Credit: CC0 Public Domain Technological innovation in the last couple of decades has brought fame and huge wealth to the likes of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff…
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Google agrees to settle $5 bn lawsuit over ‘incognito’ mode
A lawsuit against Google claims the company’s practices infringed on users’ privacy by ‘intentionally’ deceiving them. Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion…
Legal battles loom as first Mickey Mouse copyright ends
Later, more sophisticated iterations of Mickey Mouse, such as those seen in 1940 Disney feature ‘Fantasia,’ are not in the public domain, and cannot be copied. Almost a century after…
China’s Huawei says expects revenue up almost nine percent in 2023
Huawei has been at the center of an intense standoff between China and the United States. Chinese tech giant Huawei said Friday it “weathered the storm” of US sanctions as…
The late-night email to Tim Cook that set the Apple Watch saga in motion
Credit: CC0 Public Domain At about 1 a.m. California time in 2013, a scientist emailed Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with an irresistible pitch. “I strongly believe that…
Google rejected Play Store fee changes due to impact on revenue, Epic lawsuit shows
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Alphabet Inc.’s Google considered changing its app store pricing model to circumvent a regulatory crackdown, but abandoned a proposal to charge a set fee per app…
Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. A little more than a year ago, Elon…
China approves 105 online games after draft curbs trigger massive losses
People play online games in an internet cafe in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province Friday, March 1, 2019. China’s authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105…
Italy fines Meta for hosting gambling advertising
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Italy’s communications authority said Friday it had fined Facebook’s parent company Meta 5.85 million euros ($6.4 million) for carrying gambling advertising. Italy has outlawed gambling advertising…
