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A court the US has ordered Facebook to pay $500m to ZeniMax Media Inc after ruling the social media giant unlawfully used the firm’s virtual reality technology. The virtual reality headset maker that Facebook bought in 2014 for $2 billion was found to have used stolen computer code acquired from ZeniMax... Read more
Executives and lawyers from some of the biggest tech companies in US meet to discuss lawsuit against new immigration order. The meeting, called by GitHub, a company that makes several prominent software tools, expected to be host to some of the most well-known brands in the world, a spokesman... Read more
New real-time software based on AI and machine learning data helps customer service and marketers come across as more ‘human’. From telemarketing calls to customer service reps, having to deal with human phone support has become a cultural meme on its own. With the popular ban on telemarketers through... Read more
Googleâs ex VP of Android product to leave Chinese phone maker Xiaomi How times have changed… When a major executive in an international tech company was leaving a post, the news used to be shared with formal press releases issued to major news outlets. Instead, Hugo Barra chose to... Read more
CEO Mark Zuckerberg denies allegations Facebook stole Oculus VRÂ tech from rival Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied allegations that Facebook stole its Oculus virtual reality technology from a rival firm when he took the witness stand in a Dallas courtroom. Video game publisher ZeniMax Media Inc. claim that Oculus... Read more
Facebook Founder Meets With Law Enforcement
News January 19, 2017
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg meets with Dallas Police Department to discuss social media’s role in public safety. Social media and law enforcement agencies have a tenuous relationship built on pros and cons. On the one hand, sites like Facebook have become an incredible way to spread the word quickly to an entire... Read more
A Verizon executive has said the company is unsure whether it will be going any further forward with its $4.8 billion purchase of Yahoo. The announcement comes just weeks after the former web giant disclosed a second massive date breach had occurred. Marni Walden, a Verizon executive vice... Read more
With the new year upon us, it’s time to dive right into the hopeful feeling of making a few significant life changes. The age-old “get healthy” and “fix my finances” promised are worthy resolutions, but many people use this time of self-reflection to explore the job market, intent on... Read more
Finland’s Nokia says it is suing Apple for breaching 32 technology patents. Yes, thatâs right, Nokia⊠Despite what many people think, Nokia still exists as a brand, and if reports are to believed, is set to launch a whole new range of Android based smartphones in 2017. Of course,... Read more
Apple has filed an appeal against the European Union ruling that says it has to pay up to âŹ13 billion in back taxes to the Republic of Ireland, and across the globe. The ruling centres on an adjudication by the EU in August that stated categorically that Apple’s tax... Read more
Well, hereâs some Christmas cheer for you. Google is being sued by one of its employeeâs over internal confidentiality policies which ban employees from writing about workplace concerns. According to information available at the time of writing, the lawsuit alleges that Googleâs confidentiality policies are illegal under Californian state law.... Read more
The parent company of the Ashley Madison extra marital affair (now âopen mindedâ) dating website has agreed to pay a $1.6 million  penalty over its July 2015 data breach that exposed personal and payment details of 36 million of its users. The Canadian parent company named Ruby agreed to... Read more
More than 1,200Â software engineers and tech workers from a veritable whoâs who of the tech world have signed an on-line pledge not to participate or help any Donald Trump administration initiative to design or build a proposed database to track people in the US based on their race, religion... Read more
Yahoo Admits To World’s Biggest Hack affecting 1 Billion Users
BusinessNewsPrivacy and Security December 16, 2016
Yahoo has admitted that more than one billion of its user accounts may have been affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. Yahoo said the data stolen included names, phone numbers, passwords and email addresses, but crucially no credit card or bank payment details. Yahoo claims to... Read more
Google has confirmed that it will make good on its 2015 promise to go as green as it can go. The company has said it will hit its target of offsetting 100% of the energy used at its data centres and offices against power from renewable sources, and will... Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled with a whopping 8-0 majority on Tuesday in favour of Samsung in its big-money long running smartphone feud with Apple. The court rejected an earlier ruling that Samsung must pay $399 million to Apple for copying some parts from earlier model iPhone designs. In... Read more
âRidesharingâ uber company Uber has denied accusations that it should be regulated like a taxi service in Europe, claiming its product is nothing more than smartphone software that connects drivers and customers. Uber made this argument at the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice.... Read more
Evidence from a new UK based report claims that women in technology are offered less money than their male counterparts at every level, making the gender pay gap multiply as they advance in their chosen industry. The study, conducted by Hired Inc. took into account more than 10,000 employment... Read more