Tech

Forbes has released its 40th annual list of the 400 wealthiest people across the world and the majority are Americans.

The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on for-profit education, citing deceptive practices.

Facebook acknowledged that some users were unable to access its platforms on Friday afternoon, days after an outage knocked the social media company’s services offline for several hours.

If California has been America’s VC motherboard, Silicon Valley is the high-speed processor. But Silicon Valley’s dominance is fading, with its share of U.S. deals falling below 20 percent for the first time in history.

Melinda French Gates, already one of the world's most prominent philanthropists, will now take on the job of publisher.

Snapchat said Thursday it is ramping up efforts to identify and remove drug dealers from its platform, days after federal officials warned that counterfeit pills laced with deadly fentanyl were widely available for sale on social media apps.

Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, with a 58% share, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the United States, followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members

Facebook has faced mounting pressure from Congressional lawmakers due to a series of scandals regarding its business practices in recent years, but the negative publicity hasn’t prevented the social media giant from generating massive revenue.

An attorney for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Wednesday there was still “more to come” regarding her revelations about the company’s purported failure to address the harmful effects of its platforms.

Facebook Inc. FB +0.13% has slowed the rollout of new products in recent days, people familiar with the matter said, amid media reports and congressional hearings related to a trove of internal documents showing harms from its platforms.

It's worthwhile to ask about Facebook’s knowing contribution to our world’s problems

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is likely to turn in its best quarterly profit in three years and a record revenue, on rising memory chip prices and brisk sales of its new foldable smartphones, analysts' estimates show.

Singapore's legislature approved a bill that targets foreign influence campaigns by giving the country’s government new powers over internet content, despite criticism that officials could use them to stifle dissent.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday called out critics who have accused the tech giant of being driven by profits at the expense of public safety.

The relationship between Theranos’s founder and her top deputy left a trail of text messages that are playing an important role in her criminal fraud trial

Facebook shares recover following the massive outage and even amid harsh allegations from a whistleblower.

Will Facebook face tougher regulations? Whistleblower Frances Haugen is expected to say it is desperately needed at the congressional hearing.

GM is opening the Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center to support research and development into EV battery tech. The facility will be located at the GM Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology after a global outage caused Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp to go dark for six hours.

The Great Social Outage of 2021 isn’t without its lessons. Not only can we better prepare ourselves for the next one, but we can also identify and manage where our data lives, and spread the love of our personal networks across more services. Join me in the following steps.