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Law Lessons: Facebook’s Spanish Fine Highlights Importance Of GDPR Readiness

ANALYSIS: Much of the conversation around GDPR has focused on the security implications for businesses, but what about privacy?

8 years ago

Slack Teams With Oracle On Enterprise-Grade Chatbots

ORACLE OPENWORLD: Deal could help $1bn startup Slack compete with Microsoft and Facebook in the enterprise-grade messaging market

8 years ago

Facebook & BT Admit First Startups Into UK Telecoms Tech Accelerator

AI, SDN and Quantum computing firms will have access to £125m in funding and resources at Telecom Infra Project (TIP)…

8 years ago

FEC, Lawmakers Propose Disclosure Rules For Political Web Ad Sources

ANALYSIS: New rules would place disclosure requirements on online political advertising similar to those already in place for TV ads

8 years ago

Microsoft & Facebook Lay Highest Capacity Transatlantic Cable

Microsoft and Facebook lay 160Tbps subsea cable between Virginia and Bilbao to protect Transatlantic traffic against natural disasters

8 years ago

Britain, France And Italy Will Pressure Internet Companies To Tackle ‘Terrorist Content’ Faster

Britain wants Internet firms to remove extremist content from their sites and services in a speedier fashion, with the aim…

8 years ago

Microsoft, Facebook Partner On AI Framework Interoperability

The new open-source ONNX format will help developers move between AI frameworks with greater ease

8 years ago

WhatsApp Details Plans For Business Version Of Application

WhatsApp reveals more details about long-awaited business edition, promising verified accounts and ability to stop spam

8 years ago

Instagram API Flaw Reveals Celebrity Data

Oops. Celebrity email addresses and telephone numbers exposed by flaw with Instagram API

8 years ago

A-Level Results Day: British University Uses Chatbot To Help With Clearing

Leeds Beckett University is using Facebook Messenger to help students find the right courses in clearing

8 years ago

Facebook AI Experiment Shutdown Holds Lessons For IT Industry

Facebook's reasons for shutting down an AI-based chatbot were more mundane than it first appeared

8 years ago

Facebook Splashes Out On AI Startup To Boost Messenger Assistant

Facebook will look to make use of Ozlo's knowledge graph that reportedly contains over 2 billion entities

8 years ago

Facebook Bakes Natural Language Processing Into Messenger Platform 2.1

Developers will be able to make better use of smart service capabilities in Messenger

8 years ago

Facebook Boss Scolds Security Industry And Urges Attitude Change

Time to grow up. Security head of Facebook urges industry to concentrate more on helping people stay safe and stop…

8 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg And Elon Musk Clash Over AI Destiny

Musk said Zuckerberg's understanding of AI is "limited"

8 years ago

Microsoft Zo AI Turns Its Virtual Nose Up At Windows 10, Suggests Linux Or Windows 7

Zo prefers Windows 7 and Linux over Redmond's flagship operating system

8 years ago

Facebook, Ford Foundation & GitHub Donate £229,990 To Open Source Bug Bounty Program

Internet Bug Bounty receives cash donations to expand its Internet safety program.

8 years ago

Reports Suggest WhatsApp Is Blocked In China

Another example of the Chinese government's ongoing efforts to control the internet

8 years ago

Facebook Accused of Data Extortion By German Authorities

Facebook will be forced to make technical changes if found guilty of antitrust charges

8 years ago

Facebook Successfully Completes ‘Aquila’ Drone Test Flight

A second test flight of Facebook's Internet-access drone has come to a successful conclusion following the crash of its first…

8 years ago

Google Takes Action Against Extremist, ‘Inflammatory’ YouTube Videos

Google is to add more engineering resources and human experts in its efforts to remove extremist content from YouTube

8 years ago

Facebook Enlists AI To Combat Terrorism

Amid growing political pressure from European leaders, Facebook insists it is combating terrorism

8 years ago

UK And France Could Fine Companies Over Extremist Content

Prime minister Theresa May is to discuss new legal measures against social media companies in her meeting with French president…

8 years ago

How Digital Transformation Is Powering Football Success At Real Madrid

IN-DEPTH: Real Madrid is in the middle of a digital transformation project to ensure it wins more trophies, engages fans…

8 years ago

Facebook Fined By EU For ‘Misleading’ Over WhatsApp Deal

Zuckerberg's company ordered to pay £95m for misleading authorities during its purchase of WhatsApp

8 years ago

Cloud Growth Sees Nvidia Revenues Surge With Data Centre Hardware

Strong growth in the data centre arena gives Nvidia a robust business on which to build out innovative product and…

8 years ago

Tech Quiz: The Week In Review (5 May)

It's been another week filled with tech news, but have you been paying attention?

8 years ago

Facebook Warns Of Ad Saturation, As Profit, Revenue Surges

Quarter of the world's population now uses Facebook, with nearly two billion people signed up to the social network

8 years ago

WhatsApp Service Restored After Worldwide Outage

WhatsApp issues are still unclear after service goes down overnight

8 years ago

Google And Facebook Hooked By $100m Phishing Scheme

The IT giants were tricked into paying millions to a scammer who impersonated a major Taiwanese electronics supplier, prosecutors say

8 years ago