The pandemic’s effect on the global app market has not been hard to miss. In the first quarter and first half of this year, consumer spending in mobile apps hit new records at $32 billion and $64.9 billion, respectively.
In Africa, it c…
WhatsApp is working on a setting that will let users more easily bypass its iffy image compression and send photos and videos in the highest available fidelity. The “best quality” option will likely join “auto” and “data saver” choices in …
Twitter has appointed a resident grievance officer in India days after the American social media firm said to have lost the liability protection on user-generated content in the South Asian nation over non-compliance with local IT rules.
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Facebook has been accused of multiple breaches of European Union consumer protection law as a result of its attempts to force WhatsApp users to accept controversial changes to the messaging platforms’ terms of use — such as threatening use…
The free and open internet is under attack in countries around the world, Google boss Sundar Pichai has warned.
He says many countries are restricting the flow of information, and the model is often taken for granted.
In an in-depth …
A sealed copy of video game Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for more than $1.5m (£1.1m), shattering records.
The 1996 cartridge was a launch title for the Nintendo 64 console, and was one of the most influential early 3D platformers.…
Nokia today announced that it has signed a deal to deploy its comprehensive network technologies to Angola's new mobile telecommunications operator, Africell, to provide 2G, 3G and 4G services in the capital city Luanda. This deal signific…
With their newly launched flagship, PHANTOM X, TECNO’s (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) premium flagship smartphone reshapes the future landscape of design in smartphones with inspiring imagination.
TECNO PHANTOM is specially created for exceptio…
The pandemic has been a time for a lot of reflection on both a personal and business level. Tech companies in particular are assessing whether they will ever again return to a full-time, in-office approach. Some are considering a hybrid ap…
We’ve been hearing about BMW’s electric city scooters, not to be confused with electric kick scooters, for years. The German automaker came out with the BMW Motorrad Concept Link in 2017, a concept vehicle that imagines the future of expen…
5G technology has generated a lot of hype for its potential to power driverless cars using a remote operator, but for the past few years that’s all it’s been — hype. Las Vegas-based startup Halo and telecom giant T-Mobile are teaming up to…
The narrative suggests that Germany is lagging behind its European neighbors when it comes to building a globally competitive venture capital market. But I think that the next five years will be huge for the German venture capital sector, …
Decades after burnishing his reputation as a wealthy daredevil mogul in a series of boating and hot-air balloon expeditions, Richard Branson is poised to promote his burgeoning astro-tourism venture by launching himself to the final fronti…
As environmental issues really came of age in the 1990s, certain German automakers were meeting in secret groups to make sure their cars would continue to industriously contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European Unio…
Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) first-half operating profit is expected to reach around 11 billion euros ($13 billion), it said on Friday, topping pre-pandemic levels on strong demand in Europe and the United States, particularly for Porsches and…
A car that has been designed to strip the air of pollution as it drives along has been shown off at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Created by British designer Thomas Heatherwick, it is hoped the Airo will go into production in China in…
Short-video sharing app TikTok said on Friday it will use more automation to remove videos from its platform that violate its community guidelines.
At present, videos uploaded to the platform go through technology tools that work to rec…
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A new pilot program from TikTok would inject a little LinkedIn into the youthful video-based social network.
TikTok announced that, starting today, it will invite users to submit video resumes to participating companies, including Targe…
A group of 37 attorneys general filed a second major multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google Wednesday, accusing the company of abusing its market power to stifle competitors and forcing consumers into in-app payments that grant the c…
Microsoft has issued a fix for a critical bug dubbed PrintNightmare.
It says hackers are using the bug, accidentally disclosed by researchers.
It can help them "install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts w…
A recent crackdown on LGBT accounts on Tencent's popular WeChat platform has divided Chinese social media.
Dozens of such accounts, mostly run by university students, had been deleted on Tuesday night - sparking fears of a tightening co…
Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship.
The class action lawsuit also targets the three companies' CEOs.
Mr Trump was suspen…
Twitter today has shared a few more ideas it’s thinking about in terms of new features around conversation health and privacy. This includes a one-stop “privacy check-in” feature that would introduce Twitter’s newer conversation controls o…
Nintendo has unveiled its long-rumoured upgrade to the Switch, with a new model featuring a larger, better screen.
The Switch OLED Model's main feature is its OLED screen - a technology which offers deeper blacks and better colours than…
The Pentagon is scrapping a multibillion dollar cloud computing contract, which sparked a row between Microsoft and Amazon.
The US Department of Defense said the $10bn contract no longer met its current needs due to the "shifting techno…
Tech giant Samsung Electronics has said it expects its quarterly profit to rise by 53% amid a global chip shortage.
