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No prizes for Donald Trump in Twitter’s annual review
President Donald Trump, perhaps in recent times Twitter Inc.’s most controversial user, might be disappointed to find out that this year his tweets were less popular than the former president of the U.S. On Tuesday, Twitter released its yearly data and it was revealed that former President Barack Obama was the most retweeted man in ...
Facebook opens new London office, bringing 800 jobs to the capital
Facebook Inc. announced on Monday the opening of a new London office, bringing in 800 new jobs and doubling its employee count in the U.K. The move has been called a vote of confidence in the U.K. despite Brexit, which saw Britain leaving the European Union. Facebook has said that about half the jobs will be ...
Australia probes impact of Facebook and Google on traditional media
Australia’s competition regulator began a probe Monday into how Google LLC and Facebook Inc. have disrupted media in the country. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been asked by the government to look at the impact the aforementioned companies and other digital platforms are having on traditional media and to ascertain the damage it ...
Report: Multiple women accuse investor Shervin Pishevar of sexual misconduct
Prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and early Uber Technologies Inc. investor Shervin Pishevar has been accused of sexual misconduct by five women, according to a report published by Bloomberg on Thursday. Pishevar, who is managing director of Sherpa Capital, is also co-founder of Hyperloop-one (now Virgin Hyperloop One), and served as board observer at Uber for four ...
Supreme Court considers limiting ‘Big Brother’ tracking of mobile data by police
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering imposing stricter limits on police to track American citizens’ movements as a landmark case raises concerns over potentially oppressive surveillance. The high court heard arguments today on the case in question, Carpenter v. The United States, which has provoked doubts regarding the privacy of the American public in the ...
Facebook and Twitter to share info about possible Russian meddling in UK politics
Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. will provide information to the U.K. government to determine if Russian-backed organizations used the Internet to spread misinformation relating to the vote on Brexit. The companies agreed to provide the information following a request by the U.K.’s head of digital, culture, media and sport committee, Damian Collins. The request was ...
YouTube hikes efforts to stamp out creepy videos aimed at children
Following numerous reports on how decidedly creepy content aimed at children is getting past YouTube’s filters, the video platform has once again vowed to take action. The videos in question depict real children’s cartoon characters, such as Peppa Pig, involved in vulgar or violent acts. The videos masquerade as content suitable for kids and find ...
The FCC’s net neutrality proposal is here, and it’s just what the critics feared
If you haven’t seen a meme over the last 24 hours relating to outrage over the scrapping of net neutrality rules, your cyberspace must be a very small world. In spite of the tide of the general public’s enmity towards the changes, it hasn’t always been clear what exactly will change and how it will affect ...
Google tracks your location even if you opted out – until next week, anyway
Your Android phone could be tracking your location even when you when you haven’t turned on location services or even have a SIM card installed, a report by Quartz revealed Tuesday. An investigation found that by triangulating information from cell towers, Google LLC could find the location of users’ phones and send data back to the ...
Justice Department files lawsuit against AT&T to block Time Warner merger
The Justice Department Monday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in an attempt to thwart AT&T Inc.’s acquisition of Time Warner Inc. The merger would be the largest media and telecommunications deal of its kind, set to cost AT&T $84.5 billion. In a press release, Justice said such an acquisition would “substantially lessen competition, resulting in higher prices ...