Facebook may file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, The Information reported Thursday, alleging that Apple abused its power through its App Store rules. The social network’s potential suit apparently says Apple forces outside developers to stick to rules that its own apps don’t have to follow. The report, much of which is behind the outlet’s …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook used an appearance on a virtual International Data Privacy Day panel Thursday to attack Facebook in a series of thinly veiled jabs and to call for global data privacy reforms. Cook’s remarks followed reports appearing earlier in the day that the social media giant has been preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone maker’s …
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The European Parliament has invited Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple chief Tim Cook, Facebook helmsman Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet head Sundar Pichai to Brussels in February or March for a hearing focused on the dominance of their companies, Reuters reported. “The purpose of the planned hearing is to have an exchange with the chief executive officers of the four globally leading platform companies …
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Tech giants Facebook, Google and Twitter will likely face increased scrutiny for their role in the buildup to the deadly riots at the US Capitol this week. With Democrats about to control both the Senate and the House of Representatives, there’s renewed focus on regulation to tamp down the social media platforms’ outsized reach and influence. The violence that erupted …
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Facebook is building an AI assistant called TLDR that will summarize news articles into bullet points, so that you won’t have to read a full story, Buzzfeed News reported Tuesday. The tool — named for the internet acronym “too long, didn’t read” — would also provide audio narration of full articles and a voice assistant to answer questions about a …
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Mark Zuckerberg threatened a UK government minister that he might pull investment from the country in a secret meeting that took place in Paris just two months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. The Facebook CEO met with Matt Hancock, who was at the time the UK’s digital secretary, but who has since been promoted to health secretary, in May …
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The biggest strategic tech challenge facing President-elect Joe Biden as he enters office will be uniting major powers including the US, Europe and India to shape the future of the internet so they’re capable of facing down threats from China, according to Facebook executive Nick Clegg. Speaking at Web Summit on Thursday, the social media company’s VP for policy and communications …
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Over the course of 2020, TikTok’s future has sometimes seemed to be on a knife edge. The Trump administration tried (and failed) to ban the platform, citing concern over data security for TikTok’s US users. And the administration is now forcing Chinese parent company Bytedance to sell the short-form video app’s US operations. But TikTok’s VP of global business solutions, …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. The labels Facebook has been placing on President Donald Trump’s misleading posts about the election have done little to slow their spread across the social media giant, according to internal data cited by BuzzFeed News. After the polls closed on Nov. 3, President …
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Facebook-owned photo service Instagram is doubling down on short-form videos and online shopping. On Thursday, the social network said it’s adding two new tabs to Instagram’s home page to make it easier for users to find short-form videos known as Reels and products they might be interested in buying on the platform. The tabs will appear at the bottom of the …
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