On Thursday, UK regulators initiated a competition probe into Microsoft, Google, and Amazon’s cloud computing practices. The investigation is based on a study by media watchdog Ofcom which forwarded its findings to the Competition and Markets Authority... UK Investigating AWS, Microsoft, and Google Over Anticompetitive Cloud PracticesThis entry was posted in Amazon cloud computing Microsoft and tagged google on October 5, 2023 by Nikki Main
Dropbox is no longer offering new customers unlimited cloud storage. The company says crypto miners and other dastardly individuals pooled or resold storage space. Now, none of us can have nice things.Read more... Dropbox Is Dropping Unlimited Storage, Blames Crypto MinersThis entry was posted in cloud computing cloud storage Dropbox Google-Drive and tagged google on August 25, 2023 by Kyle Barr
For once, the tech conglomerate that is Google is getting smaller, and by its own volition no less. Google said it is extricating itself from the domain name business. Its massive bank of domain names and the millions of customers who pay for them will... Google Sells Its Databank of More Than 10 Million Domain ...This entry was posted in cloud computing Sundar Pichai and tagged google on June 16, 2023 by Kyle Barr
A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used a phone spearphishing attack to pivot through multiple layers of Twitter’s security and bypassed its two-factor authentication to gain access to an internal “admin” tool […] Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermathThis entry was posted in cloud computing computer security Elon Musk Garmin privacy Security Social Startups TC Venture Capital and tagged twitter on August 4, 2020 by Zack Whittaker
Tencent, one of Asia’s most valuable companies with a current market cap of around $460 billion, has introduced a new motto after co-founder and CEO Pony Ma said this week he wanted ‘tech for good’ to be part of the company’s vision and mission in the future. The company has not yet officialized the new […] Tencent promises its technology will ‘do good’This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Asia China cloud computing Finance Social Venture Capital WeChat and tagged google social media on May 7, 2019 by Rita Liao
A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year. Remco Vermeulen found a privilege escalation bug in Western Digital’s My Cloud devices, which he said allows an attacker to bypass the admin password on the drive, gaining […] Password bypass flaw in Western Digital My Cloud drives puts ...This entry was posted in cloud computing computer security Gadgets hacking hardware Security and tagged twitter on September 19, 2018 by Zack Whittaker
A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year. Remco Vermeulen found a privilege escalation bug in Western Digital’s My Cloud devices, which he said allows an attacker to bypass the admin password on the drive, gaining […] Password bypass flaw in Western Digital My Cloud drives puts ...This entry was posted in cloud computing computer security Gadgets hacking hardware Security and tagged twitter on September 19, 2018 by Zack Whittaker
No one, it seems, has come up with a good way to harness all the videos, photos, and tweets that budding creators post every day on YouTube, or the Facebook media juggernaut, or its smaller Snap-pier rivals. Read More Social Native raises $8 million to build a new social ...This entry was posted in adsense Advertising Tech cloud computing Fundings & Exits Social SoftBank Capital TC YouTube on May 18, 2017 by Jonathan Shieber
Finnish IoT device startup The Button Corporation has launched a lower cost version of its Internet-connected button (aka, bttn), aiming to expand its appeal to US small businesses. Read More b2b IoT bttn shrinks in price for US market pushThis entry was posted in cloud computing Europe Gadgets Internet of Things TC on January 6, 2017 by Natasha Lomas
At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers’ personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potential to generate far more data — and data of a far more intimate nature — than ever before. Read More Not OK, GoogleThis entry was posted in Advertising Tech AI Apps artificial intelligence cloud computing Gadgets Opinion privacy Security TC and tagged google on October 5, 2016 by Natasha Lomas