Facebook and Google are spending billions trying to get more people online in Africa, but the Internet giants are facing a backlash from governments worried about technology being used to remove them from power.
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The cookie is dead. Long live the cookie. Google said this week that it’s done tracking us as we skate around the Web and promises that it won’t adopt replacements that essentially do the same thing.
One of the last big hurdles in the way of the rapid commercial deployment of television white spaces Internet access technology in South Africa has fallen.
Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what they don’t highlight is their role in making almost everything else we consume online more expensive.
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Google will not build or use alternate tools to track Web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the Web – and made a mint from – without paying a penny.
The architect of Australia’s laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay media companies for content claimed victory on Wednesday though critics said last-minute changes favoured Big Tech.
Facebook’s dramatic move to block Australian news-sharing has escalated a broader battle against global regulation. That gambit looks likely to backfire.
When prospectors made what was the biggest oil discovery in history at Texas’s Spindletop well in 1901, the world’s premier oil monopolist was absent from the scene.