Privacy Not Major Concerns For Facebook Users, Shows Its Results

Despite the preparation by the social media giant for the payment of a record-setting penalty for settlement of privacy issues with the U.S. regulators, Wall Street seemed to care less as the company announced increased number of users and heightened profit expectations for the first quarter of the current year. Facebook has been facing probes…

U.S. places China’s third biggest e-commerce platform on its notorious markets blacklist

The United States has continued to keep Alibaba’s taobao.com, China’s biggest e-commerce platform on this blacklist. Continuing its crackdown on Chinese companies which exploit and steal U.S. intellectual property, the United States added Pinduoduo.com, China’s third-largest e-commerce platform to its list of “notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights. The United States also kept…

SoftBank & Alphabet join hands to increase coverage of internet in underserved areas

While there are several competitors in the fray to provide internet access to underserved areas, SoftBank and Alphabet opine collaboration could be the key to their solution gaining wider traction and broader adoption. In a significant development, SoftBank Corp stated, it will be investing $125 million in one of Alphabet Inc’s spinoff working to find…

Panasonic likely to upgrade Japanese battery cell production plants to 2170 cells by March 2020

The development comes in the wake of Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, tweeting that Panasonic has been a constraint on Tesla’s production of the Model 3 since July 2018. Against the installed capacity of 35 GWh at Tesla’s Gigafactory at Nevada, Panasonic has operationalized only 24 GWh. On Thursday, as per a source familiar with the…

Microsoft Employees Show Solidarity With Chinese Tech Workers Over ‘996’ Working Standard

Solidarity to their compatriot tech workers in China was expressed by employees of Microsoft through a letter that they got published on the software development platform Github. Workers of tech companies in the United States have made use of this platform, owned by Microsoft, for expressing their views and lodging complaints about the grueling working…