Facebook is shutting down an app that paid $20 a month to people aged between 13 and 35 for allowing it to collect data on their iPhones, which according to Apple breached its privacy policies. The “ Facebook Research” app enabled the social network to monitor a user’s web and phone activity, including how they…
Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, head of family owned Taittinger Champagne, made a comment in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper by saying “ I love England, It’s a big market for bubbles. They love Champagne. They created Champagne because of a mistake. Benedictine monks were supplying with still wines from Champagne, red and white wine. The English…
Apple Face Time software has a major flaw acknowledged by Apple, which allowed for brief eavesdropping –even if the recipient did not pick up and in some cases the target iPhone could send video without the receiver’s knowledge. Apple’s status page shows it has disabled the ability for users to make group calls on Face…
Be My Eyes, an award winning app which was launched by Hans Jorgen Wilberg (55), a Danish furniture maker with a simple idea, a blind or visually impaired person needs help with a task, the app makes a live video call to a sighted volunteer, who can tell them if the milk has expired or…
Foxconn, the Taiwanese group that assembles iPhones and makes everything from smartphones to robots for multinational and Chinese brands told the Taiwan Stock Exchange on Saturday that it had invested up to $213.5m in a subsidiary in Tamil Nadu, India, since September and acquired land use rights in Vietnam. SJ Liao, Pegatron’s president, another group…
Novak Djokovic, World number one defeated world number two Rafael Nadal in straight sets in the men’s singles final on Sunday to win Australian Open 2019, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, for a record seventh time. Novak Djokovic embraces Rafael Nadal aty the net and then he is on his knees and bellows to the heavens. This…
Celebrity YouTube blogger and beauty guru, James Charles (19) social media star from Bethlehem, New York, is believed to have brought Birmingham city centre gridlocked after 8, 000 fans flocked to the Bull ring at 16:00 GMT on Saturday. Suffolk Street, Queensway, Navigation Street and Hill Street were all heavily congested as some motorist opted…
Brumadinho dam in Minas Gerais state, collapsed at an iron ore mine in south-eastern Brazil owned by Brazil’s largest mining company, Vale, over 300 people are reported to be missing according to officials. The break caused a sea of muddy sledge that buried the dam’s cafeteria where workers were having lunch on Friday. Thousands of…
In 2015 , Leila Slimani’s debut novel, an unsparing account of sex addiction, won 200,000 dirhams ( $22,000), the La Mamounia literary award ( prix de La Mamounia) in Marrakesh – a prize for French-language fiction by Moroccan authors awarded and donated by the La Mamounia hotel in the hotel where Winston Churchill loved to…
“ I am really sad about Facebook, now I am embarrassed and I am ashamed” a memo written by Roger McNamee to Mark Zukerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Roger McNamee was an early investor and had advised Zukerberg on crucial decisions including turning down a $1bn acquisition offer, and helped him hire Sandberg as his…