US tech giants

Coronavirus: Big Tech companies step up to the plate

The Covid-19 pandemic is changing the public perception of Big Tech from greedy exploiters of personal data to providers of…

Cisco SecureX provides unified visibility and control of enterprise security

Cisco announced at RSA 2020 that in June 2020, it will be launching SecureX, a security platform that aims to…

Facebook must find a new future direction

Facebook’s latest quarterly announcement of the weakest growth figures in the seven years since it went public has highlighted the…

Apple’s acquisition of Xnor.ai will provide competitive edge at the device edge

Apple’s recent acquisition of Xnor.ai will help it challenge Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, in the race to target…

Wearable tech market is maturing, but still outside of the mainstream

Wearable tech is an emerging sub-market in the Internet of Things (IoT) theme but has yet to establish itself in…

Attorney General turns his back on US innovation

US Attorney General William Barr raised eyebrows by suggesting in a February 6 speech that the US and its allies…

EU’s right to be forgotten ruling leaves questions unanswered

The EU’s top court has ruled in favour of tech giant Google in a landmark case about the ‘right to…

Generation Hashtag is reshaping the world, says GlobalData

Generation hashtag describes a demographic of people born between 1991 and 2005. This unique group covers younger members of the…

Exposed Facebook phone numbers risk SIM jacking and robocalls

An unprotected online server has exposed more than 419 million phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts, potentially putting users at…

Facebook ‘hide likes’ feature: Part of the social media giant’s privacy offensive?

Social media platform Facebook is reportedly building a feature to hide ‘likes’ in a bid to discourage users from comparing…