As part of the overall Digital Single Market programme, the European Parliament has voted to approve new regulations claiming to protect European businesses and consumers when using online platforms to trade.
All Facebook sites were down once more yesterday, which coincides with Facebook shareholders calling for its founder to have less control over the company.
In a bid to keep the European Commission off its back social media giant Facebook is admitting to its users that they’re the product.
France appointed a new minister for digital, while the UK is considering setting up a new regulator for the internet, both governments aimed at playing stronger roles in controlling the online world.
The days of the wild-west internet seem to be coming to a close with Austria and Australia becoming the latest nations to update the rules governing the business activities of the internet giants.
The latest mutiny at Google illustrates what a political game technology has become and it’s only going to get more so.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked governments and regulators to play a more active role in developing new rules for the internet.
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has lodged a lawsuit against Facebook, challenging the hyper-targeted big data model which has made OTTs billions over the years.
Just as Facebook’s core platform is beginning to wilt, Instagram is launching an assault on the shopping market built on the walled garden business model which bloomed in by-gone years.
Facebook has recently bemoaned the decline in US local news sources, but a major reason for this has been the collapse in media advertising revenues.
Facebook’s day started off with a major outage and, should reports turn out to be true, it is ending with the social media giant facing a criminal investigation from Federal prosecutors.
Facebook’s head of PR reportedly had a series of meetings with EU and UK officials aiming to safeguard the social network’s business model heavily relying on targeted advertising.
The Facebook founder laid out his plan for the next steps how Facebook will evolve with a focus on privacy and data security, and promised more open and transparency in the transition.
In recent days another round of restrictions has been imposed across YouTube and Facebook, with social media companies increasingly being used as proxies in a culture war.
Facebook is only the tip of the iceberg, but Parliament is coming after Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley cronies in the long-standing battle to understand and curb the influence of social media.
German regulator Bundeskartellamt has made a fresh attempt to curb the powers of the internet giants, this time targeting the data processing capabilities of Facebook.
In just the third year of the EU’s Orwellian online speech purge it looks like the major platforms are largely submitting to its will.
One day after Facebook had its enterprise developer certificates revoked by Apple, Google ran into similar troubles with the iOS and App Store owner.
It’s that time of the quarter when all the earnings announcements come at once, so here’s a brief look at three US tech heavy-hitters.
Facebook has apparently been paying customers $20 each to trade away their privacy to install a VPN which analyses usage, sidestepping Apple’s App Store policies.
Nokia downplays report claiming it's struggling to deliver 5G kit in South Korea https://t.co/hlmtAqlLHf
18 April 2019 @ 16:15:12 UTC
Reviewers report major faults with Samsung's new foldy screen https://t.co/OEeMWWlHeD
18 April 2019 @ 13:13:35 UTC
FCC is likely to deny China Mobile's licence application https://t.co/FQATsWoO1v
18 April 2019 @ 12:12:50 UTC
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