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Huawei, controversial in the West, is going strong in the Gulf
Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)
Arab Gulf countries -- strategic partners of Washington that are seeking to diversify their economies -- are investing heavily in the sector as their appetite f...
YouTube to roll out parent-approved accounts for tweens
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
An early version of the offering will be released in coming months, letting parents use Google accounts to provide children YouTube access that comes with conte...
Facebook pledges $1 bn for news, defends Australia blackout
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
Nick Clegg, head of global affairs, said in a statement that the company stands ready to support news media while reiterating its concerns over mandated payment...
iPhone 12 sales propel Apple to top of smartphone market: survey
Feb 22, 2021 (AFP)
The report by market tracker Gartner showed Apple sold some 79.9 million iPhones in the final three months of the year -- a 15 percent surge from a year earlier...
Brussels okays EU-UK personal data flows
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
In a key post-Brexit decision, the EU executive said that British authorities had sufficient measures in place to protect European users' personal data, freeing...
Facebook inflated its advertising audiences: lawsuit
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
The social networking giant has been facing a class action lawsuit since 2018. The plaintiffs claim that the platform's managers knew that its so-called "Potent...
Printing perovskites on graphene makes next-gen X-ray detectors
Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)
There has been a lot of progress since. Aside from radiographs, which most people have taken at least once in their lives, today's X-ray medical uses includes f...
Italy fines Facebook 7 mn euros over data protection
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
According to the authority, known as AGCM, the US social media giant fails to properly inform users about how it collects and uses their data for commercial pur...
Amazon to make devices in India for the first time
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
Amazon is locked in a battle for dominance with Walmart-backed Flipkart and Reliance, owned by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, as well as thousands of local ...
Amazon quietly acquires e-commerce rival Selz
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, was made last month and confirmed by Selz in a blog post. US media reported the acquisition on Tuesday. Selz's oper...
Clubhouse: the wildly popular audio chat app
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
Launched less than a year ago, Clubhouse -- which recently encountered a censorship hiccup in China -- is looking to establish itself as the standard-bearer for...
With flexible policy, Salesforce says 9-5 workday is 'dead'
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
Salesforce's new policy released Tuesday gives wide flexibility to employees and follows the lead of other technology firms adapting workplace rules for the pos...
Biden team asks court to pause move to ban TikTok in US
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
The filing in a federal appeals court said the new administration had begun a review and would not for the moment press for a ban of the mobile app as sought by...
Tougher EU privacy rules loom for Messenger, Zoom
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
The EU's 27 member states approved a proposal that was stuck since 2017, with countries split between those wanting strict privacy online and others wanting to ...
Facebook rolls out news feeds with less politics
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
The leading social network said it would begin testing the change "for a small percentage of people" in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the United S...
Kuaishou: China's $160 bn livestreaming app for 'ordinary people'
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
Lu is one of hundreds of millions of users uploading short clips to the app, which propelled its parent company to a $5.4 billion initial public offering last w...
Voting process opens for Amazon warehouse union vote
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
Ballots were being mailed to workers at the warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and voting will continue through March 29, under an order from the National Labor Re...
China blocks Clubhouse app that gave rare access to uncensored topics
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
Authoritarian China deploys a vast and sophisticated surveillance state to scrub the internet of dissent and prevent citizens from accessing international socia...
Google moves away from diet of 'cookies' to track users
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
Last month, Google unveiled the results of tests showing an alternative to the longstanding tracking practice, claiming it could improve online privacy while st...
Amazon warehouse workers unionization vote to move ahead
Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)
Ballots will be mailed to workers at the fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, and voting will continue through March 29, according to the Retail, Wholesale ...
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