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Apple appears to to be acquiring virtual event company NextVR
Apple's augmented reality plans may have received a quiet but important boost.The 9to5Mac team claims that Apple is the midst of acquiring virtual event broadcasting company NextVR in a deal worth about $100 million. While the deal hasn'...
Read More »Forget Zoom? Skype unveils free 'Meet Now' video calls
Skype has rolled out Meet Now video meetings that are free and don't require downloads or signups
Read More »Google to publish user location data to help govts tackle virus
Google will publish location data from its users around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures put in place to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the tech giant said.
Read More »BIG DATA=BIG MONEY: Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse
Members of Congress have a long history of trading stock on confidential information. In fact, up until just a few years ago it was legal and perhaps the best perk of their jobs as “public servants.” Now Big-Data-Kings joins the party. A...
Read More »Facebook Fights Coronavirus Misinformation
Facebook launched an information center around COVID-19
Read More »How Coronavirus Could Slow Down Amazon Deliveries
As Amazon orders surge, coronavirus delays deliveries and threatens to put sellers out of business. Millions of people are told to stay indoors amid coronavirus scares and grocery store shelves empty, Amazon is facing an unprecedented su...
Read More »U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to use smartphone location data to combat coronavirus
The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans’ phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking wh...
Read More »Bill Gates: Countries that shut down for coronavirus could bounce back in weeks
Bill Gates said people should remain calm in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More »Want To Get Screened For Coronavirus By Verily? You’ll Need A Google Account For That.
Privacy advocates are alarmed over the search giant’s new COVID-19 screening portal.
Read More »Facebook, Reddit, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube issue joint statement on misinformation
In an unprecedented move to reassure customers and flag the potential for misinformation about COVID-19 on their platforms, all of the major western social media companies and their parent corporations issued a joint statement on their e...
Read More »Trump Slams Press for ‘Fake News’ over Google Coronavirus Screening Tool
President Donald Trump condemned the press for spreading fake news about Google’s planned Wuhan coronavirus screening tool in a press conference Sunday.
Read More »France Fines Apple Almost $1.4 Billion for Anticompetitive Practices
U.S. tech giant Apple has reportedly been fined €1.1 billion euros ($1.37 billion) by France’s competition watchdog for anticompetitive practices.
Read More »Apple reopens all its stores in China, with shorter hours, amid signs coronavirus has peaked in country
The coronavirus outbreak, which has morphed into a global pandemic, forced the government to put parts of China under complete lockdown
Read More »Working from home not all it is cracked up to be for some US-based Chinese tech workers
More than 130 countries have introduced some form of restriction or tightened their border entry requirements. Last year an average of more than 14,000 people per day travelled to the US from China
Read More »Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full film) | FRONTLINE
An inside look at how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos built one of the largest and most influential economic forces in the world - and the cost of Amazon’s convenience.
Read More »Facebook shuts down London offices over Covid-19 after visiting Singapore employee tests positive
Facebook has shut down its three London offices until Monday after a Singapore-based staff member who’d visited two weeks earlier was diagnosed with coronavirus, the social media company confirmed.
Read More »Republican Donor Buys Major Twitter Stake With Plans To Oust CEO Jack Dorsey
Conservative billionaire and hedge fund manager Paul Singer, and his company Elliott Management Corp., bought a sizable stake of Twitter with alleged plans to oust CEO Jack Dorsey over Twitter’s overt political bias.
Read More »Tim Cook says he's 'optimistic' that China has the coronavirus situation under control
Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes that China is getting the situation related to the COVID-19 coronavirus under control. He also said that factories in China that make iPhone parts are reopening. Apple warned last week that it wil...
Read More »A Democratic president could have a big impact on the tech industry - here's where the candidates stand on important tech issues
Voters from 14 states and one U.S. territory will decide which Democratic candidate to support for the presidential nomination on Super Tuesday. Besides some of the top issues like healthcare and gun policy, some voters may be weighing c...
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