Google may face a record antitrust fine from the European Commission in the coming weeks, according to the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. The EU is considering levying a fine of about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) against the web giant over its dominance in the search market, the newspaper reported. Google did not immediately …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with a group of conservative leaders on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations the social network suppressed stories published by conservative news outlets. The meeting at Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters will include “about a dozen conservatives,” a Facebook spokesman confirmed Sunday, including conservative talkshow host Glenn Beck. In a lengthy Facebook …
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Your desire to shed a few pounds has helped fuel a doubling in ownership of wearable devices in the past two years, according to report released Thursday. Since 2014, the adoption rate for wearable devices has grown from 21 percent to 49 percent, according to a survey released Thursday by business services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Of the survey’s 1,000 respondents who …
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Mark Zuckerberg says there is “no evidence” that Facebook’s Trending Topics feature suppressed stories from conservative news outlets but vows to take action if a Facebook investigation found otherwise. “We take this report very seriously and are conducting a full investigation to ensure our teams upheld the integrity of this product,” Facebook’s CEO wrote in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon. …
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We are consuming news on mobile devices more than ever before, but our avenues to that news appear to be shifting to social media and news apps, according to a report released Wednesday by the Knight Foundation. The study, commissioned by Nielsen, found that 89 percent of mobile device owners use their handset to access news. More than half of …
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The head of the FBI believes that a spike in violent crime in many cities may be due to officers’ fears of showing up on Internet videos confronting suspects. FBI Director James Comey told reporters Wednesday that a “viral video effect” is leading to less aggressive policing that “could well be at the heart” of an alarming increase in murders …
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Nearly a year after Facebook Moments launched in the US, the private photo-sharing app has finally made its global debut — but in a stripped-down version. The version released in the US last June uses facial recognition to group together your photos based on the friends who are in them. You can then search by name to find photos of …
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WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps for smartphones in use today. But to use it on a desktop, you had to run a Web app through your browser. Now the Facebook-owned app is streamlining the process with the launch of a desktop app that syncs with your mobile device. WhatsApp said the new desktop app, which was …
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Facebook users are apparently fascinated by what it’s like to experience a blizzard in New York. A 360-degree video of a blizzard in Times Square filmed by ABC News is the most-viewed video of the year so far on Facebook’s 360 video feature, according to a top 10 list the social-networking giant released Tuesday. The feature, introduced in September, lets …
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Drone fans awaiting the launch of GoPro’s Karma will have to wait a bit longer. The aerial photography drone, which was expected to launch in the first half of 2016, won’t land on retailers’ shelves until the holiday shopping season, the company said Thursday in its first-quarter earnings report. “While we had to make the difficult decision to delay our …
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