Britain’s privacy watchdog said it had dropped an investigation into WhatsApp after the messaging service signed an undertaking not to share the personal data of users with its owner Facebook.
The decision by Information Commissioner El…
A little over a month after Facebook updated its advertising policy to include a blanket ban on cryptocurrency, Google is following suit. Shortly after reporting that it had removed 3.2 billion “bad ads” in 2017, the search giant issued…
WhatsApp, the biggest instant messaging platform in India, is set to launch a payment service later this month. The BBC's Devina Gupta reports on how this could affect the country's $400bn (£290bn) mobile wallet market.
WhatsApp is curr…
Facebook has removed the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders.
The social media company said the group had repeatedly violated its community standards.
Earlier this month, Britain First's leader and deputy le…
South by Southwest Interactive is a festival that used to have a reputation as the place to create a buzz for a new social network or product.
Yet these days, SXSW's focus is less about developing apps, and more about developing society…
Lyft made a lot of progress in 2017, helped by strong market expansion within the U.S. and riding some very bad news from its primary rival, Uber. That’s helped it grow revenue to more than $1 billion as measured by GAAP standards for i…
The flying car company led by Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun and backed by Google co-founder Larry Page is breaking cover with a new deal that will see it test its autonomous electric air taxis with the New Zealand government, with the ai…
Finland’s state investment arm has spent about 844 million euros ($1.04 billion) on building a 3.3 percent stake in Nokia (NOKIA.HE), strengthening national influence over the telecom network gear maker.
Nokia ruled the global mobile ph…
Global music streaming provider Spotify is set to launch its services in South Africa on Tuesday, marking its entry into Africa, where there is a rapid uptake of smartphones and improving telecommunications infrastructure.
The Swedish c…
UN investigators have said the use of Facebook played a "determining role" in stirring up hatred against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
One of the team probing allegations of genocide in Myanmar said Facebook had "turned into a beast."
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At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a database of su…
In a way, Essential is something of a pioneer. Before the iPhone X helped the world reluctantly embrace the screen notch, the company proudly displayed one atop its first flagship. Since then, of course, it’s become a feature, not a bug, w…
Stricter regulation, including large fines, is one option to force technology companies to take the issue of hate speech more seriously, the Mayor of London has said.
"We can't assume that tech companies will find the solutions by thems…
BMCE Bank of Africa launches its 4th edition of the African Entrepreneurship Award (AEA) supporting innovative entrepreneurs in Africa
The African Entrepreneurship Award will fund $1 million USD to African entrepreneurs with scalable an…
Comviva and Cassava Fintech have jointly won the GSMA GLOMO award in the Best Mobile Innovation for Women in Emerging Markets? category for the EcoCash Savings Club service powered by Comviva's mobiquity Money platform. The award was pre…
Kaspersky Lab boosts bug bounty program with new reward of $100,000 - in frame of its Global Transparency Initiative
This is a 20-fold increase on existing rewards, and is evidence of the company’s commitment to ensuring the complete in…
If you want your next smartphone to work with all of the wired headphones you may have accumulated over the last decade, the smartphone selection on display at Mobile World Congress suggest two simple strategies: Buy a Samsung, or don’t sp…
The company behind the hit mobile game Angry Birds has closed its London studio, after warning its profits were likely to fall.
Rovio's head of games, Wilhelm Taht, also resigned on Friday, leaving chief executive Kati Levoranta in char…
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi could make its debut in the U.S. as soon as this year, according to its CEO.
Lei Jun, the serial entrepreneur who leads the phone maker, told The Wall Street Journal that the company — which is being link…
There are a growing number of gadgets and apps on the market which aim to help keep women safe from sexual harassment and attack. But are they effective or could they merely reinforce the image of women as victims?
It was five o'clock i…
The European Commission is still considering whether to regulate social media platforms to ensure they promptly remove illegal content — be it terrorist propaganda, child sexual exploitation or hate speech but also commercial scams and eve…
Twitter today is publicly launching its “Bookmarks” feature, which has been in testing since late last year, following the company’s HackWeek project dubbed #SaveForLater. A desire to save content for later reading is something people have…
Twitter has asked for help in devising a "health check" to measure its contribution to public conversation.
It said it hoped to work with "outside experts" and is inviting proposals.
Its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, said the platfor…
A BBC investigation has found that companies in Saudi Arabia are offering to artificially boost the popularity of hashtags to make them trend on Twitter - in contravention of the social media network's rules. The price to get automated "bo…
Uber’s launching a new business line called Uber Health on Thursday that will provide a ride-hailing platform available specifically to healthcare providers, letting clinics, hospitals, rehab centers and more easily assign rides for their …
You know the drill, right? A new flagship comes out and bumps the last big name out of the top spot. We’re still a couple of weeks out from the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ release date, but the premium handset just got the DxOMark treatment, and…
Jaguar has finally fully revealed the official I-PACE all-electric SUV, a vehicle with just under 240 miles of range and a 0 to 60 mph time of under five seconds. The car can also charge to 80 percent from empty in 40 minutes using special…
Toyota Motor Corp said a new venture would be investing more than $2.8 billion to develop automated-driving software - the latest salvo in an increasingly frenetic battle to be ahead in a sector hit by a slew of disruptive technologies.
