Facebook has been criticised by iPhone maker Apple for trying to “collect as much data as possible” from users. Despite objections from the advertising industry, Apple will march ahead with its plans for launching of a new privacy feature, the iPhone maker said. This criticism was made in a letter to a coalition of privacy…
Despite the United States based aircraft maker Boeing is close to getting back into the air its grounded 737 Max planes, there are a host of other challenges awaiting the company in the critical aviation market of China. There has yet been no word from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) about allowing a…
Following the approval to flu in the skies again to Boeing’s 737 Max passenger jetliner planes by the regulators in the United States, the same is set to be done by regulators in Europe in January. The planes have been grounded for 20 months now after two deadly crashes involving the planes in which 346…
In relation to its controversial previous practices of intentionally slowing down older iPhones to extend their battery life, Apple has agreed to pay millions of dollars in damages to to 34 states in the United States. Under the agreement struck by Apple, the iPhone has to pay $113 million for the settlement of an investigation…
In a significant development, a group representing Volkswagen AG, General Motors Co, and Toyota Motor Corp and other major carmakers filed a lawsuit to block the state of Massachusetts’ ballot initiative that aims to significantly expand the access to vehicle data. Earlier this month, Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved the initiative to revise the state’s 2013 “Right…
For every 10,000 content views posted on Facebook in the third quarter about 10 were included in hate speech, said the social media company while disclosing numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, for the first time in its history. The estimate was released in its quarterly content moderation report by the…
Two of the most high profile digital media firms are set to merge together with the acquisition of HuffPost bty the online news and lifestyle site Buzzfeed. As part of the deal, seller Verizon Media will become a minority shareholder in Buzzfeed and will also make investments in the new combined entity. A partnership for…
After finding it difficult to meet up to a sudden increase in demand by consumers in the early stages of the novel coronavirus pandemic, an acceleration in growth is being predicted by the German fashion e-tailer Zalando. These comments were made by the company’s Chief Financial Officer David Schroeder on Thursday. A large number of…
On Friday, Astanor Ventures, a backer French insect breeder Ynsect as well as Germany’s vertical farmer InFarm stated, it had raised a $325 million fund to invest in sustainable agriculture, food, and ocean technology startups. The new fund will back ventures that seek to make the food supply more resilient to climate change and attempt…
With demand for online grocery shopping accelerating during the pandemic, the online grocery service FreshDirect is to be acquired by Ahold Delhaize which is a Netherlands-based firm that owns the United States based supermarket chains Stop & Shop as well as other grocery chains of Giant and Food Lion. The terms of the deal such…
