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Many News Corp. print mastheads were challenged and the double impact of the coronavirus lockdown plus tech platforms such as Google and Facebook not remunerating local publishers for content made the mastheads unsustainable, News Corp. Australasia executive chairman Miller said.

Aussie papers go digital, downsize as COVID, unpaid content...

Ad revenue has declined making print operations unsustainable while Big Tech makes money on newspaper content without...

28 May 2020 4:43 PM IST

A Google Waymo self-driving car on the road in Mountain View, California, USA. Google, Uber, Tesla and major car makers such as BMW, Toyota, Volswagen as well as several Chinese companies have been investing in technology that eliminates the need for humans to navigate vehicles. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Grendelkhan)

Amazon trucks could soon be self-driven: Ecommerce giant may buy...

Zoox was founded in 2014 with a mission to build a fleet of fully autonomous, battery electric, zero-emission...

27 May 2020 5:11 PM IST

$There are now companies developing technology which make it possible for the employer ... to look at whats on your computer screen and to check your keystrokes and if you get up and walk away for a minute, theyll send you a warning. Thats being installed right now.... Its not the future,\$ Technology

Big technology firms should be stopped from turning the world into a...

He is referring to China's social credit system that tracks citizens to award/deduct points on a score determining one's...

25 May 2020 5:08 PM IST

IBM has struggled to compete with top cloud rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

IBM's new CEO Arvind Krishna, on a path to sharpen focus of company,...

The company will eliminate software and services that don't align with its top two focus areas: cloud computing and...

23 May 2020 7:35 PM IST

Offices emptied out by the coronavirus are likely to stay that way for a while, as tech companies package the extension given to employees to work from home as a favour done to them while blurring office time and personal time and getting more bang for their buck.

Work from home being sold as the new culture by tech giants Facebook,...

It enables companies to cut the cost of rent, power and other charges from maintaining an office

22 May 2020 4:54 PM IST

Many governments have already tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to roll out their own phone apps to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of those apps have encountered technical problems on Apple and Android phones and havent been widely adopted. They often use GPS to track peoples location, which Apple and Google are banning from their new tool because of privacy and accuracy concerns.

After a long wait, Google and Apple release their joint COVID app...

It uses Bluetooth technology to detect when someone who downloaded the app has spent time near another app user who...

21 May 2020 7:55 PM IST

Google said it will honour all existing contracts with its customers, but didnt specify what companies. Greenpeaces report says Microsoft appears to be leading the way with the most oil and contracts, offering AI capabilities in all phases of oil production. Amazons contracts are more focused on pipelines, shipping and fuel storage, according to the report. (Photo | Flicker)

Reminded of its climate change pledge, Google says it will stop...

Greenpeace report said Amazon, Microsoft, Google undermining their own climate pledges by partnering with Shell, BP,...

20 May 2020 7:45 PM IST

Not willing to let Google, Apple set terms, France building own government-monitored COVID app

Not willing to let Google, Apple set terms, France building own...

France, Britain, Norway say government needs access data to combat virus whereas the tech firms say they are adhering to...

20 May 2020 4:21 PM IST

Australia last month announced plans to force major internet firms to share advertising revenues earned from news content featured in their services.

Australian watchdog suggests boycott of Google, Facebook to force them...

The radical idea was among a series of possible bargaining tools put forward by the Australian Competition and Consumer...

19 May 2020 5:25 PM IST

The EU law would include all aspects of the digital world, including cracking down on hate speech, protecting user data and preventing big companies from abusing their dominant market positions.(Photo of the European Commission building | Wikimedia Commons - Nuno Nogueira)

As EU seeks accountability, Mark Zuckerberg urges approach that won't...

European Commission working on a Digital Service Act to curb powers of US big tech even as Google, Facebook lobby hard...

19 May 2020 4:58 PM IST

Most of the revenue comes from a digital ad market that Google dominates along with social networking rival Facebook _ another potential target of antitrust regulators. There has been no word, though, whether Facebook might be sued.

Accused of stifling competition, Google slapped with antitrust cases...

In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission closed an extensive investigation into Google's alleged abuses without taking any...

16 May 2020 4:50 PM IST

Heres a specimen of a fax machine, if youve never seen one. It functions like a copier machine that sends a photocopy of your paper document to someone on the other line.

Can you believe America still uses fax machines?

Public health workers are collecting vital pandemic data over faxes and phone calls in a country that invented the...

14 May 2020 7:11 PM IST