Around the web
Displaying links tagged Internet [back to index]
13 Jun 202323 May 202324 Apr 202319 Sep 202217 Mar 202111 Dec 202019 Oct 202010 Aug 202016 Jul 202025 May 202028 Apr 202024 Apr 202031 Mar 202020 Mar 202027 Dec 201923 Dec 201918 Dec 201926 Nov 20194 Nov 201911 Mar 201915 Aug 201815 Jun 201813 Apr 201810 Apr 20189 Apr 201821 Mar 201813 Feb 201819 Dec 201713 Oct 20175 Sep 201729 Aug 20176 Jun 201731 Mar 201729 Mar 201715 Mar 20179 Mar 201713 Jan 201715 Jul 2016
A Hong Kong court's decision whether to grant an injunction against the distribution of protest song Glory to Hong Kong highlights the increasingly shaky ground upon which internet platforms are treading there. It could also be the final catalyst foreign players need to exit the market - a move that would be more damaging to Hong Kong than the companies calculating whether the legal minefield is still worth navigating.
Bloomberg
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has reopened a lead over internet giant Tencent Holdings as Asia's biggest company by market value, helped by a resumed rally in chip stocks.
Bloomberg
The Biden administration is beginning to plan for 6G wireless telecommunications, seeking to expand internet access while reasserting US leadership in a sector where China has notched gains.
Wall Street Journal
Most people may live out their digital lives with the assumption they can delete their posts, messages and personal data from services whenever they choose. But a tech hearing this week threw that core assumption into question.
CNN
Baidu has raised US$3.1 billion in its Hong Kong secondary listing, according to a filing by the Chinese internet search giant.
Reuters
New DNS technique separates address lookups from the people making them.
Ars Technica
China has revised laws to strengthen the protection of under-18s online, state news agency Xinhua reported late on Saturday, forcing internet product and service providers to take action when necessary.
Reuters
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants a "clean" internet.
BBC News
Among the many types of inequality in the United States laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic is the digital divide between those who can access the internet at home and those who can't.
CNN
44.2 Tbps over a fiber cable, using a single chip
The Verge
The Trump administration's 2021 budget request contains $237 million in funding to support quantum information research.
CNBC
Facebook (FB) is spending billions of dollars for a stake in India's largest mobile operator, and teaming up with the country's richest man to tap into an internet boom.
CNN
Vint Cerf, vice president of research at Google and one of the main creators of the Internet, has tweeted that he tested positive for coronavirus. He also recommended people watch an HBO segment from comedian John Oliver about preventative steps that the US needs to take.
ZDNet
New IP sounds good in some ways, but might help authoritarian crackdowns.
engadget
Netflix will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN
It's another brick in Russia's own Great Firewall.
engadget
It wants automated systems to echo state policies.
engadget
Thousands of islands dot the Pacific Ocean between Asia's southern coast and Australia, and the people who live on them have stayed mostly isolated from the digital age.
CNN
A non-profit campaign group set up by Berners-Lee has secured the backing of Facebook and Google for his "contract for the web."
CNBC
On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called "sovereign internet" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia.
CNN
Thousands of people in Russia have protested against plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet.
BBC News
Infineon Technologies and JD group have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating a smart IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem.
Company release
Once again European lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that promises to change the internet as we know it.
Gizmodo
Qualcomm's vision intelligence platform features the company's first family of system-on-chips (SoCs) purpose-built for the Internet of Things (IoT) using 10nm FinFET process technology.
Company release
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told USA TODAY he's leaving Facebook out of growing concern for the carelessness with which Facebook and other Internet companies treat the private information of users.
USA Today
The combined product portfolio and future common platforms of UnitySC and HSEB will support manufacturing of devices used in mobility, automotive and internet of things applications.
Company release
In a move to combat the epidemic of false and unreliable information on the internet, Google is pledging to spend $300 million over the next three years to support authoritative journalism.
New York Times
Injong Rhee, a former chief technology officer at Samsung Electronics, has joined Google as an entrepreneur-in-residence to lead Google's Internet of Things (IoT) business, Rhee said in a blog posting on LinkedIn.
EE Times
In 2006 the Chinese government allowed Google to establish Google.cn for Chinese internet users. In return, Google agreed to scrub results of content that the government found objectionable. The deal held until 2010, when Google decided it could no longer agree to such terms. Within hours, the site was blocked and Google's search business on the mainland was dead.
Bloomberg
Google moved to strip from its news search results publications that mask their country of origin or intentionally mislead readers, a further step to curb the spread of fake news that has plagued internet companies this year.
Bloomberg
Imec and Analog Devices have entered into a strategic research partnership to develop the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Company release
Google's search service may be banned in China but parent Alphabet Inc. is hunting for workers in a further sign it has ambitions in the world's biggest internet market.
Bloomberg
Google has a plan to protect users of its market-leading Chrome web browsers from intrusive ads. It's a plan that could make the web browsing experience better for tens of millions of people. But it could also raise thorny questions about Google's growing market power.
Vox Technology
This powerful platform allows the Galaxy S8 to support Gigabit LTE, for fiber-optic Internet speeds on the go, and more consistent mobile data performance in more places.
Company release
Tencent, Asia's second highest valued tech firm, has bought a five percent share in Tesla. According to a filing, the Chinese firm scooped up 8,167,544 shares for around $1.7 billion to become one of Tesla's largest shareholders.
TechCrunch
In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, Yahoo laid out the severance packages for executives that will be leaving the company as it sheds its Internet business chrysalis and emerges as an Alibaba stock-holding company moth called Altaba. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive officer, will receive a package of cash, stock, and benefits valued at a total of $23,011,325 at the completion of the deal, according to Yahoo's proxy statement. Of that, $3 million will be in cash.
Ars Technica
StatCounter is out today with its data for February 2017 and highlights that Android is inching closer to passing Windows as the most popular operating system for internet usage worldwide.
9to5Google
Google has shuttered its plan to use massive solar-powered drones to deliver internet to rural and remote parts of the world.
CNNMoney
Infineon Technologies, Europe's biggest chipmaker by revenue, agreed to buy Cree's Wolfspeed Power unit for $850 million to expand in fast-growing markets such as electric cars, renewable energy and the Internet of Things.
Bloomberg
1/6 pages