Amazon.com Inc may make a rival offer to buy Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, which is in tie-up talks with Walmart Inc, local media reported, as the two U.S. retail giants jostle for dominance in India’s booming online industry.
Amazon…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify next week before a congressional committee over a political consulting firm’s misuse of customer data to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, U.S. lawmakers said on …
In Kenya, which has a large and fast growing population of internet users, there are no specific laws or regulations to protect the privacy of those individuals.
Kenya is not alone in Africa, which as a region has clocked the world’s fa…
Shares in the music streaming firm Spotify will be publicly traded for the first time later on Tuesday when the firm debuts on the New York market.
Spotify's listing, which could value it at $20bn (£14bn), is unconventional: it is not i…
When China closed its local cryptocurrency exchanges late last year, an underground ecosystem of bitcoin “mules” and peer-to-peer platforms sprung up to allow bitcoin trading to thrive, away from regulators’ watchful eyes.
Li, a Canada-…
Mozilla wants its newest internet conquest to be mixed reality. The company has just showed off its first look at “Firefox Reality,” a browser built specifically for headsets. Mozilla has been behind some super important work here alread…
Facebook's chief executive has defended his leadership following criticism from his counterpart at Apple.
Mark Zuckerberg said it was "extremely glib" to suggest that because the public did not pay to use Facebook that the firm did not …
Drone delivery firm Zipline has revealed a new aircraft that it says will let it make up to 500 deliveries every day.
Zipline operates a commercial service delivering blood supplies in Rwanda.
The new drone weighs 20kg (44lb) and can…
Snapchat has today introduced a new group video chat feature, letting users chat with up to 16 of their closest friends. If users need more people in the chat (which, for those of us who have large conference calls, sounds awful!), S…
The scandal over data privacy that is causing a headache for Facebook Inc shows just one aspect of the huge task of preparing the world for e-commerce, the United Nations trade and development agency UNCTAD said on Wednesday.
Facebook h…
Siren, a startup that has develops fabric with embedded microsensors, has unveiled its product, a sock for people with diabetes. Siren also announced a $3.4 million investment from DCM, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.
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Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds.
Details of the changes were announced in a blog.
They follow intense criticism of the firm aft…
As Google builds out its cloud platform, it has been continually taking tools and services it has created in-house for its own team and putting them out in the world for its customers as products. Today, it added a key ingredient for dev…
Huawei's latest smartphone can take photos in near-dark conditions without using its flash or a tripod.
The P20 Pro takes exposures lasting up to six seconds to get enough light.
It then uses artificial intelligence to deliver sharp …
India said on Tuesday it rejected a proposal from Google to roll out its Street View service, which shows panoramic images of roads and other sites.
unior home minister Hansraj Ahir did not give a reason for the decision - though Indian…
Apple Inc on Tuesday kicked off an event in Chicago where it was widely expected to announce a lower-priced iPad aimed at helping it grab more of the U.S. education market.
Tech companies are battling for dominance in U.S. schools with …
More automakers will soon offer vehicles through subscription services. Lexus today announced its upcoming UX crossover would be available through one and Bloomberg published a report today stating BMW is about to announce a subscription…
Uber has been forbidden from resuming self-driving tests in the US state of Arizona.
The car-hailing company had already halted its trial after one of the vehicles involved struck and killed a pedestrian a week ago.
The state's gover…
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to appear before MPs is "astonishing", said the committee chairman who invited him to attend.
Damian Collins, the head a parliamentary inquiry into fake news, urged Mr Zuckerberg to "think ag…
Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are too similar - and need to diversify to survive.
"The streaming services are all charging $9.99 and everyone has the same music," he told the BBC.
"And it's really nice. Y…
Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official mobile application was sending personal user data to a third party without their consent caused a furor on social media in India and drew criticism from the leader of the main…
Facebook Inc said on Monday it would expand its local news push beyond the United States to provide users with more stories from local sources covering their current cities and other cities of interest.
In January, Chief Executive Offic…
Apple wants to introduce new emojis to better represent people with disabilities.
A guide dog, a wheelchair user and prosthetic limbs are just some of the symbols it's suggested.
It said very few of the current emoji options "speak t…
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A cyber-crime mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) has been arrested in Spain.
The individual is alleged to be the head of the organised crime gang that ran the Carbanak and Cobalt malware campaigns that targeted banks.
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Another usage milestone for messaging platform Telegram: It’s announced passing 200M monthly active users “within the last 30 days”.
