Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Uber must face lawsuit claiming it stifled competition, drove out rival Sidecar
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc was ordered by a U.S. judge on Friday to face a lawsuit claiming its illegal predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices stifled competi...
May 01, 2020
Alberta to launch Canada’s first contact tracing app as economy slowly reopens
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Alberta said on Friday it would soon launch the country's first phone app to trace contacts of people infected with the coronavirus, as the coun...
May 01, 2020
Amazon, Target, Instacart workers protest on May Day
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Some workers at Amazon.com Inc, Target Corp and Instacart Inc are staging protests and sick-outs on Friday to demand a safer work environment and better pay during the corona...
May 01, 2020
Facebook warned it may lose a key seal of approval for ad measurement: WSJ
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is at risk of losing a key seal of approval that gives companies confidence they are getting what they pay for when it comes to advertising with the social-media giant, the Wa...
May 01, 2020
Tesla tumbles after tweet from Musk account saying stock too high
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Shares of Tesla Inc tumbled 10% on Friday following a tweet from Chief Executive Elon Musk's Twitter account that the electric car maker's recently high-flying stock is o...
May 01, 2020
U.S. House panel calls on Amazon’s Bezos to testify on company practices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Friday called on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to testify to the panel about "competition concerns" related to the company's...
May 01, 2020
U.S. tech company Vonage bets on digital health care in Uganda
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - U.S. cloud services company Vonage is partnering with social enterprise CTI Africa to pioneer video-linked healthcare in Uganda, where good hospitals and quali...
May 01, 2020
Call center AI firm ASAPP unveils funding as COVID-19 boosts business
By Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) - ASAPP Inc an artificial intelligence software that helps call center agents work better and faster, on Friday announced a $185 million series B funding round as the coro...
May 01, 2020
For cloud giants, usage soars but tech investment delays hobble revenue growth
By Paresh Dave and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - As lockdown orders force billions of people to work, learn and play from home during the novel coronavirus outbreak, usage has surged for the cloud comput...
May 01, 2020
Tencent buys 5% stake in Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Afterpay
(Reuters) - Chinese gaming and social media group Tencent Holdings has bought a 5% stake in Afterpay Ltd, the Australian buy-now-pay-later firm said on Friday. Tencent's shareholding in the Australian...
May 01, 2020
