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In India, Google and Facebook’s rivalry is clear. India is one of the last remaining Internet wildernesses and in this market, Google is comfortably ahead of its arch rival, Facebook. India has 1.3bn people where only 35% of the population (462m) have access to the Internet. It is further complicated by being a huge country with 22 official […]
Apple’s earnings are down according to the latest quarterly report. And iPhone sales are down. There are also rumors that Apple will need to postpone its car launch till 2021. After very long growth and huge iPhone success, Apple is now in a situation where it must really find new growth areas. The Apple Pay […]
Technology industry groups are rushing to lobby the European Commission to change a draft bill, before it’s proposed in September, that would require export controls on surveillance products. Companies are anxious that new, tougher export rules for a range of items, including biometrics and location tracking software, will clamp down on Europe’s technology industry and even […]
I very rarely use Internet banking these days and it seems I’m not alone. Almost every interaction with my bank takes place through one of my mobile banking applications: my Barclays banking application, my Barclays PingIt application (which I assume will soon disappear inside WhatsApp and Waitrose and Hailo and so on), my Simple application, […]
It’s no secret that most of what you do on the internet is already being tracked by your search engine, your apps, your devices, your car and even security agencies if you come up on their radar for any reason. All that data is processed and either used or sold to third parties that want […]
Facebook and Twitter are going in opposite directions. Facebook and Twitter report very different results, highlighting the gulf between the haves and the have-nots in the digital ecosystem. Facebook Q2 16A Facebook reported very strong results as it continued to improve the degree to which it is able to monetise its users on mobile devices. Q2 […]
A new study finds that although cloud-based resources are becoming more important to companies, they are still struggling with cloud security. Despite the continued importance of cloud computing resources to organizations, companies are not adopting appropriate governance and cloud security measures to protect sensitive data in the cloud. These are just a few findings of a […]
Verizon to buy Yahoo in a move that will put them a distant 3rd after Google and Facebook in the $187 BN market of digital advertising. Verizon to buy Yahoo core assets for a bit more than $4.8 billion. The deal includes Yahoo real estate assets, while some intellectual property is to be sold separately. Yahoo […]
Telecoms fraud is still the bane of the industry and is showing no signs of slowing down. Costing the industry billions of euros each year worldwide, roaming fraud has joined the list of the latest targets for criminals. The prevention of fraud has become one of the biggest challenges facing wireless operators of all sizes. Opportunistic […]
The precipitous decline underscores the problem. It looks like demand for smartwatches has precipitously declined in Q2 16A, taking the overall outlook for wearables with it. To me this is just another signal that the market is not ready for wearables mostly because no one has really figured out what to do with them. Data from IDC […]
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