Yesterday, President Donald Trump released an executive order that extended an existing ban on immigrant work visas through the end of the year. The move prohibits immigrants who are outside the United States from applying, but because new…
Toyota Motor Corp holds a $293 million stake in Uber Technologies, as it partners with the ride-hailing company to further expand into new mobility services, Toyota’s latest corporate governance report released on Wednesday showed.
The …
Telecoms operators in Singapore said they had selected Nokia and Ericsson to build infrastructure for new 5G networks.
A joint venture between M1 and Starhub awarded one of the city-state’s licences said they had selected Nokia to build…
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday it had opened an investigation into 63,000 Tesla Model S cars after reports of media-control unit failures that led to the loss of the use of touchscreens.
The…
Wirecard’s missing $2.1 billion is being investigated by the Philippines, which said that the German payments firm’s former chief operating officer Jan Marsalek may be in the country.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesd…
The newly crowned world's fastest supercomputer is being deployed in the fight against the coronavirus.
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer claimed the top spot on Monday, carrying out 2.8 times more calculations per second than an IBM machine…
Instagram announced today it’s expanding access to Instagram Shopping to more businesses, including creators who want to sell their own merchandise. To enable this expansion, the company introduced new “Commerce Eligibility Requirements” t…
Twitter has emailed its business clients to tell them that personal information may have been compromised.
Unbeknownst to users, billing information of some clients was stored in the browser's cache, it said.
In an email to its clien…
A former Google employee was briefly ranked the second richest person in China, following a surge in sales at his e-commerce business, Pinduoduo.
Colin Huang was valued at $45.4bn (£36.4bn) by Forbes, on Sunday, ahead of Alibaba's Jack …
Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing says it plans to operate more than a million self-driving vehicles by 2030.
The robotaxis are to be deployed in places where ride-hailing drivers are less available, according to Meng Xing, Didi’s …
Rwanda is renowned as a pioneer for gender equality
In 2020, it was the only African country ranked in the top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report.
It ranked in the top four in the Report’s political empowerment…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk has said Sept.15 is the tentative date for the company’s shareholder meeting as well as “Battery Day”, at which the electric-car maker is expected to reveal significant advances in battery techn…
TikTok is the latest platform to sign up the European Union’s Code of Practice on disinformation, agreeing to a set of voluntary steps aimed at combating the spread of damaging fakes and falsehoods online.
The short video sharing platfo…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday will hold its annual conference for software developers, rolling out new features in its operating systems for iPhones and iPads and possibly signaling a departure from Intel Corp’s (INTC.O) almost 15-year run …
An International data centre has been granted planning permission from Derry City and Strabane District Council to be established at Foyle Port.
The development, from Atlantic Hub, will host computer data and services equipment for larg…
Another big acquisition out of Israel this week points to how bigger tech companies are using the economic slowdown to focus on their longer-term strategies and shore up assets to support that. Today Microsoft announced that it would be ac…
While the moratorium on large events and gatherings imposed by COVID has wreaked havoc with the multi-million rand events industry in South Africa, 3D, interactive, virtual exhibition software created in the country is cause for hope.
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The mobile gaming industry continues to grow with developers generating revenue in millions of dollars on a daily basis. Data acquired by Finbold.com shows that by June 2020, games on iOS devices generated approximately $13.29 million in d…
On May 18th, a coalition of high-profile digital rights organisations released an open letter asking for answers about government plans to build a sprawling COVID datastore. The proposed datastore would have been a partnership with for-pro…
YouTube today announced a new direct response ad format that will make YouTube video ads more “shoppable” by adding browsable product images underneath the ad to drive traffic directly to brands’ product pages. The introduction of the form…
Open up short-form video app TikTok and you’re met with a stream of popular videos, tailored to your own interests. But when your friend launches TikTok on their own phone, they’ll see something different. TikTok calls this main stream of …
While a French online hate speech law has just been derailed by the country’s top constitutional authority on freedom of expression grounds, Germany is beefing up hate speech rules — passing a provision that will require platforms to send …
Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY – the world’s first all-electric touring car race series returns to the streets of Berlin on 5 August 2020
The German city will see seven eTROPHY races take place throughout a nine-day period including the finale on …
French telecoms operator Orange has been ordered by a Paris court to pay local rival Digicel nearly 250 million euros ($280 million) in compensation for anti-competitive practices in the French Caribbean, the company said on Friday.
