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December 9, 2020

Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data and analytics firm App Annie’s year-end forecast. Consumer spending across the two app stores will also grow by 25% […]

November 30, 2020

Telecoms providers won’t be allowed to install equipment provided by Huawei in their 5G networks from the end of September 2021, according to a new roadmap published by the government. The document lays out the steps that telecoms companies will […]

November 19, 2020

Russian lawmakers are fed up with American social-media platforms labelling Russian state-affiliated outlets as Russian state-affiliated outlets. In recent years, Facebook and Twitter enraged outlets such as Sputnik and RT by removing some of their pages for “inauthentic behavior,” and […]

November 18, 2020

French startup Yubo is the biggest social media app you’ve never heard of — unless you’re a teen. With a focus on young people under 25, the company has managed to attract 40 million users. A fraction of them hang […]

November 11, 2020

Global investors pummeled shares of China’s tech giants for a second day Wednesday following signs of a crackdown by Beijing regulators. On Tuesday, the Chinese government released sweeping new draft rules aimed at curbing monopolistic behavior among China’s largest Internet […]

November 5, 2020

You may have heard that the United States had a presidential election yesterday, with plenty of implications for the tech world, particularly with social media as one of the battlegrounds in the fight over the results. Meanwhile, major tech-relevant ballot […]

October 22, 2020

“Private wireless connectivity has become central to many industries in realizing their long-term digital transformation goals. By delivering private 5G together with Verizon, we’re paving the way to accelerate digitalization for the most demanding industries who crave reliable wireless connectivity,” […]

October 19, 2020

Europe’s timely rollout of 5G is being threatened by the sabotage of new infrastructure and other expressions of mistrust, more than half the EU’s countries warned Monday. In a letter to the European Commission, 15 countries said they were witnessing […]

October 15, 2020

Everyone in politics and media has been in an uproar over a decision Wednesday by Facebook and Twitter to suppress a New York Post story that purported to reveal emails from Joe Biden’s son Hunter that cast the former Vice […]

October 14, 2020

Facebook is one of the world’s largest corporate purchasers of renewable energy, having signed deals for more than 5 gigawatts of “clean” power—3.5 gigawatts of which is expected to be online by the end of the year. (One gigawatt is […]

October 14, 2020

Verizon today announced “nationwide” 5G coverage along with support for the new 5G-enabled iPhones. But for most consumers, Verizon’s 5G upgrade won’t make much of a difference. The newly enabled 5G runs on the same spectrum bands used by Verizon […]

October 9, 2020

AT&T is planning thousands of layoffs at HBO, Warner Bros., and other parts of WarnerMedia as part of a plan to cut costs by up to 20 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. WarnerMedia is what used to be […]

September 28, 2020

Verizon and AT&T have agreed to pay a combined $127 million to settle lawsuits alleging that they overcharged California and Nevada government entities for wireless service. The lawsuit was filed in 2012 and resulted in a settlement approved on Thursday […]

September 25, 2020

Verizon and AT&T have agreed to pay $116 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that both carriers have overcharged government agencies for over a decade. The announcement, made on Thursday, relates to a lawsuit in which 30 government entities and […]

September 21, 2020

People in China know how to read web sites and use email services banned in the country. They use a technology called a virtual private network, which masks their location. It’s a fact of life in China, one of the […]

September 16, 2020

Google is asking employees to take a more active role in moderating internal message boards, as those discussions get more heated and employees remain working from home, according to documents obtained by CNBC. The company has recently seen a rise […]

September 14, 2020

The TikTok conundrum may be about to be solved—or not. Here’s what can be said for certain at the time of writing. According to multiple outlets, Oracle is the “winning bidder” for a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance, regarding the […]

September 9, 2020

With less than two months to go until the 2020 U.S. election, Facebook is struggling to assure users and employees that it has everything under control. Four years ago, the social network took no action as Russian operatives posed as […]

September 8, 2020

Samsung this week won a 5G deal with Verizon that is valued at 7.9 trillion won ($6.7 billion) and will see the Korean tech giant become one of the largest telecom equipment suppliers in the world. The move comes after […]

September 3, 2020

Facebook and Twitter flagged posts from President Donald Trump, the latest effort by the companies to crack down on misleading voting information. Twitter added labels to two tweets from Trump for “encouraging people to potentially vote twice,” the company said. […]