French company Thales plans to buy (parts of) Atos, a cybersecurity business dealing with IT consultancy. The potential $3 billion deal is a move by Thales to test the political determination for consolidating France’s cybersecurity defenses. Thales is Europe’s largest defense electronics co... Read more
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Island, a Dallas-based startup, introduced itself to the broader world today by releasing a web browser designed to give enterprises the kind of security they need while remaining simple to use and familiar. The browser, aptly named Enterprise Browser, embeds all the needed security and requirem... Read more
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The global supply chain crunch has affected almost every industry, including smartphones. Now, it affects the antennas that propagate the signals those phones need. Vantage Towers AG, a unit spun out of Vodafone Group, makes mobile masts and has said its plans to build new towers are facing issu... Read more
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A new report by Deepgram and Opus Research shows that 77% of companies are leveraging voice technology to find new business opportunities while 62% are using it to make more profit. 2021’s report looked at how companies of all sizes used voice technologies built on Automatic Speech Recognition... Read more
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Bloomberg News reported late on Monday that the US antitrust review of Microsoft's $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., the maker of Call of Duty will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The report cited someone familiar with the matter. The FTC, not the ... Read more
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The Conseil d’Etat, France’s supreme administrative court, said on Friday that it upholds a decision by a regulator to fine Google 100 million euros for breaches connected to its cookies policy. The fine, which was issued by France’s CNIL data protection authority, was found to be proporti... Read more
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Google is putting together a digital assets team to help its cloud customers build blockchain-based apps, according to a Thursday report. Richard Widmann, the head of strategy for digital assets at Google Cloud, spoke to CNBC and said the company plans to hire several people with blockchain experti... Read more
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Facebook’s WhatsApp has been given until the end of next month to explain changes to its privacy policy and whether it complies with Eu consumer protection laws. According to the European Commission, the move comes after complaints by consumer groups. The European Consumer Organization (BEUC) ... Read more
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Portnox, a network security startup, officially known as Access Layers, announced on Thursday that it has closed a $22-million funding round. The Series A investment was led by Elsewhere partners and is going to fuel growth plans by the startup. Large companies can have corporate networks spanni... Read more
2 years ago
The Google Workspace Update blog reported that Google Workspace customers will now be able to add custom watermarks to a Google Doc and even customize background text markers/identifiers. The ‘Watermark’ tab in the ‘Insert’ drop-down allows users to choose an image as their watermark or ... Read more
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