The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has kicked off a probe into digital advertising and online platforms. Its examination will focus on Facebook and Google in particular, the agency said Wednesday. A similar study in Europe resulted in Google being hit with a $1.7 billion fine in March for “abusive” online ad practices. The European Commission had …
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MoviePass will be suspending its service at 2 a.m. PT on July 4 while it works on improving the app. The company has spent months working on updating its subscriptions to “provide the level of service you deserve,” it said. MoviePass came under fire last year by reactivating accounts and asking former customers to opt out of being subscribed again. …
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Vodafone on Wednesday switched on its new 5G mobile network in seven UK cities. Customers are able to choose between the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G or the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. Vodafone is also offering a 5G router for home and office services called the 5G GigaCube. The carrier is charging 5G customers the same as 4G, offering unlimited mobile data plans starting at …
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Amazon is reportedly charging some grocery brands an additional fee during 2019 Prime Day if their promotional sales fall short and cause a loss for Amazon. The charge will “fund the profitability gap,” CNBC reported Tuesday, citing an email allegedly sent to the retailer’s vendors. Amazon Prime Day is arriving July 15-16 and will see a massive sale on Amazon. …
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The Chinese government is reportedly forcing foreigners to download malware onto their phones when crossing into the country. The malware downloads people’s text messages, phone logs and calendar entries, and scans the device for around 73,000 other files, according to a joint investigation by The New York Times, the Guardian, Motherboard, Süddeutsche Zeitung and German broadcaster NDR. The reports follow …
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Apple’s next MacBook Pro model appears to have been filed in an application to the US Federal Communications Commission. The documents say the laptop will be a 13-inch model, 9to5Mac reported Tuesday. Apple had unveiled a slight update to its MacBook Pro lineup during its WWDC event last month. Its 13- and 15-inch computers now feature Intel’s faster eighth- and ninth-generation Core processors, including an …
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Apple is being sued for alleged patent infringement tied to its iOS low-power mode, core location and facedown detection across the iPhone and iPad. The lawsuit, spotted earlier by Patently Apple, claims the iPhone maker has benefited from improvements to its devices’ battery life as a result of the alleged infringements. Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple introduced Low Power Mode …
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The UK is examining how social video app TikTok handles children’s data and whether it ensures child safety on its platform, a report says. The investigation follows TikTok paying up $5.7 million to settle US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it illegally collected personal information from children. TikTok, which was previously known as Musical.ly, allows users to record themselves …
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A panel that provides policy advice to the Federal Communications Commission is “stacked with corporate insiders,” Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said Monday. She cited a blog post by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), which showed more than half of all Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) members are direct employees of private companies or of industry trade …
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Twitter says its dashboard TweetDeck is back online after a brief outage Monday. “We are aware that some people are having issues with loading TweetDeck. Our team is working to resolve the issue, and we’ll share more updates on this thread!” TweetDeck noted at 11:53 a.m PT. As of 12:22 p.m. PT, TweetDeck said it was back online. “We apologize …
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