Tech platforms and Internet activists protested the outcome of a European parliament vote on Wednesday to back copyright rules that would help video, music and other rights holders seek compensation for use of their content online.
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US President Donald Trump, stepping up his criticism of technology firms he says are favouring liberal points of view, said they may be in a “very antitrust situation” but repeatedly said he can’t comment publicly on whether they should be broken up.
It’s tempting to ignore the early morning tweets of a technology-challenged US president. Donald Trump is wrong on the facts, but his complaints underscore the business threats to tech companies from growing and largely disingenuous complaints.
US President Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging its search results to give preference to negative stories about him, adding his voice to conservatives who accuse social media companies of favouring liberal viewpoints.
Facebook said it has investigated thousands of apps and suspended 400 of them since a developer data leak scandal broke in March.
Xiaomi delivered a 68% revenue jump and quarterly profit in its maiden earnings report, as the Chinese smartphone giant made strides overseas while fending off a challenge from local rivals such as Oppo.
Once upon a time, Facebook allowed academic researchers access to its data. We know how that story ends: with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
While lamenting abusive conduct on Twitter, CEO Jack Dorsey said any move to block content based on political or social views would stoke already rising concern about the power of social media companies.
Social media platforms now shape public discourse as powerfully as newspapers and magazines did a generation ago, perhaps more so.
Google may be about to pair all that data it has on users’ Web browsing with the ads displayed on public billboards. Creepy? Maybe. Inevitable? Almost certainly.