Ex-Google exec said goal was to ‘crush’ competition, trial evidence shows
By Jody Godoy ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) – A Google executive told colleagues the goal for the company’s then-nascent online advertising business in 2009 was to “crush” rival advertising networks, according…
UK to class data centres as ‘critical national infrastructure’
By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s data centres will be classified “critical national infrastructure”, the government said on Thursday, giving the servers and I.T. systems that underpin the country’s…
Top EU privacy regulator opens probe into Google’s AI compliance
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Google‘s lead EU privacy regulator opened an inquiry on Thursday into whether the search engine giant adequately protected European Union users’ personal data before…
Apple and Huawei, two different visions for the future smartphone
If we assume that smartphones have achieved perfection in terms of performance, shooting quality, and user experience, it seems difficult to guess what the future might be. Samsung and Huawei…
The luck of not having banned apps
Banned apps: European citizens are fortunate, but many do not realise it, taking things for granted that they are not elsewhere. A concept that applies to many aspects, including technology.…
Videogame firms hit with EU complaint over ‘tricking consumers’
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Videogame companies Epic Games, Electronic Arts, Roblox and four others were hit with an EU consumer complaint on Thursday accusing them of misleading…
Chinese-Swedish Lynk & Co brand will not raise prices because of tariffs, Europe CEO says
By Victoria Waldersee FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Chinese-Swedish EV brand Lynk & Co, which will launch its first China-made battery-electric car in Europe next month, said it did not intend to…
iPhone 16 and all new products unveiled by Apple
Apple new products: Four were supposed to be, and four were the new iPhones unveiled, only unlike in the past, in some ways, this time it is the iPhone 16…
Visa aims for 10-fold rise in Pakistani use of digital payments
By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Visa plans to increase the number of businesses accepting digital payments in Pakistan tenfold over the next three years, the payments giant’s general manager…
Books in, screens out: some Finnish pupils go back to paper after tech push
By Elviira Luoma and Anne Kauranen RIIHIMAKI, Finland (Reuters) – This autumn, pupils in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books after a…