Amazon announced it will spend $700 million over the next six years to help retrain a third of its US workforce to adapt to an economy increasingly disrupted by automation and new technology.
French lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that would impose a new tax on services provided by large internet companies despite the risk of a costly backlash from the Trump administration.
A conspiracy theorist, a meme creator and a plagiarist. Those are just some of the eyebrow raising attendees who will descend on the White House on Thursday for an event that will likely become a forum for airing claims of anti-conservative social media bias.
The Federal Reserve has set up a working group to evaluate Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, Chairman Jerome Powell told the House Financial Services Committee during his testimony Wednesday. This is part of escalating regulatory scrutiny of the digital currency.
AT&T will automatically block fraudulent calls for all customers for free. This makes it the first major US carrier to enable the free service for all customers after a June FCC ruling that allows phone service providers to offer call-blocking on an opt-out basis.
With "Dr. Mario World," a new mobile video game, Nintendo is trying to strike the right balance between closely guarding its video game characters and making its super-popular games available to as many people as possible.
App developers have found ways to skirt Android permissions and collect user data, even after users denied them permission to do so, according to a new study from the International Computer Science Institute.
Austrian lawyer Max Schrems is good at making life difficult for Big Tech. But his latest case could have major implications for all sorts of companies.
Marriott faces a $124 million fine for failing to protect customer data, the second major penalty proposed this week by UK regulators under Europe's tough new privacy rules.
Alphabet's plans to develop a Toronto neighborhood could set a dangerous precedent for the future of data-driven cities, according to data governance experts.