The platform passed 100M MAUs back in February 2016, when it held a lavish party at the Mobile World…
It’s generally a given that whenever a new technology takes off people rush into the space to build everything under the sun, and eventually natural selection kicks in and only the truly useful remain. For example, chatbots became trendy…
Finnish start-up Varjo has developed a prototype virtual reality (VR) headset that its makers claim gives an image 50 times sharper than most other headsets currently on the market.
When I tested the prototype - looking round the virtua…
Streaming music leader Spotify Technology SA on Tuesday filed for a direct listing of its shares.
In an amended filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company expects shareholders to sell up to 55.7 million ordinar…
When you’re far from Silicon Valley a lot of weird and cool stuff happens. Take Glovo, for example. This super-lean, surprisingly popular delivery app expanded out of Spain into Italy and South America and filled the niche that Seamless …
Dropbox Inc’s shares closed at $28.42, up more than 35 percent in their first day of trading on Friday, as investors rushed to buy into the biggest technology initial public offering in more than a year even as the wider sector languished.…
Nissan is hoping to achieve a target of selling 1 million electrified vehicles across its portfolio by its fiscal 2022, the automaker announced today. The target is part of its overarching strategic mid-term plan leading up to 2022. To b…
For most of human history, prosthetics were extremely crude. Back in Roman times, the general Marcus Sergius had an iron hand made when his own was cut off in battle. He strapped it to his arm while he fought ferocious enemies, including H…
Gun Deals, Beer Trade and Cigar Market are three of the latest communities to be banned by Reddit in a move to distance the social website from transactions of "illicit or strictly controlled" goods.
Drugs, personal information and "pai…
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple could be unveiling a new version of its entry-level iPad at its event next week. The company is holding a press event on March 27 in Chicago. And the only thing that we know is that the ev…
Snapchat may still be getting a lot of heat for their redesign, but the company is continuing to devote resources to build out Snap Map, the map-based feature it introduced last year.
A new feature called Map Explore will let you thu…
Facebook has been hard to miss this week as it struggles to cope with an unfolding scandal over the way data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica got hold of information about 50 million users.
In the wake of the furore, Facebook has promi…
When Cloudflare acquired Neumob, a mobile performance startup last fall, it was a sign that the company wanted to move beyond web performance into helping mobile app developers understand what’s happening at the network level. Today, the…
“Hey Google, send Brian $15 for breakfast today.” Starting today, you can use this command to tell the Google Assistant on your phone to send money to people with Google Pay, the re-branded version of what you may still think of as Andr…
There are two ways to look at Mark Zuckerberg's comments on Wednesday, his first since the Cambridge Analytica crisis unfolded.
They showed either a chief executive getting on top of the situation, and making what sounded like significa…
Police have released two videos showing the moments leading up to a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber car in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday.
In the 14-second video, the autonomous vehicle is seen failing to slow down before hitting E…
Uber is sweetening the pot for its Uber Freight offering aimed at commercial trucking. The company is launching Uber Freight Plus today, a program designed to help alleviate costs around some of the more expensive aspects of owning and …
"It is time. #deletefacebook."
After reports of Cambridge Analytica using Facebook's user information came to light, people across social media have begun to urge others to either #DeleteFacebook or #BoycottFacebook in response.
One …
Allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million Facebook users have reopened the debate about how information on the social network is shared and with whom.
Data is like oil to Facebook - it is what bri…
Apple has unveiled new Apple Watch bands for spring.
Bands include Woven Nylon bands direct from Apple, Nike bands, and Hermès bands. Long story short, there are a bunch of new colors and styles.
The Woven Nylon bands focus…
An academic who created an app which harvested data from 50 million users says he has been made "a scapegoat" for Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
Dr Aleksandr Kogan said he did not know his work for Cambridge Analytica in 2014 violate…
India has taken down the local website of Cambridge Analytica following allegations the company used personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election.
SCL India, a venture between the SCL group in L…
One thousand European towns and cities will each be able to claim 15,000 euros ($18,464) of EU funding this year to set up free WiFi hotspots in parks, squares and public buildings.
The European Commission invited municipalities from ac…
A self-driving vehicle made by Uber has struck and killed a pedestrian. It’s the first such incident and will certainly be scrutinized like no other autonomous vehicle interaction in the past. But on the face of it it’s hard to understand …
Uber said it is suspending self-driving car tests in all North American cities after a fatal accident.
A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed as she crossed the street in Tempe, Arizona.
While self-driving cars have been inv…
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