Google’s parent company Alphabet has reported a huge profit increase in its latest quarterly earnings report, as it continues to corner the digital advertising market. The Mountain View-headquartered firm, which appears to…
US Tech Stocks Tumble – And Look Set to Continue Doing So
American Big Tech shares took one of their biggest hits of the year this week, as crises on multiple fronts threaten to topple the dominance of the sector’s big leaders. It leaves…
Mark Zuckerberg Finally Says Sorry – Is It Too Late?
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has broken his five-day silence on the Cambridge Analytica affair, telling users the company’s policies represented “a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their…
Tech Companies Must Do More to Counter Hate Speech – European Summit
Some of Europe’s leading politicians and academics have warned tech companies to play a more active role in countering hate speech, at a summit in Monaco. The session, entitled Responding to the Challenges…
BlackBerry to Battle Messaging Service Giants in Patent Suit
BlackBerry is suing three of the messaging space’s biggest companies for multiple patent violations. The Canadian firm is fighting Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for a host of features related to its BlackBerry…
EU Lands Blow in Tech Tax Battle
The European Union will overhaul its tax relationship with Big Tech, a leading politician has revealed. Speaking to Le Journal du Dimanche, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said that Brussels plans to…
Criticism of the UK’s Anti-Terror Tool is Shortsighted
Yesterday the UK government announced the development of a machine learning tool, with which it will seek out material from terror group ISIS before it is uploaded to the Web. The tool,…
Unilever Threatens to Pull Ads from Google, Facebook “Swamp”
The chief marketing officer of Unilever, the world’s second-bigger marketing spender, will today threaten to pull advertising from Google and Facebook if the tech giants continue to “create division” or fail to…
Former Google and Facebook Staff Launch Anti-Addiction Lobby
A group of ex-Silicon Valley employees has formed a pressure group to educate Americans about the addictiveness of social media. The Center for Humane Technology (CHT), working alongside nonprofit Common Sense Media,…
2018 Must Be the Year Tech Reinvents Itself
In the world of tech, communication can fall far below innovation or investment. Some of the industry’s leading lights are lousy communicators, and issues that alarm the general public are often met…