The rally in tech shares has taken the number of people with fortunes of more than $100-billion to eight.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted his frustration with US lawmakers’ questions on the social media platform during a hearing about misinformation on Thursday.
Google’s plan to block Web browser cookies is a source of concern for US investigators who have been asking advertising industry executives whether the move by the search giant will hobble its smaller rivals.
Google will cut the service fee it charges developers on its app store by half on the first $1-million they earn in revenue in a year, after a similar move by rival Apple last year.
Facebook and Google are spending billions trying to get more people online in Africa, but the Internet giants are facing a backlash from governments worried about technology being used to remove them from power.
The cookie is dead. Long live the cookie. Google said this week that it’s done tracking us as we skate around the Web and promises that it won’t adopt replacements that essentially do the same thing.
One of the last big hurdles in the way of the rapid commercial deployment of television white spaces Internet access technology in South Africa has fallen.
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.