
Big Tech should pay if its punters are scammed
UK government investigates
Big tech companies who carry scam adverts should be forced to reimburse victims, UK MPs have said.

Facebook faces $3.2 billion class action
UK claims it abused market dominance
Facebook faces a $3.2 billion class action in Britain over allegations it abused its market dominance by exploiting the personal data of 44 million users.

Biden meets top tech firms
Apparently they will help sort out Open source
The White House will meet executives from leading tech firms, including Google, Biggish Blue, Vole, Facebook, Jobs’ Mob, Oracle and Amazon.

Meta’s top spinner flees the building
Too many fires to put out
Meta's Vice President of Global Communications John Pinette has told colleagues that he is leaving the company, just as the company has several key PR disasters to handle.

Facebook gives up on VR and AR OS
Will lean on Google
Facebook parent company Meta has stopped development of a new software operating system to power its virtual reality devices and upcoming augmented reality glasses.

Apple poaches Facebook’s AR spinner
Feed up with drinking from one poisoned chalice picks another
Apple has poached Facebook’s communications and public relations lead Andrea Schubert for its augmented reality (AR) products.

Facebook insists that US provides enough data protection
It can be trusted with Euro data
Despite the European Union's highest court twice declaring that the United States does not offer sufficient protection for Europeans' data from American national security agencies, the social media giant's lawyers continue to disagree.

Facebook making people called meta disappear
Aussie artist says it is not fair dinkum
Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Aussie disabled artist found herself kicked off all social media and effectively invisible.

Newspapers take on big tech
They have killed local news
Newspapers all over the US have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, alleging the two firms monopolised the digital ad market for revenue that would otherwise go to local news.

Europe’s top court says Facebook can be sued by consumer groups
Privacy violations
Facebook could be sued by consumer groups for privacy violations, an adviser to Europe's top court said.