While multiple online platforms are trying to delete Islamic State online propaganda, the militant organization’s supports are using the Internet Archive to bypass those efforts according to a study. The extremist group used two hidden forums and the report examined hundreds of thousands of links that were posted there. In the last two years, both…
The attempt of digitization of the European Union would crucially depend on ensuring cyber security and the fast development of IT skills, believes the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society – Mariya Gabriel. “Security is a top priority for European citizens, but digitization adds one more dimension to it — cyber security,” Gabriel said…
An attempt by the U.S. authorities to tax big businesses has brought to unlikely foes together – Amazon and organized labor in Seattle. Some leaders in Seattle have expressed their desire to charge large employers for every employee of them working in Seattle keeping in mind the housing crisis being faced in America’s prosperous cities.…
The Chinese state media reported that an 18 years prison statement sentence has bene delivered on the founder of the Chinese insurance company Anbang, owner of New York City’s Waldorf Hotel, by a court in Shanghai on Thursday. The sentence was delivered after he pleaded guilty of illegally raising billions of dollars from investors. 10.5…
Following the decision of the U.S. government to ban U.S companies from selling vital components to the Chinese company ZTE, it has stopped its primary operations in the country, the company announced on Wednesday. The U.S. government had taken the step last month. This has put the company at the center of the ongoing trade…
Pakistan’s top and South Asia’s largest e-commerce platform Daraz Group has been taken over by China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The Chinese company acquired all of the share capital of the Pakistani company, said a statement from the company on Tuesday. Daraz is the owner and operator of the popular Taobao and Tmall platforms and…
Control of leading Indian e-retailer Flipkart will be taken over by Walmart for $16 billion against a stake of 77%. Walmart has been attempting to create a dent into the Indian market and now its has the chance to do so via Flipkart. Wholesale outlets of the Arkansas-based retailer have been prevented to be opened…
The most cited source on Wikipedia is decade ago academic paper that was written by three Australians and is related to global climate zones. It has bene cited and referenced over 2.8m times. But it was not until recently that the wider impact of their paper was known at all to the three authors of…
UK’s data protection watchdog has ordered handing over of all information that Cambridge Analytica has about the US citizen David Carroll. A demand to know the information that the analytic firm has on the U.S. citizen was put forward by Prof Carroll in a legal action which is the source of the data demand. Cambridge…
The deal will see America Tower Corporation rise to the top 5 players in the African continent, with Kenya alone having 41 million mobile subscribers. The deal appears to be long term cost synergies. On Monday, America Tower Corporation stated it will acquire Telkom Kenya’s transmission towers business for an undisclosed amount. The deal, expected…
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