U.S. President Donald Trump plans to host executives of internet and social media companies at the White House, likely later this month, White House adviser Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday.
Kudlow said Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai …
Britain will unilaterally implement a digital service tax if there is no international agreement soon on how to tax big internet companies, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday, blaming U.S. tax reforms for slow multilateral prog…
During 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack impacted more than 300,000 people across 150 countries in less than two days. In 2018, criminals are evolving their tactics, including launching well-researched, targeted attacks intended to infe…
When you’re ready to start a small business, having some helpful essentials will make the process a bit easier. Whether you need to print your own business cards or you’re ready to process orders on a reliable laptop, we’ve put t…
Medical experts have been told to draw up advice on the maximum amount of time young people should spend on social media, the health secretary has said.
In an interview with the Observer, father-of-three Matt Hancock said he was "very w…
Elon Musk must step down as Tesla chair and pay a fine after reaching a deal with US regulators over tweets he posted about taking the firm private.
It follows Thursday's decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to …
One of China's most popular video games is testing the use of facial recognition to check users' ages.
Honour of Kings' publisher Tencent announced the move at the weekend.
It said the trial would initially be limited to "thousands" …
YouTube is expanding the ways advertisers can connect with their audience, thanks to an expansion to its TrueView in-stream ad format that will now push viewers to take actions when viewing ads beyond just a click. The company was already…
Over the last several months, Dropbox has been undertaking an overhaul of its internal search engine for the first time since 2015. Today, the company announced that the new version, dubbed Nautilus, is ready for the world. The latest se…
The music industry has always been cut-throat, and on-going internet fragmentation only complicates matters. Musicians have to be their own promoters, tour managers, bookers and a million other things just to get off the ground.
If no…
This summer, Microsoft pushed off the inevitable end of Skype Classic (7.0) support after a fair bit of user backlash. Nearly a month after the original September deadline, the company announced today that it’s going to pull the plug in No…
Slowly but surely, Google is expanding its portfolio of travel offerings that now range from hotel- and flight-booking services to trip planning tools. Today, it’s launching yet another set of new travel features that focus on travel pl…
BLOCKDRAW, is the world's most advanced distributed blockchain gambling platform created by industry regulators and insiders, announced the preparation stage and early private sale before the ICO.
Globally the estimated value of …
ZephyrTel Welcomes Vasona to Its Portfolio of Software Solutions Serving the Global Telecommunications Sector
ZephyrTel, an ESW Capital software company dedicated to serving the global telecommunications industry, is pleased to announ…
Easy Visual has launched Banners App - a mobile application that shows targeted banners ads to users when they unlock their smartphones.
Recent Boston Consulting Group research indicates that consumers spend 25% of their total offline a…
-- Introduces “Essence of Toshiba,” a statement of values and guiding principles --
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) has today unveiled a new global brand identity the “Essence of Toshiba,” a restatement of its abiding purpose and value…
Arensis and Schneider Electric Launch Smart Microgrid Partnership and Development of ENTRADE IO Blockchain Technology
Arensis CEO Forms New Entity to Bring Renewable Energy Access to Rural Areas Around the World
Arensis, a leading in…
WIPO and the research-based pharmaceutical industry today launched a new online tool designed to help procurement agencies better understand the global patent status of medicines.
The Patent Information Initiative for Medicines (Pat-INF…
"Panasonic Prime Smash!" Has Been Given a Complete Makeover - An iPhone, iPad Game That Awakens Children's Interest in Mathematics
On August 28, 2018, Panasonic Corporation gave the iPad app, "Panasonic Prime Smash!" a complete makeover…
Prototype Tech Quickly Warns Drivers of Accidents Ahead, Could Help Clear Way for Emergency Vehicles to Save Lives
• Ford and Vodafone are testing connected vehicle tech that can automatically warn other drivers of accidents ahead and s…
This glimpse of the future was crafted by: Ele Ndlovu
Bette Midler was right: from a distance the earth does look very blue and green. It also looks pitch black at night to those in search of the world’s second largest continent – and h…
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] will pay $148 million for failing to disclose a massive data breach in 2016, marking a costly resolution to one of the biggest embarrassments and legal tangles the ride-hailing company has suffered.
The s…
Thousands of drivers for ride-hailing services Uber and Cabify, waving flags and chanting slogans such as “we want to work”, marched down Madrid’s central boulevard on Thursday ahead of plans by the government to tighten regulation.
Dri…
Limiting children's recreational screen use has been linked with improved cognition.
Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found.
Combini…
Facebook has announced Oculus Quest, a virtual reality headset it hopes will rejuvenate the VR industry.
