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Zuckerberg sees Facebook future in private, small-scale messaging

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

Zuckerberg's announcement signals a strategic shift for Facebook as it seeks to navigate a drawn-out crisis over privacy and data protection, fueled by revelati...

Democrats unveil bill to restore US 'net neutrality'

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

The bill, if adopted, would nullify regulations adopted in 2017 and restore the framework created in 2015, in the latest back-and-forth over the contentious int...

'Sharing economy' goes mainstream as IPOs loom

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

These multibillion-dollar online platforms have already been a disruptive force in many economic segment, and analysts say the public listings may be a watershe...

30 years later, Berners-Lee sees mission to fix internet's ills

Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)

Berners-Lee, credited with creating the web in 1989, told a Washington Post event he is committed to working on solutions to rampant problems plaguing the onlin...

Tencent tightens game curbs for China minors

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

Tencent said it had imposed a digital lock on some games that requires players under 13 years to ask their guardians to open. The new restriction will be pilote...

Business leaders, lawmakers to Amazon: please come back to NY

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

In an open letter to appear in Friday's edition of The New York Times, the 80-odd signatories -- from bank CEOs to church leaders and the head of US airline Jet...

New York probing Facebook on data from apps: source

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

Facebook meanwhile confirmed it had received a letter from New York state's Department of Financial Services seeking information about the data sharing. The reg...

Forsway announces hybrid satellite broadband solutions to connect MEASA

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

Forsway Xtend is a complete ecosystem that combines satellite with terrestrial networks enabling service providers to tap unused bandwidth. Operators can rapidl...

Facebook says 'clear history' feature ready this year

Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)

David Wehner, Facebook's chief financial officer, said in comments Tuesday at a Morgan Stanley technology conference that the company is planning to roll out th...

TikTok app fined in US for illegally gathering children's data

Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)

The Federal Trade Commission said the penalty by the social network, which had been known as Musical.ly, was the largest ever in a children's privacy investigat...

New US antitrust task force could unwind tech mergers

Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)

The Federal Trade Commission announcement comes amid increasing concerns in the US and elsewhere about dominant tech platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amaz...

Mobile tech is going to the dogs... literally

Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)

Relax. Mobile entrepreneurs are jumping into the pet industry with smartphone-enabled gadgets that can help care for your four-legged friends, from activity tra...

5G is coming: what can we expect?

Feb 25, 2019 (AFP)

The successor to the current 4G network technology introduced commercially in 2009 promises nearly instantaneous transfers of huge amounts of data that will lik...

Baidu profit falls but revenue beats expectations

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

The Beijing-based, Nasdaq-listed company said late Thursday its fourth-quarter profit came in at 2.08 billion yuan ($303 million) in the October-December period...

Consumer groups protest being left out of Senate privacy hearing

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, a Republican, announced the witness list for Wednesday's hearing on "policy principles for a federal data priva...

Samsung launches folding smartphone, first 5G handset

Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)

The South Korean giant also appeared to get the jump on rivals by announcing the first smartphone for fifth-generation -- or 5G -- wireless networks, while step...

Trump says US firms 'must step up' on 5G, mum on Huawei

Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)

The comments made on Twitter left unclear whether Trump intended to bar Chinese firms from 5G networks in the United States, which has been reported by several ...

Pinterest files confidentially for stock listing: report

Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)

The report said San Francisco-based Pinterest would seek a valuation of at least $12 billion, joining the ranks of richly valued venture-backed tech firms hitti...

Samsung launches folding smartphone

Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)

The South Korean giant's Galaxy Fold, unveiled at a San Francisco event, serves as a smartphone with a 4.6-inch display and unfolds to become a tablet of 7.3 in...

App-based delivery men highlight India's growing gig economy

Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)

The 26-year-old is one of hundreds of thousands of young Indians who, armed with their smartphones and motorcycles, courier dinners to offices and homes ordered...