Tech companies boycott Web Summit after chief’s Israel conflict remarks October 17, 2023 A number of UK-based tech companies are boycotting the Web Summit conference in Lisbon after the chief executive called out Israel for committing war crimes.
Tech stocks in a valley February 4, 2022 Just when Silicon Valley thought things couldn’t get any worse, they did. Meta tanked over 25 per cent on Wall Street yesterday, losing around $200bn (£147bn) in value, dragging the tech-heavy Nasdaq down along with it.
New investigation reveals metaverse plagued with sexual and racial abuse April 25, 2022 A recent Channel 4 exposé has revealed sexual and racist abuse runs rife in the metaverse as firms continue to roll out the new technology.
LME: Hong Kong owners pledge to ‘strengthen its stewardship’ of the industry after nickel crisis October 9, 2023 The LME will ramp up its oversight of the market following last year's nickel crisis, the boss of its parent company has pledged.
Large corporations will topple if they fail to adopt web3 tech December 21, 2022 What do Clorox, Twitter, Equifax, Macy’s, ViacomCBS, Nordstrom, and Southwest Airlines have in common? They’ve all, at one point or another, dropped out of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. A common misconception plaguing the world of entrepreneurship is that the only metric of success one should care about is a swift and painless rise [...]
Crypto news live: Why Aptos is at an all-time high as Bitcoin’s price is up 2.3 per cent January 26, 2023 Aptos is going from strength to strength this week, having more than doubled in value over the last seven days, reaching an all-time high of £15.17. The cryptocurrency, created by the team behind Meta’s abandoned Diem blockchain, has soared 145.8 per cent this week, 44.3 per cent of which it gained in the last 24 [...]
Tech giants plunge in value after weak earnings October 29, 2022 US tech giants have had more than $250bn wiped off their value in the past week as investors fled in the wake of a weak set of quarterly earnings and warnings of an advertising slowdown.
Chinese tech giants including TikTok owner reveal algorithms amid scrutiny August 16, 2022 A string of Chinese tech giants have been pushed to share details of their algorithms with Beijing’s cyberspace watchdog amid increasingly scrutiny in China. Some 30 companies, including Alibaba, Tencent and TikTok-owner ByteDance, today had descriptions of their algorithms published by the Cyberspace Administration of China. The Chinese regulator is expected to regularly update the [...]
New Online Safety Bill sparks privacy and national security concerns among public July 4, 2023 The draft Online Safety Bill (OSB) has sparked security and online privacy concerns according to a new survey – although Ofcom has brushed off the scrutiny. Under the new OSB, which is in its final stages of passing through parliament, authorities could force communication providers like WhatsApp to scan online messages sent in the UK [...]
Ancient culture leapfrogging to first nation people’s self-sovereign identity February 9, 2022 Dr Jane Thomason discusses how first nations people have been quietly working to use blockchain to create a self-sovereign digital identity