Gmail users have experienced a host of problems, as the mail service struggles to rebound from Monday’s global outages. “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users,”…
Big Tech Avoiding Almost $3bn in Developing-World Tax – Report
US tech giants are exploiting tax loopholes to avoid paying billions to the governments of developing nations, according to an NGO report. ActionAid International claims that Facebook, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet…
Google Invests in Atlanta’s Black Entrepreneurs
Google for Startups, the tech giant’s entrepreneur wing, will invest in a host of Black entrepreneurs in Atlanta, as part of the company’s $5 million Black Founders Fund. Thirty-five of the Fund’s…
Tech Giants Open New Front Line in Battle Against White House
Fresh from their adversarial hearings, US tech’s biggest players are going in to bat against the White House again – this time over President Donald Trump’s ban on certain working visas. Apple,…
New York Preps New Antitrust Laws, with Big Tech in Sights
New York lawmakers have introduced a new antitrust bill that will make it simpler for authorities to sue big tech companies for alleged breaches of monopoly powers. The sultrily-named S8700A bill is…
Portshift CEO Ran Ilany: “Kubernetes will Become the De Facto Deployment and Orchestration Target”
Portshift is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm that provides a Kubernetes-native security solution – “a single source of truth for containers and cloud-native applications security.” It has raised over $5 million to…
Apple and Google Developing Co-op COVID-19 Tracking Tech
Tech giants Apple and Google are working together to create tracking software that may be used to combat the spread of Coronavirus. The tech, detailed in a white paper released Friday (April…
Romanian Startup TypingDNA Wins $7m Funding from Google’s AI VC
Romanian typing biometrics startup TypingDNA has secured a $7 million Series A funding round, led by Google’s AI-focused VC firm Gradient Ventures. The 2016-founded company, based in Romania and New York City,…
Three Ways Tech Could Save the Rainforest
In the freshest apocalyptic omen since last month, the Amazon rainforest is current on fire—tens of thousands of fires, deliberately started, and greenlit by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right, populist leader. G7 heads…
In 2019, Tech Must Win Back Public Trust – Or Sink
From revelations that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube helped Russian intelligence manipulate western elections, to Google’s record $5 billion antitrust fine for misusing Android, 2018 has been a year of scandal for tech’s…