Facebook members will find out from 17:00 BST whether they are among the 87 million potential users whose data was shared with Cambridge Analytica.
Every account holder will receive one of two notices informing them whether their data w…
A class-action lawsuit alleging pay discrimination at Google based on gender is moving forward, California Superior Court Judge Mary E. Wiss recently ordered.
The original suit was dismissed in December due to the fact that plaintiff…
Regulatory scrutiny could complicate ride-hailing company Grab’s takeover of Uber Technologies’ Southeast Asian business, but there is little the authorities can do to stop Uber from simply exiting the region, lawyers and analysts said.
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A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was. I joined a round-table discussion with Apple SVPs and a handful of reporters to get the skinny on what was taking so long.
The answer…
Samsung has released primarily guidance for its Q1 2018 financial period and the signs are that it will be another blockbuster.
The Korean tech giant’s sales in 2017 were enough to see it unseat Intel as the world’s largest chipmaker ba…
Facebook has halted plans to collect patient data from hospitals and match it up with its users' information.
The social network confirmed the idea had been discussed but had been "paused" while the company dealt with its privacy crisis…
Google Cloud is launching a new feature today that will give its users a new way to monitor and optimize how their data flows between their servers in the Google Cloud and other Google Services, on-premises deployments and virtually any…
You can’t remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg h…
Amazon just rolled out a long-promised for the Echo. Alexa Announcements turns the company’s smart speaker line into a one-way intercom system, letting owners communicate with the family across a household.
At its base level, it’s kin…
YouTube TV is finding life inside a browser not built by Google.
The live TV service is now running on Firefox after previously being locked down to Chrome. The new development first spotted by YourTechExplained isn’t a massive shock …
South Korean prosecutors searched offices at a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) unit on Friday as part of a probe into allegations the conglomerate had sabotaged workers’ efforts to strengthen labor unions, the prosecutors’ office sa…
It is widely reported that the top five companies in the world have a combined market cap of more than USD3 trillion (R36trln)... and they all have something in common. Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Ama…
The Russian government has started legal proceedings to block the Telegram messaging app in the country.
The Roskomnadzor media regulator is seeking the block because the firm has refused to hand over encryption keys used to scramble me…
Fresh from announcing a deal to buy out Uber in Southeast Asia, Grab looks set to gain further firepower with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba preparing to invest in the ride-hailing firm.
Alibaba is in the early stages of making an in…
Ride-hailing service Uber said on Thursday it would suspend its licensed service in Greece after the approval of local legislation which imposes stricter regulation on the sector.
Uber, which operates a licensed service in the Greek cap…
Italian state lender CDP is set to buy a stake of up to 5 percent in Telecom Italia (TIM), three sources close to the matter said on Thursday, in a move intended to safeguard Rome’s interest in a company seen as strategic.
The decision …
Despite the turmoil that continues to surround his company, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted he is still the best person to lead Facebook.
"When you're building something like Facebook which is unprecedented in the world," he said on Wednes…
An auction of frequencies for the next generation of mobile phone networks has raised £1.36bn, says regulator Ofcom.
Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three all won the bandwidth needed for the future 5G mobile internet services, which are not expec…
Facebook has discovered that "malicious actors" have been harvesting profiles for years by abusing its phone number and email search facility.
It said "most people" could have had their profiles harvested in this way.
The site let pe…
If you’re running a software company today, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that most or all of your apps will run in the cloud. Likely Amazon or Google’s. It’s hard to imagine that this wasn’t always the case, but there are still some l…
Apple Inc’s mobile payment platform Apple Pay arrived in Brazil on Wednesday with an exclusive partnership with Itaú Unibanco Holding SA, the country’s largest private lender.
The bank said Apple Pay will be available during the 90-day …
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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Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent @BBCRoryCJ on Twitter
26 March 2018
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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…