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By Alexandra Amazon is looking to expand its burgeoning advertising business and its next stop is the digital media’s biggest show. The Jeff Bezos-led company said that it will join …
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By Alex Alphabet’s Google will cut the service fee that it charges developers on its app store by half for the first $1 million in revenue they earn every year, …
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By Steigrad Australian lawmakers advanced a bill that effectively will force Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news content, clearing the last major hurdle for legislation that could …
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By Manskar WhatsApp is pressing ahead with a privacy policy update that sparked a backlash last month — but it promised to give people plenty of time to review the changes. …
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By Manskar Reddit’s army of retail traders might not have been only force behind the unprecedented GameStop rally that turned Wall Street upside down, new data show. GameStop was “notably …
Read More By Manskar A cybercriminal created a bot that sold access to millions of Facebook users’ cellphone numbers through the Telegram messaging app, a new report says. The bot pulled the info …
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By Manskar Google became the latest corporate giant to financially cut off members of Congress who voted against certifying the presidential election results this month. The Silicon Valley titan announced …
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By Manskar Facebook and Amazon spent more money lobbying Washington than any other American company last year as the feds sought to rein in their expansive power, a new report …
Read More By Manskar Facebook and Amazon spent more money lobbying Washington than any other American company last year as the feds sought to rein in their expansive power, a new report …
Read More By Vega Google has reached a first-of-its-kind agreement to pay French publishers for web content. The search giant and French publishers’ lobby’s deal will pave the way for individual licensing …
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By Vega The US government is asking Australia to abandon a proposed law that would force Facebook and Google to pay local media firms a cut of the advertising revenue …
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By Manskar GitHub’s human resources boss has resigned over the company’s firing of a Jewish employee who warned his colleagues in Washington to watch out for Nazis. The Microsoft-owned platform …
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By Vega WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of its upcoming privacy rules amid growing backlash from users over how their data will be shared with parent company Facebook. Users in …
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By Vega Yelp said that it will now allow users to rate restaurants’ safety precautions and sanitary measures related to COVID-19. A restaurant’s review page will now ask patrons if …
Read More By Vega Facebook has removed one of its most iconic features from pages used by public personas and companies. The social network has dropped the “likes” tally from public pages …
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By Vega The Cupertino, California-based tech giant has reportedly asked manufacturer Foxconn to create two prototype shells to test out potential future iPhone designs. The two designs will be very …
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By Manskar The credit card giant said it will lift its payment ban for MindGeek sites that host porn from professional studios. The Luxembourg-based conglomerate owns several such sites, including …
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By Vega The video streamer, which was recently valued at $2.75 billion, will break off from its parent company in the second quarter of next year. “The combination of Vimeo’s …
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By Vega The consumer-products giant in June had suspended all of its spending on the social networking giant due to “the polarized atmosphere in the US,” saying at the time …
Read More By Jack Google won EU antitrust approval on Thursday for its $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit after agreeing to restrictions on how it will use customers’ health-related data. The deal …
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