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Amazon Says It's All Social Media's Fault For Letting Fake Review Schemes Thrive

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Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control? Amazon, which for years has ... Read more

Tiananmen Square Tank Man Vanishes From Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, Other Search Engines – Even In America

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Coincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing Thirty-two years ago, on June 4, 1989, Chines... Read more

Frontier Sued By FTC, Six States For Allegedly Over-promising, Under-delivering Broadband

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ISP denies wrongdoing, notes how difficult it is to get wires to rural areas ISP Frontier Communications was sued on We... Read more

Intel Laid Me Off For Being Too Old, Engineer Claims In Lawsuit

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'If you think age is an advantage in this job, you are mistaken' A former Intel engineer, laid off in 2015, has sued th... Read more

Compliance Norms Eased For Companies, Market Participants Amid Covid Crisis

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The securities market regulator SEBI has relaxed several compliance norms for listed companies and market participants Read more

Appeals Court Nixes Online Blueprint Sharing Ban On 3D-printed 'ghost Guns'

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Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so A federal appeals court in America has overturned a district... Read more

OK So What's Going With These Millions Of Pentagon-owned IPv4 Addresses Lighting Up All Of A Sudden?

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Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all The unexplained awakening ... Read more

You've Got It Down Pat: Intel Boss Says 2020 Was So Strong, A 20% Drop In Data Center Sales Now Is To Be Expected

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Server chip business doldrums blamed on 'digestion' Intel on Thursday reported first-quarter 2021 revenue of $19.7bn, w... Read more

Capgemini Scores £150m Contract To Help Student Loan Company Overcome Its IT Problems 5 Years After £50m Superfail

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Fragmented, inflexible estate? Reach for French outsourcers Capgemini has won a £150m contract with the Student Loan C... Read more

Privacy Purists Prickle At T-Mobile US Plan To Proffer People's Personal Web, App Pursuits To Ad Promoters

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Moz urges ISPs told to commit to opt-in data usage – as if one more scolding might make a difference in decades of op... Read more

UK.gov Awards Seats On £2bn 'digital Outcomes' Framework To Suppliers – One Of Which Doesn't Even Have A Website

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'We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Commercial Agreement' The UK government has made a £2bn co... Read more

Uncle Sam Sues Facebook For Allegedly Discriminating Against US Workers In Favor Of Foreigners On H-1B Visas

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Ad biz supposedly barely advertised jobs to staff if a visa worker applied The US Department of Justice on Thursday fil... Read more

Fan Manufacturers Want GST For Sector To Be Lowered To 5% From 18%

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Indian fan manufacturers on Thursday sought lower GST rate at 5 per cent on fans, saying the existing 18 per cent tax is... Read more

TRAI Issues Rules For Clear Communication Of Tariff Plans, Terms By Telcos

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TRAI issued a fresh set of rules for publication and advertisement of tariff plans by telcos, in a bid to boost transpar... Read more

Shocking No One, Not Enough Foreigners Applied For H-1B Visas This Year So US Govt Ran A Second Lottery

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So surprising, what with the pandemic and Uncle Sam being so welcoming for immigrants right now Too few H-1B hopefuls a... Read more

Lock Down Your Data – Or Get The Cheque Book Out: ICO Privacy Violation Fines Are Rising, Say Lawyers

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You can thank GDPR for that Violating Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules is a costly mistake that... Read more

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses... But Not Your H-1B Geeks, L-1 Staffers Nor J-1 Students

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US freezes visa applications until the end of the year, cites COVID-19-sparked unemployment President Donald Trump has ... Read more

Six Ways Economies Can Tackle The Wealth Divide

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Rising economic inequality will remain a pressing global problem in 2019 - it drags down growth and destabilises societ... Read more