Financial Times
China forces out local employees of US news organisations
China has forced local staff to quit their jobs at a number of US media organisations operating in the country, dealing another blow to news groups caught in a diplomatic stand-off between Beijing and Washington. Apparently at least five Chinese citizens working for the New York Times and Voice of America have been fired this week by the Beijing Service Bureau for Diplomatic Missions.
Facebook executives allegedly ‘knew for years’ about misleading marketing metric (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 03/21/2020 - 07:26European Union warns of broadband strain as millions work from home (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 16:10UK broadband can cope with surge in home work, says BT (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 03/16/2020 - 15:55The not-so-hidden skeletons in our smartphones (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 03/11/2020 - 11:21Special Report: Education and Technology (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/10/2020 - 09:14Sens Sanders and Warren scare Big Tech but thrill its workers (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 03/02/2020 - 13:47Opinion: EU should regulate Facebook and Google as ‘attention utilities’ (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 03/02/2020 - 09:17
World wide web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee scales up efforts to reshape internet
Inrupt, the start-up company founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to redesign the way the web works, is expanding its operational team and launching pilot projects in its quest to develop a “massively scalable, production-quality technology platform.” Berners-Lee said there had been a “rush of interest” from open source developers, entrepreneurs, tech company executives, and government officials to support Inrupt’s mission to decentralise the web and hand power back to users. But Inrupt now had to focus on the complexities of turning its underlying Solid technology into a scalable platform.