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Brad Bender, Google’s vice-president of product management, said they had been in discussions with partnered publishers—including the Spiegel Group in Germany, Schwartz media in Australia and Brazil’s Diarios Associados—for several months, “with more to come.” (Representative Image)

Google gives up resistance, says it's ready to pay publishers for high quality news

Google said in a blog post that it would launch a licensing program to pay publishers

25 Jun 2020 4:51 PM

While Trump has argued the temporary freeze was aimed at helping US workers facing high unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, critics said the move would backfire and hurt one of the key segments of the American economy. In this picture, a view of Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay Area, considered part of 'Silicon Valley' in the United States. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Tumbenhaur)

Key segment of US economy, tech firms will be hit by Trump's ban on hiring H-1B workers

Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech firms have long relied on skilled immigrants to fill key positions of engineers and data scientists.

24 Jun 2020 7:38 PM

Gamers will be encouraged to transition to Facebook Gaming, which has some 700 million people who play or watch games every month.

Can't keep up with Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft gives up livestreaming gaming, ties up with Facebook

Microsoft Mixer will be shuttered on July 22, the tech giant said in a statement.

24 Jun 2020 7:10 PM

A Black man who says he was unjustly arrested because facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter is calling for a public apology from Detroit police, and for the department to abandon its use of the controversial technology. Several cities, led by San Francisco last year, have banned the use of facial recognition. (Photo | bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

Calls to abandon facial recognition use as wrongly identified Black man seeks Detroit police apology

The Detroit police has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias, especially as it is prone to errors identifying people of colour.

24 Jun 2020 6:44 PM

The in-app payment feature in WhatsApp, which could be accessed directly within a conversation with a participating business, was free for users. Businesses were to be charged a small fee similar to a typical credit card transaction.

Blow to Facebook as Brazil suspends WhatsApp digital payments just a week after launch

Brazil’s central bank said the payments platform was anti-competitive and there were concerns over data privacy.

24 Jun 2020 6:06 PM

“There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, DC, as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!” Trump tweeted. Trump’s tweet referred to the police-free district created by protesters in Seattle, in Washington state, two weeks ago, which has sparked outrage among conservatives. (Photo | AP)

Can the US President not tweet he would 'force' against protestors? Twitter hides his tweet

Twitter’s move escalated the battle between the White House and social media firms.

24 Jun 2020 5:15 PM

Ben & Jerry’s said it was also joining the “Stop the Hate for Profit” initiative supported by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other rights groups. Facebook makes an estimated $70 billion annually from ads. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Hede2000)

Facebook losing ads because of its inaction against hate speech

Popular US icecream brand Ben & Jerry’s becomes latest to join Facebook ad boycott

24 Jun 2020 4:31 PM

Google’s net US digital ad revenues will drop 5.3 percent to $39.58 billion to bring its market share down to 29.4 percent

Google ad revenues down, the duopoly it enjoyed with Facebook now a ‘triopoly’ including Amazon

A big part of the decline will come from “search advertising,” or paid messages deployed by Google when a user enters a search query.

22 Jun 2020 9:03 PM

Swiggy said that it only operates as an intermediary and the prices displayed on the platform are directly uploaded by its partner restaurants. (Representative Image)

Complaint against Swiggy for overpricing unsubstantiated, says Competition Commission

Swiggy was accused of overcharging customers but the company said it's restaurants that decide the pricing.

22 Jun 2020 7:22 PM

The upper section of the arena is seen partially empty as US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Fire Department spokesperson Andy Little said the city fire marshal’s office reported a crowd of just less than 6,200 in the arena, which could seat 19,000, and where a crowd of 100,000 people were expected on the streets. (Photo | AFP)

TikTok teens taking up mantle of subverting Trump campaign scupper Tulsa rally

The tech-savvy teens mobilised online and reserved tickets for Trump’s Tulsa campaign rally with no intention of attending.

