Big Internet companies have long been the target of complaints that they don’t pay enough in taxes. Fed up, more countries are rolling out plans to hit the likes of Facebook and Google with a “digital tax”.
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Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information – every day – about Internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class-action lawsuit.
Online taxi-hailing platforms, streaming sites and subscription-based digital newspapers are among marketplace service providers that Kenya plans to tax, according to proposals by its revenue agency.
Google on Saturday said it has postponed next week’s planned unveiling of the beta version of its latest Android 11 mobile operating system in light of protests and unrest in the US.
Stocks were supposed to be mired in a bear market after they plunged in March as the coronavirus pandemic shut business and sent unemployment to its highest rate since the Great Depression. Except they aren’t.
Google’s dominance of the digital advertising market is harming advertisers, news publishers and consumers, according to a paper that outlines how the US could bring an antitrust case against the Internet giant.
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.
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.