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The £1m alleged fraud case of James Alan Craig is a salutary warning of the financial power of social media. Here’s what we know so far.
Google is responsible for search results.
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Google has lost the latest round in the ongoing defamation case about its delivery of potentially harmful search results.
The high court’s ruling has Google and other tech companies rushing to build data centers in Europe.
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The EU’s highest court invalidated a key data sharing agreement between the union and the US, exposing the deep cultural clash over privacy and surveillance.
Google-led AMP consortium is a fight-back against Apple News and Facebook Instant Pages.
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Online advertising is out of control: are Facebook’s Instant Pages, Apple News, and Accelerated Mobile Pages the answer?
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The EU is thought to be losing one trillion Euros from tax avoidance, evasion and arrears. But the latest tax reform is unlikely to fix that.
University students are protesting various issues related to transformation on campuses across South Africa.
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There is enormous potential for long term and genuine change if universities change their approach to dissent – and reinvent themselves as more agile institutions.
Bridging the gap. How to keep up with Dublin.
Alessandro Grussu
Dublin has managed to keep the money rolling in while others struggle, so what are the lessons to learn for its neighbours and rivals?
The web should expand our horizons, but instead it’s shrinking our view.
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A web obsessed with gathering data about our habits becomes less valuable to us, showing us only more and more of the same.
Google now has the unenviable task of redoing all iterations of its old logo.
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It’s not necessarily the redesign that matters – it’s when and how you unveil it.
A geomobile revolution is coming.
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There’s a global race on to harness mapping technology, delivering companies the data they need to gain a competitive advantage.
In a world that is already filled with clutter, simplicity is a strong message.
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Google has unveiled its new logo, adopting a sans-serif typeface and retaining the same colours as before. But is it better or more practical than the logo it replaces?
Ads will soon be easily blocked on iOS 9 phones.
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Online ads are already under pressure from ad blockers, so Apple’s decision to include content blocking in the upcoming iOS 9 will make things even harder for advertisers.
It’s not erasing the past, just making memories fuzzier.
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Google and the media have done their bit to try and subvert the right to be forgotten, but an ICO ruling suggests its beginning to take notice.
A woman visits the Scientific Institute in Cairo, Egypt. The role of libraries is changing but they are as relevant and important as ever.
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African libraries have more of an opportunity than ever before to bring the continent’s knowledge to the world. They just need to adapt their traditional roles and functions.
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The restructure Google should look at the world’s big challenges rather than create solutions to problems that don’t exist yet.
Google: no longer just a search engine.
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Google has become a technology giant, but it’s trying to keep its small-company ethos alive.
Google is now just one block among many.
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Google’s rebranding to become just one company under the umbrella of Alphabet could complicate things for the tech giant.
Information overload?
Leo Hidalgo
To understand the wide array of information in today’s world, we need a different kind of literacy. Some researchers call that ‘metaliteracy.’
It might look free, but you pay for it in other ways.
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Windows 10 is being offered as a free upgrade to most Windows users, but you pay for it in the information you hand over to Microsoft.
University in your pocket?
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The way schools and universities teach and test has to keep up with the way young people are processing information.