Social media companies operating in Britain, including Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok could face fines up to 10% of their respective turnover if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content under laws proposed by Britain on Tuesday. In a statement the British government said, social media platforms will need to do more…
On Tuesday, according to a report from Japan’s Nikkei newspaper, Apple Inc plans on boosting the production number of iphones by nearly 30% to up to 96 million units. According to the report, which cites sources familiar with the matter at hand, Apple has asked suppliers to produce around 95 million to 96 million iPhones,…
There was an outage of a number of Google’s services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs throughout the world on Monday. However there was reportedly no apparent impact of the technical standoff on the working of Google.com and Chrome. The outage resulted in temporary unavailability of Google Classroom which prevented many students around the world…
The announcement of the $39 billion deal for acquisition of the United States based biotech company Alexion Pharmaceuticals by the British pharma company AstraZeneca resulted in a drop of 9 per cent in the share price of the British drug maker. According ot analysts, investors were spooked by the costs for the company because of…
German investigators are investigating the social media giant Facebook in relation to the company’s virtual reality headset – the Oculus Quest. Facebook has made it mandatory for an owner of the Oculus Quest 2 to have a working account on the social media which has been criticised severely by VR fans and reviewers. According to…
In a statement social network firm Reddit said, it would acquire TikTok rival short-video platform Dubsmash. Although Reddit did not disclose the financial terms of the deal its spokeswoman said the acquisition was based on a combination of cash and stock. TikTok’s proliferance has led many social media companies to add short-video services to their…
On Monday, computer gaming giant Electronic Arts said, it had agreed to acquire Codemasters for $1.2 billion, trumping an earlier agreement between the British company and rival Take-Two Interactive Software. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Codemasters will receive 604 pence per share, compared with the 485 pence per share Take-Two had offered.
According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Russian-state backed hackers have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Commerce and Treasury Departments. The hacks that have so far been uncovered may only be the tip of the iceberg. The gravity of the cyber security can be inferred from the fact that it…
In a statement, SolarWinds, an IT company said, monitoring products that it had released earlier this year in March and in June may have been surreptitiously tampered with in a “highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state.” The statement by SolarWinds comes even as the U.S. intelligence community is investigating cyber…
According to a source familiar with the matter at hand, Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to acquire a 80% stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group in a deal worth around $736 million to $828 million (800 billion to 900 billion won). The development assumes significance since Hyundai can leverage the technology to expand automation…
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