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Russian propagandists targeted the popular news-sharing website Reddit to influence American political debate, a US website has claimed.
It had been widely presumed that Reddit, a hub for campaigning, activism and often extreme views, w…
Researchers have repurposed existing robotic technology so it is able to create custom wooden furniture, a move they say will greatly improve safety.
The team at the Massachusetts' Institute of Technology (MIT) modified existing technol…
With unlimited high quality photo storage from Google Photos and a carefully curated set of pre-installed apps, the Mara X makes sure African users have enough space for the apps they love
In partnership with Google, Mara Corporation Li…
Riding a wave of new users, improved advertising options and an embrace of video content by users and advertisers alike, Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) revenue has leaped in Japan, helping lead the company to its first quarterly profit.
Earlier…
Amazon.com Inc launched its music-streaming service in India on Wednesday, its latest offering to drive customers to shop more on its flagship e-commerce platform.
Amazon Prime Music will be available at no extra cost to members of Prim…
Amazon has bought a US firm that makes high-tech doorbells in a move expected to help the online retailer improve how it delivers parcels.
Ring makes doorbells that record live videos of customers' doorsteps, then sends the videos to th…
US border control agents have not been using the right software to verify e-passports for more than a decade, two US senators claim.
Oregon senator Ron Wyden and Missouri senator Claire McCaskill have asked US customs officials to start…
A businessman has taken Google to the High Court in London in what is being seen as a landmark case over "the right to be forgotten".
He is challenging Google's decision not to remove a criminal conviction he has from the 1990s from sea…
Lifestyle site Little Things says it has had to close after changes to Facebook's news feed algorithms "decimated" its business.
The closure of the female-focused publishing business will result in the loss of 100 jobs.
The company f…
Katapult Accelerator selected 12 exponential technology startups in their second cohort to join the three-month accelerator programme in Oslo, Norway. The Katapult Accelerator made a selection from 1,500 impact-focused startups from all ov…
Ford Motor Co is taking a different approach from rival General Motors Co in deploying self-driving vehicles, focusing initially on partnering with and operating vehicles for a variety of companies, from Domino’s Pizza to Lyft, executives …
Fitbit Inc’s (FIT.N) shares fell 14 percent in early trading on Tuesday after the company said its newly launched smartwatch was not selling as expected, raising concerns about the company’s ability to become profitable again in the near t…
Vero is the Instagram rival that's topping the App Store.
The ad-free app lets users share photos, add links, and recommend books, movies and TV shows to friends.
It has jumped from 99 to number one in Apple's UK store in the past we…
Google (GOOGL.O) is not obligated to ensure websites are free from defamatory content before displaying links to them in search results, Germany’s highest court ruled on Tuesday.
The case, which comes in the context of debate about the …
The clicky-clacky, full keyboard devices that spring to mind when you hear “BlackBerry” might be a thing of the past… but the brand lives on.
Famed gadget-unearther Evan Blass dug up a picture of an upcoming BlackBerry device said to be…
Mobile data will be used in Ghana to track and control epidemics, helping prevent a repeat of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, in a pioneering program announced by Vodafone Foundation on Monday.
The initiative will use aggregated …
Is smartphone hardware treading water while industrial designers wait for bendy screens and other flexible, futuristic components to make more radical models possible? And will sales continue to decline until they do?
Samsung is casting…
The chief executive of Huawei [HWT.UL] said on Monday the pace of commercialization for next-generation 5G wireless network is picking up as the Chinese telecom equipment maker has begun pre-commercial development with more than 30 network…
Social networks' failure to tackle cyber-bullying is risking the mental health of young people, a Children's Society survey has found.
Almost half of 1,089 11 to 25-year-olds questioned for the Safety Net report had experienced threaten…
New and improved camera capabilities are the main thrust of Samsung's pitch for its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S9 and larger S9+.
The handsets gain a super-slow-motion facility designed to make it easy to extend key moments…
The Xperia XZ2's rumble tech adapts a feature originally developed for the firm's PlayStation controllers.
It also records "super-slow-mo" videos at a higher resolution than Samsung's Galaxy S9.
Sony has, however, pioneered other pho…
Nissan Motor Co is taking its first steps to becoming an operator of autonomous vehicle services, hoping to break into a segment set to be dominated by Uber [UBER.UL] and other technology firms.
While automakers for more than a century …