22 Jun 2020 5:20 PM

Not just for the Black Lives Matter protests, George Soros is also being blamed by conspiracy theorists for the pandemic. In this image, a man holds a sign with the images of Hungarian-US billionaire George Soros (L) and Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez, reading "Virus = expropriation of companies" during a demonstration called by small businessmen affected by the government's mandatory quarantine imposed for more than 13 weeks, to protest against the quarantine and the expropriation of the Vicentin agro-industrial company on the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, June 20, 2020. (Photo | AFP)

Liberal billionaire George Soros the target of conspiracy theories over black protests

The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks and conspiracy theories for decades.

21 Jun 2020 9:41 PM

Netgear Armor is especially useful at this time when the sensitive work of most companies is being done by employees from home.

Netgear offers cyber security for an annual subscription with its routers

Netgear says it can protect networked devices against Trojans, ransomware, spyware and blocks malicious links in emails and apps.

21 Jun 2020 6:43 PM

A small grocery store (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Naman Bhagat)

Tech This Week | Encouraging small sellers to get online must be a policy priority

One of the best ways to make that happen is to provide the right incentives to MSME sellers to go online

21 Jun 2020 4:59 PM

The twice-a-year fair usually draws more than 180,000 foreign buyers and 60,000 Chinese vendors to the southern city of Guangzhou. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Gzdavidwong)

Massive Chinese trade fair goes online, but buyers stay away

The Canton Trade Fair, founded in 1957, was for decades Chinese exporters’ main link to foreign buyers.

19 Jun 2020 10:37 PM

Video starts recording if one tells their iPhone “Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over,” so if police misbehaves, it would be caught on camera. (Photo | Flickr - Mark Guim)

‘Hey Siri’ tech trick lets people pulled over by cops in US record video on command

“Siri police shortcut” was getting traction on social media after software developer Robert Peterson tweeted a link to its latest version.

19 Jun 2020 10:06 PM

YouTube uses metadata and other “signals” from videos to make decisions about filtering content or placing money-making advertising based on race, according to the suit. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Ajay Suresh)

Youtube accused of racial discrimination, sued by black video artists

The suit says the company uses racial, identity and viewpoint profiling and filtering tools to restrict, censor, and denigrate blacks.

19 Jun 2020 8:16 PM

Google increased its free advertising initiative by $200 million, with the added funding intended for non-profits “tackling pressing issues like COVID-19 response and recovery—especially in hard-hit developing economies—and fighting racial injustice around the world,” Google Ad Grants head Michelle Hurtado said in a blog post.

Anti-racism and COVID non-profits will get Google ads worth USD 1 billion this year

Since 2003, Ad Grants has provided non-profits with up to $10,000 per month in free ads on internet search results to help attract donors

19 Jun 2020 6:53 PM

"I don’t think it’s right for private companies to censor politicians and the news," Facebook's Jewish CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said defending his stand to accept political ads that told lies to garner votes. But Facebook has removed a campaign ad by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that featured an upside-down red triangle, a symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners, communists and others in concentration camps alongside Jewish prisoners. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Anthony Quintano)

Use of Nazi symbol touches a nerve with Zuckerberg, but he's fine with ads peddling lies

Trump campaign ad removed for featuring Nazi-era symbol used to denote political prisoners in concentration camps alongside millions of Jews

19 Jun 2020 5:51 PM

$Facial recognition technology has a dark side, with it integrated into China’s massive public surveillance system and its social credit experiment where even minor infractions of public norms can result in sanctions.$

What's the deal with facial recognition software and how it's weaponised

Although firms like IBM have said it will no longer supply face scan software to police, several other players making the technology would.

18 Jun 2020 10:37 PM

The app framework developed jointly by Google and Apple relies on Bluetooth technology to alert users if they came into contact with a COVID-19 infected person.

After dissing Google-Apple COVID app model, UK now embraces it

Earlier, the UK government had said the privacy controls that the app developed by the tech companies was unsuitable and ineffective.

18 Jun 2020 9:58 PM

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