Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what they don’t highlight is their role in making almost everything else we consume online more expensive.
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Google will not build or use alternate tools to track Web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The SABC wants a new tax on households introduced to fund public broadcasting and to do away with the television licence fee, which few South Africans are paying anyway.
The SABC wants a government proposal that it be required to distribute its television programming exclusively through Sentech scrapped, warning that it’s already being disadvantaged by “monopoly” pricing.
The architect of Australia’s laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay media companies for content claimed victory on Wednesday though critics said last-minute changes favoured Big Tech.
Spotify will nearly double its market presence by launching in 85 new markets in the next few days, making the music streaming service available to more than a billion people around the world.
When prospectors made what was the biggest oil discovery in history at Texas’s Spindletop well in 1901, the world’s premier oil monopolist was absent from the scene.
BritBox, the British streaming joint venture launched by ITV and the BBC Studios, will be available in South Africa some time in the second half of 2021, the companies said on Tuesday.
Audit Bureau of Circulations data for the fourth quarter of 2020 is harrowing: There will be no rebound for print, and newspapers in particular.
I let out a cynical laugh while watching President Cyril Ramaphosa deliver his state of the nation address in parliament on Thursday evening. By Duncan McLeod.