Google is buying security firm Mandiant for $5.4-billion, adding heft as rivals Microsoft and Amazon also look to beef up security for their fast-growing cloud units.
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Fitbit is recalling about 1.7 million of its Ionic smartwatches globally following reports of burn injuries from overheating batteries.
MultiChoice will not pull the plug on RT, the state-funded Russian news channel, even as the EU and major tech companies move to sanction it.
The prime ministers of Poland and the Baltics have demanded executives in charge of Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter “take a stand” against Russian disinformation.
As Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, another battle was taking place online and over the airwaves.
It’s still in early development, but Google has released a version of its Chrome OS operating system, called Flex, that allows users to install the software on PCs and Macs.
Google said it would bring its Privacy Sandbox initiative to Android phones, vowing to chart a less “blunt” path than rival Apple over digital advertising.
Google Analytics doesn’t sufficiently protect European Union citizens’ data from potentially illegal US surveillance and could be banned altogether.
Meta Platforms’ revenue is taking a multibillion-dollar hit because it can’t gather as much data on iPhone users. The company spent last year attacking Apple for the change; now it’s publicly calling out Google, too.
Google will land its high-capacity Equiano submarine cable system in Namibia in May and in South Africa in June.