The…
Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) will retain control of T-Mobile (TMUS.O) should Japan’s Softbank (9984.T) liquidate its stake, CEO Tim Hoettges said on Friday as he vowed to claim top spot in the U.S. market.
Speaking at the German group’s …
Facebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany.
The company said the offending ad contained an inverted red triangle similar to that used by the Nazi…
Fifa game developer EA Sports promises that the next-generation version of Fifa 21 will feature new technology to make it the most realistic yet.
Next year's entry will release for both existing consoles and the new Xbox Series X and Pl…
Twitter has labelled a video tweeted by US President Donald Trump as having "manipulated media" for the first time.
The video shows a black child running away from a white child while playing, with a fake CNN caption.
The caption rea…
Apple says it did not know the UK was working on a "hybrid" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.
The firm took the unusual step of saying it was also unaware of an issue regarding dista…
Huawei Launches FusionServer Pro V6 Intelligent Server Based on the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor
Today, the Huawei Computing Product Line officially released the latest member to their family – the next-generation FusionServer …
Tech to direct resources where they're needed most
South Africa's COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise rapidly, with about 1000 new incidents a day . Many suggest this is just the start of the exponential curve to come, especially since…
Eligible countries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic can better manage debt relief from international lenders, using the Commonwealth Secretariat’s specialised software.
Managing the impacts of COVID-19
The World Bank and the Interna…
Russia on Thursday lifted a ban on the Telegram messaging app that had failed to stop the widely-used programme operating despite being in force for more than two years.
Some Russian media cast the move as a capitulation, but communicat…
Apple is facing mounting calls to reconsider its App Store rules, from the creators of the apps themselves.
Dozens have used the term "hostile" to describe how they perceive it treats its third-party developer community.
The backlash…
Social media giant TikTok has announced plans to commission hundreds of experts and institutions to produce educational content for the platform.
Universities and charities are among those who will be paid to create bespoke content for …
From the idea that the coronavirus was created in a lab to the belief that it is all part of a plan to bring in compulsory vaccinations, conspiracy theories have been plentiful in recent months.
Now, research indicates that people who g…
Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Thursday that it will offer hands-free driving on its new Mustang Mach-E in fall 2021, six years after Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and four years after General Motors Co (GM.N) introduced similar systems.
The system, …
Beginning today, Facebook users in the U.S. will have the option to “turn off” all political advertising on the platform. The company made the controversial decision not to fact-check or otherwise moderate political ads last year, but the …
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.
The raise caps an event-filled run for the San Francisco-based payments …
Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday said it is putting 5G technology into chips for smartphones that will sell for as little as $300 and that will come to market in the second half of this year.
San Diego-based Qualcomm is the biggest supplier of p…
Facebook on Tuesday removed almost 900 accounts associated with the far-right Proud Boys and American Guard, including those belonging to Proud Boys supporters who marched into a protest zone in Seattle Monday and confronted anti-racist d…
For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows them to track all their suppliers in a way that minimizes risks in operating globally spread supply chains.
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Germany’s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the chief executive of software company SAP said on Wednesday.
Christian Klein said the strong p…
Germany appealed to the public on Tuesday to download a new smartphone app to help break the chain of coronavirus infections, one of several such apps that European governments hope will revive travel and tourism safely.
The Corona-War…
Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests.
The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of Instagram for news had doubled since 2018.
The trend is strongest among young…
Covid-19 has not been a harbinger of doom for Amazon, unlike the case with many other firms.
Its share price has actually increased since March - hitting a record high last week.
It turns out online retail isn't a bad space to be in …
Apple faces two European Commission probes into whether it has broken competition rules.
One investigation centres on iPad and iPhones being limited to installing apps from Apple's own App Store, among other restrictions imposed on thir…
According to data compiled by Atlas VPN, 46% of C-level officers suffered from a spyware attack last year. IT specialists revealed that senior management and C-suite executives are most likely to suffer from a malicious attack within the c…
Patent-pending innovation includes textile fabrics and nonwovens to protect face masks, filtration and apparel
Ascend Performance Materials has introduced Acteev Protect™, a breakthrough technology specially formulated to guard against …
Chinese internet giant ByteDance has announced plans to discontinue two of its apps in India, its biggest overseas market, and urged users to move to TikTok.
Vigo Video and Vigo Lite, two apps that allow users to create and share short-…
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