Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Europe’s Just Eat Takeaway to buy U.S. delivery firm Grubhub for $7.3 billion
(Reuters) - European food ordering firm Just Eat Takeaway.com NV on Wednesday announced a $7.3 billion deal to buy U.S. food delivery firm Grubhub Inc and create the world's biggest food delivery comp...
Jun 10, 2020
Amazon implements one-year moratorium on police use of facial recognition software
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it was implementing a one-year moratorium on the use of its facial recognition software by the police following backlash over the use of racially biased su...
Jun 10, 2020
U.S. lawmakers propose $22.8 billion in aid to semiconductor industry
(Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill that would provide more than $22.8 billion in aid for semiconductor manufacturers, aiming to spur the construction of ch...
Jun 10, 2020
Twitter tests new feature prompting users to open articles before sharing
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Wednesday said it was testing a new feature on Android devices that prompts users to open articles before sharing them. The social media company has been tightening its poli...
Jun 10, 2020
Inditex invests in technology to merge online with in-store shopping
MADRID (Reuters) - Zara owner Inditex unveiled a 2.7 billion euro ($3 billion) investment in technology on Wednesday to make it easier for customers to track the items they want, blurring the lines be...
Jun 10, 2020
EU watchdog sets up TikTok task force, warns on Clearview AI software
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Chinese video app TikTok's practices are to be examined by an EU task force, the bloc's privacy watchdog said on Wednesday, which also warned EU police forces agai...
Jun 10, 2020
Just Eat Takeaway in advanced talks to buy Grubhub
(Reuters) - European food ordering firm Just Eat Takeaway.com NV said on Wednesday it was in advanced talks to buy Grubhub Inc in an all-stock deal. Grubhub was also approached by ride-hailing firm Ub...
Jun 10, 2020
Congress seeks answers on Juniper Networks breach amid encryption fight
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of U.S. lawmakers preparing to fight a legislative attack on encrypted communications is trying to establish what happened when encryption was subverte...
Jun 10, 2020
Twitter, Square to make June 19 a holiday to support racial diversity
(Reuters) - Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Square Inc and Twitter Inc, said June 19, popularly known as 'Juneteenth', would be a permanent company-wide holiday in the United States to show suppor...
Jun 10, 2020
UK regulator gets more time for final ruling on Amazon’s Deliveroo deal
LONDON(Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator has given itself two more months to make a final ruling on Amazon's purchase of a minority stake in online delivery group Deliveroo so it can take ful...
Jun 10, 2020