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg said the device would offer the types of VR experiences that previously required a device to be …
Online retailing giant Amazon is opening a store in New York that will only sell products that receive a high rating on its website.
The store will sell toys, household goods and other items that have a rating of four stars or more onli…
Sony is to let gamers on PlayStation consoles play against those using rival devices, the company has announced.
Many games already let those using a PC, Nintendo Switch or Xbox One play together online, but Sony had refused to take par…
The death of a girl hit by a tablet computer in a car accident has raised concerns about the safety of using such devices in moving vehicles.
The three-year-old was killed after her mother's car collided with the back of a school bus in…
The bank of the future is being invented in Africa, and it is more agile and close to its customers
The rise of fintechs might be shaking up the banking sector in developed countries, but African banks are taking full advantage of this …
Nearly 200 years after the birth of photography, the art form is experiencing a technological revolution.
Smartphones are using multiple cameras and software-based smarts to deliver images that seemingly transcend the limits of their sm…
Amazon.com Inc’s Echo smart speakers were back up on Wednesday after facing problems with connectivity in the U.K. and some other European countries, according to outage tracker Downdetector.com.
The website had logged hundreds of repor…
Virtual reality is largely an expensive hobby for Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, but the company hopes that within the decade, it can build out an entire VR empire for the social media giant to conquer.
Later this morning,…
LinkedIn may be best known as a place where people and organizations keep public pages of their professional profiles, using that as a starting point for networking, recruitment and more — a service that today that has racked up more than…
Facebook promised Instagram autonomy, but reduced it over time leading to today’s bombshell revelation. Eight years after launching Instagram and six years after selling it to Facebook, Instagram co-founders CEO Kevin Systrom and CTO …
According to some early numbers from Apple analyst extraordinaire Ming-Chi Kuo, the iPhone Max XS is currently running laps around its smaller counterpart. In a note posted by MacRumors, Kuo suggested that the 6.5-inch handset sold three t…
China has shut down thousands of websites and online accounts following a three-month campaign against "harmful" content, the state news agency Xinhua has announced.
The content, on 4,000 sites, included infringements of copyright and m…
GROHE ONDUS app – the technology’s heart that creates a water profile
Smart Home technology provides protection of and comfort in your home; GROHE (GROHE.com) Sense and GROHE Sense Guard – wireless-enabled water security system; GROHE O…
T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) said Monday it is renaming its prepaid brand to Metro by T-Mobile and adding two new unlimited phone plans that will include perks like Google One cloud storage and Amazon (AMZN.O) Prime, in an effort to remove the…
AWS has its Snowball (and Snowmobile truck), Google Cloud has its data transfer appliance and Microsoft has its Azure Data Box. All of these are physical appliances that allow enterprises to ship lots of data to the cloud by uploading it …
Airbnb wants to give the homeowners who power its service the opportunity to own a piece of its business. That’s why, as Axios reports, the $31-billion-valued company has written to the SEC to ask if its rules around security ownership …
Many new parents would agree: one of the biggest shocks to the system – apart from the enormous responsibility of caring for a new life – is lack of sleep. Consistently poor sleep can put a strain on the strongest of parental partnerships …
Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year.
The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses tha…
It’s been 10 years since Google took the wraps off the G1, the first Android phone. Since that time the OS has grown from buggy, nerdy iPhone alternative to arguably the most popular (or at least populous) computing platform in the world. …
High-speed 5G networks could lead to big changes in how we use our mobile phones, allowing us to enjoy virtual reality on-the-go, interactive live broadcasts, and even project holograms from our handsets. But will connection "not-spots" an…
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi carmaking alliance said on Tuesday it will adopt Alphabet’s Google Android operating system, handing a victory to the U.S. tech giant as it pushes for a bigger share of the infotainment market.
Renault, Nis…
With the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple introduced a new, larger display. It now has rounded edges and thinner bezels. And the company took advantage of that display to introduce new fire, water, liquid metal and vapor faces. Apple didn’t us…
The earliest adopters of Bitcoin — the libertarian anarchist “cypherpunk” crowd — were mostly men. Today, roughly a decade after Satoshi Nakamoto’s famed white paper was released, the majority of cryptocurrency holders are still men.
T…
Does deeper data produce perfect matches? Facebook is finally ready to find out, starting today with a country-wide test in Colombia of its new Dating feature. It’s centered around an algorithm-powered homescreen of Suggested romantic mat…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new Amazon Go cashierless stores in the next few years, Bloomberg reported here on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Shares of U.S. supermarket chai…
Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has launched Taiwan’s first TD-LTE network on the 2.6GHz band using Airspan’s AirUnity, a multi-award-winning innovative all-wireless, plug-and-play, indoor small cell. Thanks to its integrated Backhaul and sophi…
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