Tech giant surged on Thursday afternoon after its own app mistakenly put its valuation above the $1 trillion mark earlier in the day Apple’s market valuation surged past the $1 trillion point on Thursday, the first time in history a company has reached that level. Shares surged 2.5 per cent ... Read More »
It’s only a matter of time before the milestone is reached, but investors are advised against complacency over the tech firms Will it or won’t it? The question dominating Wall Street all week has been whether Apple will become the first company with a stock market valuation of a trillion ... Read More »
Chinese human rights groups criticise internet company for reportedly designing software that would leave out blacklisted content Google is working on a mobile search app that would block certain search terms and allow it to reenter China after exiting eight years ago due to censorship and hacking, according to US ... Read More »
Shares crash as social network admits user growth fell after Cambridge Analytica breach More than $119bn (£90.8bn) has been wiped off Facebook’s market value, which includes a $17bn hit to the fortune of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, after the company told investors that user growth had slowed in the wake ... Read More »
Facebook shut down 583 million fake accounts in the first quarter of 2018, the social media giant said as it revealed the huge scale of abuse on the platform. The site has revealed just how much malicious content was being published and shared on the site for the first time ... Read More »
Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday. The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients ... Read More »
With revenues of over $61bn, Apple beat its 2015 record in the report released Tuesday – but sales of its most valuable product are slowing Apple on Tuesday shook off worries that its $1,000 iPhone had failed to live up to the hype – but sales of the world’s most ... Read More »
WHATSAPP users should to be on the lookout for a terrifying new scam message doing the rounds on the hugely-popular chat app. Unlike previous hoax messages, this latest attempt uses an element of truth to convince you it’s the real deal. Here’s how to avoid falling for the Martinelli Video ... Read More »
Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with one of the European Union’s leading regulators this week amid calls on both sides of the Atlantic for more oversight of digital privacy. Zuckerberg last week testified to the U.S. Congress in the wake of revelations that millions of Facebook ... Read More »
Apps collected personal information, such as a child’s location, without asking for parental permission More than 3,300 smartphone apps have been improperly collecting data on children, researchers have discovered. A study of 5,855 Android apps on Google Play found that more than half of them were potentially violating US privacy ... Read More »
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