Samsung to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year
Samsung’s plan to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year may help it compete with low-cost rivals such as Huawei and Xiaomi but it’s a strategy…
Watchdog groups urge FTC to block Google’s Fitbit deal
Lawmakers pressed top U.S. antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over…
Int’l committee calls for pause on false political ads online
An international “grand committee” of lawmakers called on Thursday for a pause on online micro-targeted political ads with false or misleading information until the area is regulated. The committee, formed…
UK lawmakers call for action on banks, Big Tech companies to avoid IT failures
British regulators should impose higher levies on banks if they need more resources to stop big IT glitches and should consider regulating cloud service providers such as Google, UK lawmakers…
U.S. states plan Google antitrust meeting next month in Colorado – Sources
U.S. state attorneys general probing Alphabet’s Google plan to meet next month in Colorado to discuss a probe into whether the search giant’s business practices break antitrust law, according to…
I don’t just want to push Trump off Twitter, I want to push him out of the White House – Warren
Elizabeth Warren U.S. Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren went after big tech companies during the Democratic debate on Tuesday but brushed off rival Kamala Harris’s challenge to join her…
Uber launches boat service in Lagos
Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc on Friday launched a pilot test of a boat service in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos to attract commuters seeking to avoid the megacity’s notoriously…
Google partners to expand digital skills program to reach children in Nigeria, across SSA
Google has announced it is engaging local organisations via its partnership with the Cape Town Science Centre to train 200,000 students in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa within 1 year….
Rwanda launches first ‘Made in Africa’ smartphones
Rwanda’s Mara Group launched two smartphones on Monday, describing them as the first “Made in Africa” models and giving a boost to the country’s ambitions to become a regional technology…
Oracle to hire 2,000 workers to expand cloud business to more countries
Oracle Corp plans to hire nearly 2,000 additional workers as part of an aggressive plan to roll out its cloud computing services to more locations around the world, its cloud…