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The report alleged that major US-based technology firms, including Microsoft, that hire H-1B workers directly had significant shares of their certified H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2, the two lowest wage levels in fiscal 2019, both of which are below the local median wage.

Thought H-1B workers had made it? Turns out Google, Microsoft, other tech firms pay them below par

Report says 500,000 migrant workers in firms like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, Qualcomm and Uber are paid salaries in lowest wage slabs

06 May 2020 3:52 PM

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they use a phone app to scan a code required to prove their health and travel status before being allowed to enter a shopping mall in Beijing. The debate on privacy protection while using such apps is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. Eastern nations are less likely to adhere to privacy protection norms followed in the West. (Photo | AFP)

Location tracking not allowed on apps using Google, Apple APIs but indie app Aarogya Setu does

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy protection norms

05 May 2020 8:32 PM

Deep-pocketed companies such as Intel, which is sitting on USD 11.4 billion cash, are expected to forge ahead with their investments in fields they believe will turn into gold mines. After Intel bought Mobileye, the self-driving car startup's revenue has ballooned from $210 million in 2017 to $879 million last year. That’s a reflection of the big bets being placed on automated driving by both major technology companies, such as Google spinoff Waymo and Apple, and automakers such as General Motors and Toyota. (Photo | Mobileye)

Intel buys Moovit app to boost its self-driving car business in an age of social distancing

The chip maker plans to combine Moovit with Mobileye, a self-driving car specialist that Intel bought for about USD 15 billion in 2017.

05 May 2020 3:20 PM

Trump calls the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post 'fake news', and a lot of scrutiny that Amazon comes into is attributed to this. However, the US House Judiciary Committee has been investigating Big Tech Companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple on anti-trust and data privacy issues. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has testified in such hearings earlier. Now it is Jeff Bezos' turn. (Photo | AFP)

Jeff Bezos may be forced to testify in US House about Amazon's alleged anti-trust practices

US lawmakers on Friday wrote to Bezos saying they would use legal means to force him to appear if he didn’t do so voluntarily

02 May 2020 3:30 PM

While Google makes revenues from its products too, Facebook and Twitter mainly depend on income from ad sales.

Users added aplenty but Google, Facebook, and Twitter lose ad revenues amid covid lockdowns

As travel and shopping shut down, advertising on the three platforms plummeted, but now as lockdown curbs begin to ease, things may look up

01 May 2020 8:01 PM

Two years ago, YouTube began testing panels providing vetted sources of information on topics prone to bogus assertions such as the world being flat.

YouTube adds fact-check panels to videos in US to curb spread of misinformation

Fact-check information panels highlight credible findings by third-parties so YouTube viewers can make informed decisions about claims.

29 Apr 2020 3:13 PM

Google's Play Store has apps with child abuse material, links to WhatsApp groups which are encrypted are found on Twitter, the NCPCR said, indicating the need for the tech-enabled companies to do more proactively to shut down child sexual abuse material.

Searches for child sexual abuse material spike, NCPCR sends notice to Google, WhatsApp, Twitter

A recent report by India Child Protection Fund showed that there has been a surge in searches for child sexual abuse material amid lockdown

26 Apr 2020 10:51 PM

Quarterly updates are due this week from Google parent Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, all of which will see an impact from the pandemic.

Big Tech firms try to highlight covid efforts to burnish image as they grow amid the pandemic

Quarterly results looming, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft do not want to be seen as having cashed in on the coronavirus crisis

26 Apr 2020 10:22 PM

Some 300 leading academics urged governments to dismiss the centralised approach to an app they were backing, saying it risked undermining public trust. They said an approach being developed by Apple and Google, whose operating systems run most of the world’s smartphones, was more privacy friendly. (Photo | AP)

Germany backs Google and Apple's covid app, after privacy concerns raised over alternative app

Backing for a pan-European app that was to keep data on a central server was stopped over criticism from a nation haunted by Nazi-era spying

26 Apr 2020 9:40 PM

Facebook made the aggregated survey information from its users available at https://dataforgood.fb.com/covid-symptoms-map/, while the data for the all responses including from Google users will be published on Carnegie Mellon page covidcast.cmu.edu soon.

Coronavirus 'heat map' visualises spread of COVID-19 from Facebook, Google user surveys

Carnegie Mellon researchers said they received about one million responses a week from Facebook users, and 600,000 from Google users.

20 Apr 2020 8:55 PM

Granted that Google and Facebook give news content legs. They take the story beyond the geographical limits of the newspaper’s reach. But if the disseminator makes nearly all the profits and shares mere peanuts with the producer of the content, how long will news production survive?

Why Google and Facebook should be paying news publishers worldwide

Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will the duopoly accede?

20 Apr 2020 3:54 PM

In addition to Facebook, LeadCloak's software also targeted a number of other technology companies including Google, Oath, WordPress, Shopify, and others. (Photo | AFP)

Indian techie running deceptive coronavirus ads, fake news on Facebook, Instagram faces legal action

Basant Gajjar's company LeadCloak provided ad-cloaking software to sneak fake news and scams past Facebook and Instagram's ad review system

10 Apr 2020 4:23 PM

Lack of adequate security has been a huge and seemingly endless problem with Zoom.

Google bans Zoom on devices used by staff

Employees may continue to use the videoconferencing app to connect to friends and family over browser or mobile

09 Apr 2020 4:20 PM

Like the detection of traffic jams or traffic measurement on Google Maps, the new reports will use “aggregated, anonymised” data from users who have activated their location history. (Representative Image)

Sharing location with Google? Now it will be displayed on site to aid governments in fight against coronavirus

Reports on users’ movements in 131 countries will be published on a website and will chart movement trends by geography, a Google blog said.

03 Apr 2020 4:50 PM

The Google News Initiative is using its extensive CrossCheck network to help newsrooms respond quickly and address escalating content that is causing confusion and harm.

Boom Live is Google's partner in India in fight against coronavirus misinformation

The tech giant has committed USD 6.5 million worldwide to help factcheckers through its Google News Initiative

03 Apr 2020 2:01 PM

Last week, researchers joined the White House in an effort to make available some 29,000 coronavirus research articles that can be scanned for data mining. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

AI could be key to containing pandemics like the novel coronavirus outbreak in the future

Several AI systems identified the first signs of the outbreak on December 30 but the extent of the severity of the disease was not known

26 Mar 2020 12:20 PM

The IBM Summit at a national laboratory in the US has already been working on a project to create a potential drug for the coronavirus COVID-19

IBM, Amazon, Google in US consortium using 16 supercomputers for coronavirus research

Researchers working on projects chosen by the consortium will be given remote access to the supercomputers for drug and vaccine research

23 Mar 2020 1:10 PM

If you search for 'coronavirus' on Google, this appears on the right side of the search results page.

Google’s new website does not screen for coronavirus as Trump said, it has only info

The website points to authoritative resources for coronavirus information and will soon be available in more languages and countries.

22 Mar 2020 2:02 PM

Brussels’ warning comes less than a month after US officials said thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts had embarked on a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the virus.

Fake news about coronavirus being spread by Russia to worsen crisis in US, Europe, says EU

An internal EU document warned that pro-Kremlin media outlets were promoting disinformation to undermine trust in healthcare systems

18 Mar 2020 10:09 PM

Pressure has mounted on Silicon Valley to use their expertise to fight the deadly virus, after roughly 50 scientists signed an open letter last week calling on them to act

Privacy concerns raised as Facebook, Google in talks with Washington to track infections

The use of personal data is highly sensitive especially after 2011 when the NSA was found collecting phone records without permission.

18 Mar 2020 8:44 PM

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