The UK Government looks set to undermine US drive to persuade allies for a global 5G banning of Huawei from the network, after saying it can mitigate and limit Huawei’s 5G risks from using equipment in the high-speed telecoms systems. The UK National Cyber Security Centre has determined there are ways to limit the risks…
Amazon, the biggest company in the US with the richest man as its head, stunned New York by announcing it would no longer relocate its second headquarters to the city, which promised 25, 000 jobs and its $3bn tax incentives and $27bn in tax revenues over the next two decades. Possible culprits include State Governor…
Shares in Snap, maker of the Snapchat messaging app soared 26 per cent at the start of Wall Street trading after the firm said last night it had arrested a fall in users on Apple device and drew a series of favourable reviews from analysts for its progress with a new Android app. The targeting…
US car sales could strink from more than 17m last year to just 11.5m by 2025, about the same level seen in 2008-09 which caused GM and Chrysler to go Bankrupt and Ford to suffer a £11.2bn ($14.6bn) loss. GM after celebrating the world’s largest carmaker for the 76th straight year in 2007 on £19.25bn…
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…
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…
“ 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…
Microsoft in a statement said “ We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored”. The outage caused concern that the service might have been blocked by the Chinese authorities, in the same way the firewall that blocks Facebook and Twitter. Chinese authorities have also cracked down on Virtual Private…
Skygazers were treated to a rare astronomical spectacle of a “ super blood wolf moon” , when the moon turned a deep shade of red, part of a lunar eclipse makes the surface of the moon appear a reddish hue and won’t be seen again for another 18 years. The red moon was visible for…
A Bangalore based educational (edtech) and online tutoring firm founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran, an engineer from Azhikode a costal village in Kerala, India’s largest online tutoring startup and recent entrant to the “unicorn club” is looking to expand into international markets with its latest acquisition of US-based Osmo, a Palo Alto, California startup…