the government’s latest conduct on tech firms was aimed to enhance their regulations, in addition to bolstering national security and data privacy. […]
Facebook is pushing back against claims made by The Wall Street Journal, describing the content of the reports as “deliberate mischaracterizations” and “conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees.” It’s becoming a lot more difficult for people to believe that Facebook is contributing more good than harm, after The Wall Street Journal published […]
Online consumer reviews have become a baseline for interested customers willing to try out a new product, and Amazon seems to know that very well. The retail giant has permanently banned 600 Chinese brands across 3,000 different seller accounts for violating its policy against incentivizing positive reviews for products that were purchased through its platform, […]