Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The Italian Competition Authority on Thursday fined e-commerce giant Amazon $1.3 billion (1.1 billion euros) for using its dominance in the online shopping world and harming competing operators in the logistics space via its 'Fulfilment by Amazon' (FBA) service.

Billionaire Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla has reportedly updated its software that allows drivers to play video games on the center touchscreen while driving, which raises safety concerns.

After a Google Pixel smartphone user complained that he was not being able to make 911 calls from his device, the tech giant said on Thursday that a bug in the Microsoft Teams app was behind this problem.

Gary Bowser, a member of a group of hackers called Team-Xecuter, has been ordered to pay $10 million to settle a Nintendo lawsuit against him over piracy charges.

Amazon is shutting down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool "Alexa.com", which has been available for 25 years.

Twitter has acquired Slack-like messaging app Quill for an undisclosed amount to improve efficient messaging communication.

Samsung Electronics announced that the company ranked fourth out of 150 companies in the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)’s Digital Inclusion Benchmark in 2021. Samsung’s consistent, multifaceted efforts to be digitally responsible have earned the achievement from global tenth place in 2020 to fourth in this year.

Meta-owned American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram on Tuesday launched a 'Take a Break' and other safety features for teenagers.

More than 2.2 million YouTube videos were hit with copyright claims that were later overturned between January and June of this year.

Facebook Messenger Kids now offers a Dark Mode, new audio effects for voice messages, and games right in your chat thread.

Sony Japan is reportedly suspending orders for the ZV-E10, a mirrorless vlogging camera, that the company launched in August.

Uber has introduced a new in-app safety feature that will allow drivers as well as riders to record audio during trips.

Meta-owned secure messaging app WhatsApp announced that its users will now have the option to turn on disappearing messages by default for all new chats.

Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday tweeted that he is hiring Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers who are passionate about solving day-to-day problems through AI.

Online shopping giant eBay inadvertently suspended an unspecified number of users on December 3rd. The platform has since acknowledged the incident, noting that users who were accidentally suspended have received a notification so they can resolve the issue.

Due to royalties dispute, Spotify has removed the content of some of the popular comedians, including Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, John Mulaney, and Jim Gaffigan.

YouTube's dislike count has reportedly returned through a new open-source extension called "Return YouTube Dislike".

Google Photos’ Locked Folder feature is starting to roll out to non-Pixel phones.

The privacy-focused messaging app Signal has launched a new feature that allows users to make donations within the app.