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The United States House of Representatives Antitrust Subcommittee on Monday opened an investigation into competition in digital markets, increasing the pressure on big tech companies over antitrust issues. The subcommittee is part of the House Judiciary Committee The bipartisan investigation will include a series of hearings on antitrust, commercia...
Apple dangled the next versions of iOS, macOS and watchOS before developers' eyes during Monday's keynote event at its World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California In this round of operating system upgrades, Apple seems focused on improvements....
Salesforce has used its Trailhead learning system to teach developers how to program on its Lightning platform for more than five years. The company last week completed its fourth highly successful TrailheaDX conference, which attracted 14,000 people to the Moscone Center in San Francisco There are plenty of good reasons for Salesforce to be in the...
Privacy, a new muscular Mac Pro workstation, and the debut of iPadOS were topline items Monday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California During its more than two-hour presentation at the forum, Apple emphasized new features in its products aimed at protecting users' data and privacy....
Payment processing company Stripe on Monday launched Chargeback Protection, a machine learning-based system to limit the impact of fraudulent credit card transactions on merchants A chargeback is a demand by a credit card provider for a retailer to make good on a fraudulent or disputed transaction by repaying the full purchase amount plus a chargeb...
Building and sustaining a brand has gotten more challenging. The global marketplace, empowered by the Internet, has delivered a raft of opportunities to businesses, but it also has opened the door for challenges. These challenges include increased competition as the result of a wider market, and increased possibilities for brand abuse. Added to th...
Like a lot of folks, I'm a tad sick of Intel. Last month we learned of its second big security scandal in as many years. Once again, the company not only neglected to disclose the problems in a timely way but also lacked a plan to recall the failed parts. Once again, buyers likely will have to cripple their Intel processors if they want to use th...
When live streaming first started to roll out across multiple social media platforms, it remained pretty unclear how this new technology would interface with Internet users. More often a source for friends to include one another on events they're missing out on, frequent uses of live video streaming felt experimental in nature. What was it all abo...
Open-source operating systems, in general, are less worrisome because their code is open to inspection by anyone with the skills to understand it. Does that mean Linux computing platforms from nongovernmental sources in politically tense countries are equally worry-free? At least one situation last year brought FOSS' safe-to-use reputation into que...
The budding online cannabis industry has a long way to go before it delivers bumper crops. The market for both recreational and medicinal cannabis has been plowed and pre-seeded by the previous underground market and the impetus of state laws legalizing its use Still, the cannabis industry is almost invisible online, cloaked in a broad ad and searc...
The early news out of this week's Salesforce TrailheaDX conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center has focused on blockchain Many of us think of blockchain as the technology that prevents the counterfeiting of digital currencies like Bitcoin. However, so-called cryptocurrencies have hit the rocks recently, losing value or at least fluctuating wil...
Amazon on Wednesday announced the Echo Show 5 and began taking preorders for the device, which will begin shipping in the United States late next month This third-generation Echo Show is called the "5" because it has a 5.5-inch diagonal display.
Amazon has been reworking relationships with several of its long-time wholesale suppliers in a bid to cut costs, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The plan is to buy from larger companies instead of smaller businesses Thousands of small suppliers that sell less than US$10 million annually on Amazon's platform would lose bulk orders, while big brands like...
Social media has become a part of everyday life. Case in point: Eighty-one percent of people in the U.S. have a social networking profile, and the number of worldwide users is expected to reach 3.02 billion by 2021 Apart from the growth in the number of profiles, consumers have been devoting more of their time to engaging with social media sites. O...
GitHub has made it easier for open source developers to garner financial support as recipients of paid sponsorships GitHub Sponsors, launched in beta last week, is a new funding mechanism that enables open source users to make recurring payments, much like crowdfunding services such as Patreon and managed open source subscription services backed by...
Apple on Tuesday refreshed its iPod touch line of media players with a faster processor, greater storage capacity and improved communications features The new iPod is built on Apple's A10 Fusion chip, the same processor used in the iPhone 7. According to Apple, the power upgrade delivers two times faster performance than previous models and three t...
Chatbots have become an important part of the e-commerce shopping experience. They answer questions, provide information, and help customers along in their buying journey. Though they may never replace human beings entirely, they are central to many e-commerce-related interactions "Chat apps are effective in communicating with customers because the...
Aside from malware and viruses, nothing has the potential to be more dangerous to your computer's health than power outages. Here is how to ensure your computer keeps its boot on when a power failure turns the lights off With the approach of the turbulent summer season, it is important to know what kills the electrical lifeline, how to safeguard yo...
Brand ID is key to every company's success and growth. Why then do so many senior executives at so many different companies screw it up? When you come up with a winning brand ID, it's OK to build on it and to change it for the better, but not for the worse Customers buy from you based on your brand ID. If that changes, then customers may change th...
Linux Mint may no longer be an ideal choice for above-par performance out of the box, but it can still serve diehard users well with the right amount of post-installation tinkering The Linux Mint distro clearly is the gold standard for measuring Cinnamon desktop integration. Linux Mint's developers turned the GNOME desktop alternative into one of t...
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