The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday cracked down on a massive illegal robocall operation responsible for billions of auto-warranty scam calls in recent years, with regulators imposing a record $300 million fine on what authorities said is the largest such network it has ever investigated.
Google unveiled new privacy updates this week that lets US users have a wee bit more control over the search results that pop up about themselves online.
India has placed restrictions on the import of computers and laptops in a surprise move from the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which has been trying to encourage domestic manufacturing in the tech sector.
E-commerce behemoth Amazon increased its net sales 11% to $134.4 billion in the second quarter as analysts monitor consumer spending in both the cloud and retail markets.
Apple said Thursday that its revenue slipped 1% to $81.8 billion for its quarter ending July 1, marking the third consecutive year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue for the world's most valuable company.
Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, is struggling to retain users roughly a month after its highly publicized launch, according to fresh industry estimates showing that app engagement has fallen to new lows.
China is proposing new measures to curb the amount of time that kids and teens can spend on their phones, as the country takes aim at internet addiction and tries to cultivate "good morality" and "socialist values" among minors.
Japan's Nintendo on Thursday said it sold 3.91 million units of its Switch console in the April-June quarter, exceeding sales in the same period a year earlier, boosted by the runaway success of its latest "Zelda" title.
Meta has begun to remove news content from Facebook and Instagram in Canada, the social media giant said Tuesday, in response to recently passed legislation in the country that requires tech companies to negotiate payments to news organizations for hosting their content.
Uber has reported that its revenue ticked up 14% last quarter, marking a slower pace of growth than recent quarters when sales surged as riders returned to pre-pandemic habits.
Twitter has sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit group that has criticized the company's handling of hate speech, following through on a litigation threat that had been publicly revealed just hours before.
Officials from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection on Monday morning observed that the new "X" on top of the building formerly known as Twitter's headquarters was being dismantled, according to Patrick Hannan, the department's spokesman.
In a July 20 letter shared publicly Monday, Twitter threatened to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the group of a campaign to hurt Twitter by driving away its advertisers.
In a complaint, the city of San Francisco says they have visited the headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter twice since Friday regarding the new flashing "X" sign on top of the building.
In mid-July at the construction site at 1 Java Street in Brooklyn, New York, the outside temperatures can reach sweltering highs in the 90s. But 500-feet underground, it's 55 degrees all year round.
European officials are investigating whether Microsoft's practice of bundling its Teams software with Office 365 is anticompetitive, the European Commission said Thursday.
Two US senators are calling for the creation of a new federal agency to regulate tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Meta, in the latest push by members of Congress to clamp down on Big Tech.
