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Source: © 123rf Streaming services remain the most subscribed subscription category, with 22% of users signing up for these platforms

ChatGPT the fastest-growing subscription-based service worldwide growing 296%

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Cybersecurity company Surfshark’s Naked People campaign in London raised awareness about social media security practices and the exploitation of user data (Image supplied)

Surfshark’s Naked People campaign calls out top social media companies for privacy invasions

2 Oct 2024

Accenture and Palantir secure $415m contract with NHS England to deploy data system

22 Nov 2023

Kirk Perry, president and CEO of IRI, will become CEO of the combined company. Source: Business Wire

IRI and NPD to merge, offering view of total retail purchasing and consumption trends

8 Apr 2022

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Smart POS terminals in service to grow by 156% by 2026

8 Jul 2021

Blockchain could play an important role in future agriculture and food security

Blockchain could play an important role in future agriculture and food security

Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Carling Bieg, Evan Fraser and Sarah Marquis 16 Apr 2021

Jeff Bezos reshaped retail as CEO of Amazon. AP Photo/John Locher

How Bezos and Amazon changed the world

Venkatesh Shankar 4 Feb 2021

Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO

Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO

3 Feb 2021

Product design to racial justice: Global plan to promote ethical AI

Product design to racial justice: Global plan to promote ethical AI

Zachary Fagenson 29 Jan 2021

How to adopt a digital innovation mindset

Werner Vogels 5 Apr 2017

European privacy watchdogs probe Facebook; EU wants to 'finalise' Google market abuse probe

European privacy watchdogs probe Facebook; EU wants to 'finalise' Google market abuse probe

17 Apr 2015

Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey

Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey

20 Mar 2015

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Alibaba opens US data centre in new challenge to Amazon

6 Mar 2015

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

25 Feb 2015

Obama ranks N Korea cyber capabilities as not so good

Obama ranks N Korea cyber capabilities as not so good

18 Feb 2015

The next global domain name-branding boom

The next global domain name-branding boom

Naseem Javed 28 Jan 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Naseem Javed 19 Dec 2014

Twitter's Anthony Noto blames the fall in users on content changes but analysts don't seem to agree and have downgraded their share prices views on the company. Image: Twitter

Time spent on Twitter falls prompting share price drop

29 Oct 2014

The loss of credit card information and the fraudulent theft from banks after the card information had been stolen is the crime that most people in the US fear. Image: Stock Image:

Credit card hacking is US's top crime fear

28 Oct 2014

Vivek Wadhwa, a Research Fellow at Stanford University says that technology has the ability to examine problems from all different sides, virtually simultaneously making it useful in efforts to stem the spread of the Ebola virus. Image:

Big data used as tool to track Ebola

27 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Satya Nadella says the investment in cloud services and the enthusiasm of users has substantiall boosted it revenue from this division. Image: Wikipedia

Microsoft's earning are pie in the cloud

24 Oct 2014

ICANN's Fade Chehade says that plans are going ahead to remove control of the internet domain names from the US Department of Commerce and involve a global group of 'stakeholders'. Image:

ICANN to be free from US control

14 Oct 2014

Harvard's David Weinberger believes that superfast internet speeds will improve everything from education to long-distance medicine. Image: Wikipedia

Ultra-fast internet connections coming

10 Oct 2014

The CDT's Joseph Hall says that online voting is difficult to achieve because the identity of the voter must be confirmed but the vote must remain anonymous. Image: CDT

Online voting still some way off

9 Oct 2014

The use of Cloud services means that piracy of music, videos and other content is rampant according to a report published in Washington. Image:

Piracy thrives through Cloud services

19 Sep 2014

Apple's Tim Cook says that new security features in iOS 8 make it impossible for Apple to scrutinise user information or for any security agency to break in without the users passcode. Image: Twitter

Apple's encryption tool locks out governments

19 Sep 2014

Yelp has been fined $450,000 by the FTC for allowing under-age children to register on its site and for not protecting their privacy. Image:

Yelp agrees to pay fine for child privacy violations

18 Sep 2014

Paedophile John Henry Skillern was arrested after Google tipped-off police about images he was send via Gmail. Image:

Google tips-off police over child porn suspect in Texas

5 Aug 2014

Canada's Communications Security Establishment claims hackers from China have broken into key strategic computers to steal sensitive, often scientific data. Image: Flickr

Canada blames China for cyber-attack on science agency

30 Jul 2014

Amy Abernethy of Duke Medicine says people need to depend less on doctors and take more control of their own health issues. Image: Duke University

Mobile technology reshapes healthcare sector

29 Jul 2014

Apple's Tim Cook says the deal with IBM will take iOS 8, the iPad and iPhone directly into the enterprise arena, boosting sales to major companies worldwide. Image: Apple

Apple, IBM to work together building business apps

16 Jul 2014

Google's Vint Cerf says that he believes the Internet will get more intuitive through the use of artifical intelligence algorithms. Image: Wikipedia

Concerns over possible 'censorship' of the internet

4 Jul 2014

Google's Eric Schmidt, working with a panel of advisers, is removing harmful content about European individuals from Google search engines based on requests received by the company. Image: .

Google starts removing information from search engines

27 Jun 2014

Oracle's President Mark Hurd says the purchase of Micros Systems will boost profitability immediately. Image:

'Big data' deal sees Oracle buy Micros Systems

24 Jun 2014