Sat, Jan 23 2021

The past year has been grim, solitary, and deeply traumatic. For the tech industry it's been all those things, plus hugely lucrative. Silicon Valley has long specialized in technologies that compete with face-to-face social interaction, and this…

WASHINGTON — A military arm of the intelligence community buys commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searches it for Americans' past movements without a warrant, according to an unclassified memo…

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS (Reuters) - A German app developer has filed a complaint with European Union antitrust authorities against Google and Apple which he said last year rejected a game aimed at encouraging compliance with government COVID-19 rules.

Blobr, a Paris-based startup operating in the no-code space with tech to make it easier for companies to expose and monetise their existing APIs, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round is led by pan-European pre-seed and seed…

Google's high-handed threat to shut down its search engine in Australia smacks of the knife-flourishing baddie in Crocodile Dundee. The eponymous ocker hero carried a far bigger blade. The search behemoth hopes to avoid paying publishers whose…