Uber Technologies Inc released its first diversity report on Tuesday, showing that women and non-white employees are underrepresented at the ride-services company – just as they are at many other technology firms. Uber released the information after a series of revelations about
The impact of United States trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-owned firm said. The first one is Russian developer Anatoliy Kashkin who
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US regulators approved a roughly 4 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. The FTC has been investigating allegations that Facebook inappropriately shared information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (Jul 11) criticised Bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies and demanded that companies seek a banking charter and make themselves subject to U.S. and global regulations if they wanted to “become a bank.” “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not
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United States President Donald Trump denounced the world’s top social media companies for “terrible bias” and accused them without evidence of manipulating his content during a summit at the White House on Thursday. “You have a lot of power and you have to use it wisely,” President Trump said to the several hundred conservative digital
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United States PresidentTrump’s favorite social media platform has stopped working even as he was hosting a White House meeting about deplatforming and other forms of online censorship. The cause of the outage is unknown. “We are currently investigating issues people are having accessing Twitter, and we’ll keep you updated on what’s happening,” a company spokesperson
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The White House is hosting what it’s calling a “social media summit” on Thursday, but the event won’t include any social media companies. Facebook Inc said it had not been invited while Twitter Inc and Reddit declined to comment. Alphabet Inc’s Google did not respond to requests for comment. Though Trump has millions of followers
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Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp have all gone down in a simultaneous and strange outage, People in Japan, South America, Europe and the US all reported problems on Wednesday according to data collected by Downdetector Users are complaining about photos not being able to load, videos not appearing and voice messages failing to send. Social media
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Facebook is to launch a cryptocurrency next year – backed by the likes of Mastercard, Visa and PayPal – which will allow people to move money from their smartphone. The currency is known as Libra, which the social network says it has “no special role” in governing and will manage the reserve equally with a
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China’s Huawei has signed a deal with Russian telecoms firm MTS to develop 5G technology in Russia. The companies will develop next-generation 5G networks in Russia over the next year, reports said. The deal was agreed as China’s President Xi Jinping began a three-day visit to Russia. It comes as some Western countries, led by
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Facebook banned a shocking number of 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first three months of 2019 — almost as many as the total number of real people who use the social network. “We’ve seen a steep increase in the creation of abusive, fake accounts on Facebook in the last six months,” the company said
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