Firms called on to ban social media influencers promoting nicotine products November 8, 2021 A coalition of over 100 global health and anti-smoking groups have called for companies to stop social media influencers promoting nicotine products, according to reports. Following a swathe of endorsements by social media influencers of a type of flavoured nicotine pouch, produced by British American Tobacco (BAT), the group wrote a letter to the chief [...]
As The Perkcession Bites, What Workplace Benefits Are Important Now? April 17, 2023 With layoffs at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of New York Mellon racking up thousands of job cuts, those working in the financial services sector are understandably worried about contagion, and whether their own jobs will be safe. The collapse of Credit Suisse in March, and its subsequent rescue by rival UBS, as well [...]
Microsoft’s $16bn Nuance bid secures EU antitrust approval December 21, 2021 Microsoft's $16bn (£12bn) bid for AI company Nuance has won approval from the European Commission following an antitrust probe.
Facebook served climate falsehoods ads throughout COP26 November 18, 2021 Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting under way.
Web 3.0: The Wild West of the web March 3, 2022 A fresh dawn of internet is looming. Dubbed the ‘Wild West’ of the web, a new, decentralised and crypto-infused platform is looking likely to emerge within the internet as we know it.” Web 3.0 is becoming an increasingly hot topic with an enthusiasm to empower users and give them true ownership over their data while [...]
Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over its role in Myanmar genocide December 6, 2021 Rohingya victims of Myanmar's genocide in the UK and US are launching legal action against Facebook over its negligence towards hate speech.
You Meta believe it: we need to figure out how to regulate the metaverse before we’re inside it November 10, 2021 The metaverse has been on everyone’s lips after Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook, now made fresh into Meta. “All of our products, including our apps, now share a new vision: to help bring the metaverse to life”, said Zuckerberg in his melodramatic Founder’s letter. Almost two weeks have gone by since the announcement, [...]
Cabinet backs plans to clampdown on tech giants with strict new content laws February 19, 2022 Home office plans to roll out world’s most stringent internet safety laws have won the backing of the cabinet as the government looks to shift responsibility for harmful online content on to tech giants.
ServiceNow, AND Digital and Salesforce crowned among best places to work in UK January 12, 2022 The best place to work in the UK has been revealed as software company ServiceNow, according to Glassdoor. Tech companies dominate the list of top 50 firms to work for, with 19 firms included in total by Glassdoor, which runs a job reviews platform. ServiceNow was rated strongly by staff members who highlighted a positive [...]
Long-read: Has the twit hit the fan? April 20, 2022 THE HOT topic in tech over the past week or so has been Elon Musk’s hostile $43bn bid for Twitter, which set off a firestorm of, well, tweets.Some claimed Elon Musk was riding to the rescue of free speech, others that his success would mark another step towards the breakdown of democracy. In all this [...]