US tech giants
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23 May
What you need to know about Zuckerberg’s EU Parliament grilling
In his first appearance in Europe since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to answer questions from 12 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from various political groups.
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18 May
Businesses are desperate to reach Snapchat users, but their value could be overrated
Snapchat users tend to be aged between 18 and 24, with 45% falling into this age group, and the app’s monthly active users reach more than 300 million.
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15 May
Seattle has backed a new tax aimed at big tech companies to tackle homelessness
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a controversial new tax last night to charge the city’s largest business per worker in order to tackle homelessness and a housing crisis.
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11 May
Snap share price falls after hours after it unveils a redesign of its redesign
The Snap share price has dropped after hours in New York after the Snapchat parent company announced its latest redesign of its disappearing messaging app.
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4 May
2017 UK general election: Did Russian Twitter bots boost Jeremy Corbyn?
Did an army of Russian Twitter bots help propel Labour and Jeremy Corbyn to a surprisingly positive result in the 2017 UK general election?
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3 May
Spotify is the latest global tech darling to struggle as a public company
The Spotify share price has fallen sharply at the US market open in New York after the company posted underwhelming first quarter results last night — Spotify’s first earnings release since its market debut in April.
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3 May
Cambridge Analytica is closing: the life and death of a political consultancy
Cambridge Analytica is closing, following weeks of turmoil following its implication in the Facebook data-sharing scandal.
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2 May
Facebook F8: A new dating service and other big announcements from the conference
Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a list of new features for the social network at the semi-annual Facebook F8 developer’s conference in San Jose, California.
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2 May
The Apple share price jumped on solid iPhone sales but its warehouses are filling up
iPhone maker Apple has confounded its critics and reported healthy revenues, topping analyst estimates for its fiscal second quarter despite decreasing demand — and sending the company’s share price higher.
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1 May
HP trial: Autonomy’s Sushovan Hussain has been found guilty of fraud
Sushovan Hussain, the former finance chief of Autonomy, is facing a jail sentence of up to 20 years and 16 fines of $250,000 each, after receiving a conviction for fraud yesterday in the long running HP trial.
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1 May
Apple share price steadies ahead of its second quarter results
The Apple share price has stabilised ahead of the iPhone maker posting its second-quarter results later today.
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30 Apr
Microsoft share price: LinkedIn owner trumps Facebook in social media co investment rankings
Microsoft has been tipped as the social media company best placed to deal with the various challenges facing the sector according to new analysis released by GlobalData’s Thematic Research Division.
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27 Apr
Crisis? What crisis? The Facebook share price is back where it was before the Cambridge Analytica scandal
It’s been a roller coaster few months for Facebook — not to mention its investors.
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26 Apr
Facebook’s Mike Schroepfer testimony: Facebook wants to avoid another election influencing scandal
Facebook is rolling out new measures to make political ads more transparent for UK users, according to the company’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer.
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25 Apr
The Twitter share price has plummeted after it posted its second ever profit
The Twitter share price has fallen sharply in New York at the market open after the social network reported a “strong” start to the year.
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25 Apr
GDPR: WhatsApp bans under-16-year-olds and overhauls its terms of service
Popular messaging service WhatsApp is raising its minimum user age from 13 to 16 in Europe to help it comply with new wide-reaching rules coming into force next month called the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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24 Apr
Cambridge Analytica: What we learnt from Aleksandr Kogan’s testimony
It’s unlikely that Facebook user data obtained by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica was used for US President Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign, according to Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist behind the app that harvested information from 87 million Facebook accounts.
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24 Apr
Facebook rule book — The social network finally reveals the secrets of why it bans certain content
Facebook has revealed long-held secrets on how it polices the social network and why it bans certain content.
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24 Apr
Social stigma — Why some businesses are choosing to shun social media
British pub chain JD Wetherspoon closed down its social media accounts recently — Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — unironically using Twitter to announce its departure.
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24 Apr
Chip demand is falling thanks to the maturing global smartphone market
Asia’s second largest semiconductor maker SK Hynix has warned that the slower growth in smartphone sales around the world means it expects its smartphone chips sales growth to slow in coming months.
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23 Apr
Elon Musk hates office jargon and you should too
Everyone has their pet peeves at work.
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20 Apr
Indonesia has given Facebook one week to come clean on data misuse
In Indonesia some 115 million people use Facebook and the country is among the world’s biggest users of the social network.
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18 Apr
After six years, Facebook is returning to facial recognition — Here’s why
Facebook is to begin asking users in Europe and Canada for permissions to use facial recognition, as required under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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16 Apr
AI in the UK: Seven takeaways from the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee report
After ten months of talks involving more than 200 witnesses, the Artificial Intelligence Committee of the UK parliament’s upper house has concluded that tech giants should be put in their place, workers must be prepared for a jobless future and AI must be regulated before it gets out of hand.
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12 Apr
As Zuckerberg faced his second grilling, the acting Cambridge Analytica CEO steps down
As Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg yesterday faced his second day in front of US law makers, the company at the heart of the social media giant’s data sharing scandal got its third CEO in as many weeks.
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11 Apr
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made $3 billion during his five-hour Senate testimony
The Facebook share price rallied as the company’s founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg give a marathon five-hour performance in front of US law makers, rising almost 5% by the US close and adding $3 billion to Zuckerberg’s personal fortune.
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9 Apr
Sequoia buys the Facebook dip as it moves to notify users whose data was compromised
A least one company isn’t spooked by the recent Facebook share price dip and controversy, with the Sequoia Fund buying a stake in the social media giant.
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6 Apr
Facebook’s 87 million user data scandal included 2.7 million EU citizens
Some 2.7 million European Union citizens had their Facebook information leaked to data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, the European Commission (EC) has revealed.
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5 Apr
“It was my mistake” – Here’s what you need to know about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s announcements yesterday
Mark Zuckerberg has insisted that he is still the best person to lead Facebook, despite continuing fallout from the data sharing scandal around political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
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3 Apr
Wall Street opens higher after bruising start to the quarter
US stocks on Wall Street have opened higher today after a tech sell of caused a bad start to the second quarter yesterday.