Details of the deal, which is huge given that traditional carmakers have so far been hesitant to hand over the data from their infotainment systems to rivals given the potential streams that can be generated from there, have not been made public. On Tuesday, in what is likely to be a huge boost to Google’s…
Despite its vociferous campaigning last year for levying a 3% tax on the digital earnings of global tech firms, the SPD backed down after concluding that such a move would not be productive. On Wednesday, Germany’s Bild newspaper stated, the country’s finance ministry has, given up its plan of levying more taxes on internet giants,…
Google’s YouTube has made rapid gains in machine learning technology and said, 83% of violent extremist content is removed without the need for human intervention. Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants, including Facebook, Apple and Google, as it finds way to mitigate the threat of online extremism by taking down material aimed at…
In a historic development, a U.S. senate panel has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at reducing the time gap before robotic self-driving cars are deployed on U.S. roads. In a development that will lend further momentum to automakers, a U.S. Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill aimed at speeding the deployment of self-driving vehicles…
The ruling will be closely watched by “patent trolls” and tech companies alike since both are frequent users of the ‘inter partes’ review system. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed has agreed to take up the matter of whether a federal administrative process frequently used by technology companies to ward off patent infringement lawsuits…
A bipartisan group is in the process of drafting legislation which is expected to address some, if not all, of the concerns raised in the said letter. More than two dozen U.S. tech companies in the U.S., including Amazon and Facebook has urged the U.S. Congress to make broad changes to laws that govern internet…
Tech giants are locked in a bidding war for academics who specialize in artificial intelligence. As per a report from Research firm CB Insights, 34 artificial intelligence startups were acquired in the first quarter of 2017, which is double the of the previous year of the same quarter. This insight is likely to be significant,…
Tech companies who were seen doing the victory round will have to better study the judgement to see its legal implications. Although many companies are buoyed by a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court which set a limit on where they can be sued for patent infringement, a few intellectual property lawyers opine that due…
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