Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app.
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Huawei has been barred from fully using Android for at least another 12 months, after Donald Trump extended his executive order banning US firms from working with companies deemed a national security risk.
Vodacom on Wednesday announced that it has formed a partnership with Google parent Alphabet to offer Internet access in rural Mozambique using Loon Internet balloons.
Google’s takeover of fitness tracker Fitbit could be “a game-changer” for health data that will need close European Union scrutiny, consumer advocates said.
Government apps designed to help authorities track and slow the spread of Covid-19 are struggling to accomplish their goals because of restrictions on data collection built into smartphones by Apple and Google.
Apple plans to soon start returning more employees to its major global offices while other tech companies are continuing work-from-home policies through to at least the end of 2020 due to Covid-19.
Google wants people using its video chat software so badly, the company is now giving it away. Starting on Wednesday, Google Meet, its teleconferencing app, will be available at no cost.
Alphabet shares surged after first-quarter results and upbeat executive comments showed the company’s cloud and YouTube businesses kept growing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Alphabet said in a regulatory filing that CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded $281-million (R5.4-billion) in compensation last year, making him one of the world’s highest-paid executives.
Society is seemingly trapped in amber, frozen in place by the coronavirus. But really we’re speeding ever faster toward a technological future.