Technology

Chinese companies that want to sell shares in the United States should make more disclosures about potential risks.Friday's announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission came after Beijing announced that it would increase its oversight of Chinese companies listed...

Twitter is deleting its fleets of tweets after they failed to catch on.The company started testing twitters that disappeared after 24 hours in March last year in Brazil. Fleets were created to address concerns raised by new users who may be put...

First time, the Federal Trade Commission banned a company making stalkerware -- software that is used to secretly track the location of a cell phone user -- from being in the surveillance app industry.Wednesday's action is for the SpyFone...

The Data Protection Authority of the Netherlands said Thursday that TikTok was fined 750,000 euros ($885,000) because it did not provide a privacy statement. This is because many children who use the video-sharing app will be unable understand the...

Thursday's announcement by the European Union would require that the smartphone industry adopt a standard charging cord for mobile devices. This could end the all-too-familiar experience with digging through tangled cables in order to find the right one.The European...

A Kenyan security guard currently facing charges in Qatar after composing persuasive, anonymous reports of being a low-paid worker there found himself targeted by a phishing attack that would have shown his place just before his arrest, analysts say.While...

Snopes.com's co-founder and CEO has admitted plagiarising from numerous articles published by major news outlets over many years. He called the plagiarism "serious lapses of judgment."From 2015 to 2019 -- and possibly even earlier -- David Mikkelson included material...

Federal regulators intensified their antitrust attacks on Facebook. A revised complaint was filed Thursday by federal regulators. They claim that Facebook used a laser-focused strategy in order to "buy or burrow" competitors to suppress competition.The Federal Trade Commission made...

Spanish authorities claim that John McAfee was ordered to be autopsied by a judge. He was a gun-loving anti-virus pioneer, crypto promoter, and occasional politician who died while in prison awaiting extradition to the United States.According to a Catalonia...

Practices employed by the search engine giant to market advertisements"interrupts Google's opponents" together with publishers of cellular websites and software, the Competition Authority said Monday. It's the obligation of a firm with a dominant market position to prevent undermining...