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...“The expansion of Covid-19 has vastly altered consumer behaviour, mindset and value,” he said. “Digital technology has now penetrated every part of our lives.”...
...A letter to the biggest social media companies was sent on Tuesday by the Home Office and the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. 4....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...His suit will probably ripple beyond the world of music and film: it comes at a time of deepening suspicion of digital services and platform owners....
...“We have to adapt,” said JJ Abrams at CinemaCon, to what he called the “age of piracy, digital technology and disruption”....
...But hard-and-fast views are breaking down in the face of declining print advertising and the rise of adblocking technology that poses a serious threat to digital advertising models....
...many goods and services....
...Page and Brin are best known for innovations in web search — not to mention their long-range ambitions, such as driverless cars....
...(NYT$) Off-piste at Davos Today’s agenda includes discussions on the future of the digital economy with Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg (4.45pm GMT), and a talk from Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi...
...Among dozens of small, technology-focused acquisitions, the $3bn purchase of Beats Electronics, the celebrity-endorsed headphones and music streaming service, stands out as Apple’s largest ever deal....
...Robotic assistants, driverless cars, connected homes, digital public services, laboratory-grown meat, augmented reality and electric-powered vehicles are just a few of the futuristic technologies elbowing...
...Facebook and Google often post new services to the web to see how users respond, before improving them based on large-scale, real-world behaviour....
...Thanks to their openness and generosity, we had some futuristic experiences in today’s incredible environment of digital innovation....
...“If you look at all digital innovation in fashion . . . all the pioneering companies come from Europe....
...The real innovation, however, is in the software and delivery of education services, and in the analytical tools that underpin it....
..., publish their own books, or deliver new services at low cost over the company’s web services offering....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...of Fulfilment by Amazon, and the rentable cloud computing infrastructure of Amazon Web Services....
...The more recent introduction of third-generation mobile services, which offer faster speeds to download mobile internet data, are likely to boost the use of the web....
...These include services such as mobile banking and mobile healthcare, two fast-growing sectors that are rapidly bringing modern services to rural areas in Africa....
...The author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) – a book that outlines how technology allows us to organise without the need for formal organisations – is also mentor to countless aspiring web entrepreneurs....
...And such will be the competition for cash that some projects are likely to create fresh innovations to attract lenders. One of those innovations is the risk transfer....
...Brown said, “We are the leading mission-and business-critical technology solutions provider with a commitment to innovation....
...tasks such as e-mail, web browsing and word-processing....
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