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May 06, 2021 (AFP)

PayPal said it made a profit of $1.1 billion in the recently ended quarter, compared with $84 million in the same period last year. "Our strong first quarter re...

Facebook fights influence-for-hire campaigns

May 06, 2021 (AFP)

The campaigns aimed posts or comments at people in Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Mexico, Palestine, Peru, and Ukraine, according to the leading social n...

Facebook's Workplace tool grows as jobs go remote

May 05, 2021 (AFP)

The service, which companies can use as an internal social network to communicate with employees, still trails behind top rivals like Teams which Microsoft says...

From icon to pariah: Trump and social media

May 04, 2021 (AFP)

With the Facebook independent oversight board preparing to review the platform's ban on the former US president, here are some key points about his often turbul...

Scientists turn cellphone into a chemical detector

May 04, 2021 (UPI)

The device could be used for a variety of field applications, like surveying environmental contamination sites, screening for tainted food or diagnosing disease...

Apple, Epic in heated US court clash over app market

May 03, 2021 (AFP)

Epic attorney Katherine Forrest began the case, accusing Apple of turning its online marketplace into a monopoly "walled garden" that lures in developers and us...

Verizon to sell Yahoo, AOL for $5 bn to private equity firm

May 03, 2021 (AFP)

The deal with Apollo Global Management also includes the entire Verizon Media unit, including the advertising tech operations of the two brands. Verizon will re...

Samsung posts 46.3% jump in profit on strong smartphone sales

Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)

Samsung Electronics is the flagship subsidiary of the giant Samsung group, by far the largest of the family-controlled empires known as chaebols that dominate b...

Blockbuster Big Tech earnings reports to culminate with Amazon

Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)

The e-commerce colossus is among the internet giants whose businesses thrived as precautions against Covid-19 led people around the world to go online for work,...

Apple profit doubles in quarter to $23.6 bn

Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)

The California giant said revenue was the best ever for its fiscal second quarter, up 54 percent to $89.6 billion. "This quarter reflects both the enduring ways...

Huawei first-quarter sales drop 16.5% as US sanctions bite

Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)

Huawei has been at the centre of intense US-China trade and technological rivalry in recent years and the Trump administration accused it of potential espionage...

Journalists create their brands in growing 'direct' sales model

Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)

Then in 2019 she joined a wave of writers charging a subscription fee for her weekly newsletter using the Substack platform, moving to the direct-to-consumer mo...

Facebook profit nearly doubles as user ranks grow

Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)

"We had a strong quarter as we helped people stay connected and businesses grow," Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said in an earnings release. Revenue from onlin...

Sony reports record net profit but issues cautious forecast

Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)

But with hope on the horizon for an end to the pandemic as vaccines roll out in many parts of the world, the Japanese firm issued a more cautious forecast for t...

Spotify counters Apple with podcast subscriptions

Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)

The updated podcast platform for the United States, set to expand internationally in coming months, lets podcasters make episodes available only to subscribers....

Google ad surge drives up profits for parent firm Alphabet

Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)

Profit in the first quarter leapt to $17.9 billion from $6.8 billion in the same period a year ago while revenues jumped 34 percent to $55.3 billion, led by gai...

Apple boosts US investment pledge to $430 bn

Apr 26, 2021 (AFP)

The updated plan includes more than $1 billion for a new campus and engineering hub in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Apple also plans to invest ...

Apple moving forward on app privacy, despite pushback

Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)

Apple will begin requiring app makers to tell users what tracking information they want to gather and get permission to do so, displaying what have been referre...

Discord abandons Microsoft acquisition talks: report

Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)

Media reported last month that the social platform, created in 2015, was engaged in discussions about a transaction with the technology giant that would have va...

Smartphone sales surge as consumer upgrades gain momentum: survey

Apr 20, 2021 (AFP)

Strategy Analytics said smartphone makers shipped some 340 million units in the first three months of the year, a 24 percent jump from the same period last year...