The world's biggest memory-chip and smartphone maker forecast operating profit of $11bn (£8bn) for the three months to t…
In Geneva last month, US President Joe Biden tried to set some ground rules for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
He said cyber attacks on critical infrastructure were "off limits".
"I looked at him and said how would you feel…
The OnePlus’ latest flagship phones are marked down at several retailers, as spotted by Android Police, bringing the normally $729 OnePlus 9 down to $649 and the OnePlus 9 Pro (usually $1069) to $969. We think that the more basic 9 is alre…
Microsoft’s dysfunctional app store for Windows, the Microsoft Store, is finally improving under Windows 11. While there’s a UI overhaul and some speed improvements, the key change is allowing more apps into the store. In just the past wee…
Fittingly, we don’t know a lot about Nothing. The young hardware startup has, however, done a stellar job building hype around precisely that fact. In the lead up to the July 27 launch of the company’s first product, the Ear (1), the Nothi…
Pine Labs said on Tuesday it has closed a $600 million financing round as the Asian merchant commerce platform sets the goal to explore the public markets within two years.
Fidelity Management & Research Company, BlackRock, Ishana, as w…
Twitter no longer enjoys the liability protection against user-generated content in India, the government said in a court filing this week as tension escalates between the two over the South Asian nation’s new IT rules.
In a court filin…
Today, Opera (Opera.com) has announced the launch of its dedicated chat service Hype, built into the Opera Mini mobile web browser, in Nigeria. With the introduction of Hype, Opera is redefining the concept of mobile browsers, providing us…
TECNO's (TECNO-mobile.com) release of its premium flagship PHANTOM X hitting the mid-to-high-end brought no small disturbance. It is not only a major move for TECNO, but also a positive signal for the industry – mid-to-high-end smartphone …
China's biggest ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has warned there will be an adverse impact on its revenues after its app was removed from Chinese stores.
China's internet regulator ordered app stores to stop offering Didi's app on Sun…
Microsoft is warning Windows users about an unpatched critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service. The vulnerability, dubbed PrintNightmare, was uncovered earlier this week after security researchers accidentally published a proof-o…
Earlier this year, I did something weird: I bought an iPod 5th generation, originally manufactured back in 2006. I got it mostly as a fun thing to mod, but I’ve actually been using it on a near-daily basis. The experience has brought me to…
The gang behind a "colossal" ransomware attack has demanded $70m (£50.5m) paid in Bitcoin in return for a "universal decryptor" that it says will unlock the files of all victims.
The REvil group claims its malware, which initially targe…
In 2004, Jeff Bezos and his technical adviser Colin Bryar drove together to the city of Tacoma, an hour south of Seattle in Washington State.
At that time Amazon was a multi-billion dollar company. However they were headed to Amazon's c…
The next big software update for Apple TV will arrive with tvOS 15. While it won’t become widely available until later this year, users who are part of Apple’s public beta program can now take it for a spin ahead of time. It’s possible and…
Google is making it possible to store digital versions of either COVID-19 test results or vaccination cards on users’ Android devices. The company on Wednesday announced it’s updating its Passes API, which will give developers at healthcar…
Twitter has a history of sharing feature and design ideas it’s considering at very early stages of development. Earlier this month, for example, it showed off concepts around a potential “unmention” feature that would let users untag thems…
Pinterest said Thursday it is updating its ad policies to “prohibit all ads with weight loss language and imagery.” The company said in a blog post that it developed its new policy with guidance from the National Eating Disorders Associati…
Barracuda Networks has purchased Skout Cybersecurity, a New York-based channel-only provider of extended detection and response (XDR) services.
The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, will see the California-based cybersecurity…
Twitter is considering changes to the way it contextualizes misleading tweets that the company doesn’t believe are dangerous enough to be removed from the platform outright.
The company announced the test in a tweet Thursday with an ima…
Swedish gaming giant Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired Indian startup PlaySimple for at least $360 million, the two firms said Friday.
MTG said it will pay 77% of the acquisition sum to Indian game developer and publisher in cash an…
Luxury sports carmaker Porsche AG must recall 43,000 of its electric Taycan cars over faulty software that can cause the battery-powered engine to suddenly shut down, it said on Friday.
The recall affects all Taycan vehicles produced an…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) on Friday posted record vehicle deliveries for the second quarter that were in line with Wall Street estimates as the electric-car maker coped with a shortage of chips and raw materials.
The numbers showed that strong…
Microsoft’s so-called blue screen of death (BSoD) will turn black in the new Windows 11 operating system, according to those with access to a preview of the software.
The screen appears when users have a problem on their computer, often…
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