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...Facebook, Amazon and Apple did not respond to requests for comment....
...Executives from Alphabet, Amazon and Apple have all personally spoken to members of Congress, according to officials and industry executives....
...Meanwhile, a study co-commissioned by Google and published by the Computer & Communications Industry Association in September, declared that 85 per cent of productivity software used by US government agencies...
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...DOJ proposes social media restrictionsThe US government has stepped up pressure on social media companies, with the Justice Department urging Congress to revise Section 230 of the Communications Decency...
...Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — the so-called “FAANG” companies — are the heaviest generators of internet traffic, and have far higher profit margins than telecoms....
...Apple says it will appeal. 2....
...It connects with your phone via the little-used NFC (Near-Field Communication) technology....
...As part of their information request to Facebook, lawmakers asked for executive communications regarding the social media company’s acquisitions, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Onavo, a security app that...
...Now the industry’s minnows are looking for scale to compete with media mammoths....
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...Information and communications technologies are more widespread than electricity, reaching three billion of the world’s seven billion people....
...Social media is a useful tool for someone, like her, “committed to communication and to change”....
...Those included not just the stocks that are switching sector but also behemoths such as Apple, which from Monday will be a larger constituent of the tech sector and the funds that track it....
...Alphabet and Facebook’s departure for communication services will see trillion-dollar Apple’s sector weight within info tech rise to 22 per cent, from 17 per cent, according to analysts at UBS....
...Google, Apple, Facebook and other technology groups may be forced to help Australian police decode certain forms of encrypted communications on their systems and devices or face fines of up to A$10m ($7.3m...
...You could call it “Cook v Zuck”. In one corner, Tim Cook, the cautious veteran trying to rise above the fray. In the other, Mark Zuckerberg, the embattled upstart with a lot to prove....
...The bill makes it easier for victims to sue websites that facilitate sex-trafficking, by creating an exemption to the 1996 Communications Decency Act....
...If even 1 per cent of Facebook’s users signed up to pay for a music service, it would be about the same size as Apple Music....
...A deal frenzy has gripped the media sector with Comcast, Verizon and Sony Pictures joining Walt Disney as potential bidders for part of the empire that media mogul Rupert Murdoch is considering breaking...
...Media sector consolidation was a factor in the timing shift, with the acquisition by Charter Communications of Time Warner Cable and the purchase of DirecTV, the satellite group, by AT&T bringing forward...
...(Reuters) Apple v WeChat The biggest rival to Apple’s flagship smartphone in China is a messaging app that allows users to pay for food, hail cabs, stream video and more....
...to simply Apple....
...But a new report from the International News Media Association warns of the dangers of getting too close to the technology platforms....
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