WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is planning to hold a conference to discuss the future of a federal law which largely exempts online platforms from legal liability for the material their users post, sources familiar with the plans said on Fr... More »
MOGOSOAIA, Romania (Reuters) – “Repeat after me! To be together with who I want,” a family of Romanian witches chant via a video call to a client in India paying for a love spell. The session, in a decorated shed in a back yard 15 km (9 miles) north of Buchare... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow and two other cities on Sunday to rally against tighter internet restrictions, in some of the biggest protests in the Russian capital in years. Lawmakers last month backed tighter internet co... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – A three percent tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield 500 million euros (568.5 million pounds) per year, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. Le Maire told Le Parisien newspaper the tax is aimed a... More »
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – When Danny Reagan was 13, he began exhibiting signs of what doctors usually associate with drug addiction. He became agitated, secretive and withdrew from friends. He had quit baseball and Boy Scouts, and he stopped doing homework and sh... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s internet regulator said on Friday the recently published rules governing financial information providers are aimed at firms supplying information to an institutional audience and to specific investors, rather than the general public... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is working to develop consumer data privacy policies, and the Commerce Department is meeting with big companies like Facebook Inc, Comcast Corp and Alphabet Inc as it looks to eventually seeing the policies enshr... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Germany’s telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG is seen before the company’s annual news conference in Bonn, Germany, March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The billionaire founder of United Interne... More »
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Rifle Association (NRA) o... More »
Alan Gross and his wife Judy face a news conference in Washington hours after his release from Cuba on December 17, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque HAVANA (Reuters) – When Alan Gross heard the Trump administration’s renewed U.S. push to expand internet in Cuba, d... More »
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal has joined hands with China to offer internet services to its citizens, officials said on Friday, ending India’s decades-long monopoly of the Himalayan nation’s cyber connectivity network. For years, Nepal depended on Indian telecom... More »
Chairman Ajit Pai drinks coffee ahead of the vote on the repeal of so called net neutrality rules at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they will force a ... More »
A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in Singapore in this January 2, 2014 photo illustration. REUTERS/Edgar Su BEIJING (Reuters) – China has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 fo... More »
FILE PHOTO: Fiber optic cables carrying internet providers are seen running into a server room at Intergate.Manhattan, a data center owned and developed by Sabey Data Center Properties, during a tour of the facility in lower Manhattan, in New York, March 20, 2... More »
Australia's government-built $36 billion broadband network, already under attack from underwhelmed customers, has found a new and formidable enemy - cockatoos are chewing through cables across the country. More »
The founder of an oil and gas networking website who pleaded guilty to hacking a rival site he had created and sold to DHI Group Inc was sentenced to one year and one day in prison on Friday. More »
Internet giants, including Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O), are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in Washington. More »
FILE PHOTO – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) logo is seen before the FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington February 26, 2015. A group representing major technology firms including Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) urged the U.S. Fed... More »
A Somali Optical Networks (SOON) technician checks a satellite dish at their headquarters in Mogadishu Somalia, July 12, 2017. A severed marine cable has left Somalia without internet for weeks, triggering losses for businesses, residents said, and adding a la... More »
File Photo: The Discovery Communications headquarters building is seen in Silver Spring, Maryland December 3, 2009. REUTERS/Brad Bower/File Photo Discovery Communications Inc and Time Warner Inc’s Turner are taking the unusual step of streaming full episodes o... More »
China’s cyberspace authorities have ordered internet companies to close 60 popular celebrity gossip social media accounts in the latest in a series of crackdowns on independent media. More »
A logo of Emaar is seen near the Dubai Mall March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah Emaar Malls will buy a 51 percent stake in e-commerce fashion website Namshi from Global Fashion Group, a firm backed by Rocket Internet, for $151 million, a sign of growing dem... More »
A girl broadcasts at Three Minute TV, a live streaming talent agency in Beijing, China, February 15, 2017. Picture taken February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Jing Qi, a part-time presenter on the live streaming platform Huajiao, underwent cosmetic surgery i... More »
An illustration picture shows a network cable next to a pack of smartphones in Berlin, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski President Donald Trump plans to sign a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules as a bigger fight looms over rules governing the op... More »
A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in Singapore in this January 2, 2014 photo illustration. REUTERS/Edgar Su ( China is proposing a further tightening of controls over the internet with the possible est... More »
FILE PHOTO – Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Hefei, Anhui province March 16, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer China has set up a 100 billion yuan ($14.55 billion) fund to support investment in the internet sector, said official news agency Xinhua on Sunda... More »
People pose for pictures during the third annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen town of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China November 16, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo China’s ambitions to tighten up regulation of the Internet have found a second wind in... More »
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to the crowd as he presides over a mass rally and parade in the capital’s main ceremonial square, in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo Chinese websites have again blocked searches for “F... More »
German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom appears in an Auckland court, December 23, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Cameron An appeal by flamboyant German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom over a decision to extradite him to the United States began in New Zealand on Monday, with th... More »
By Harry Pearl and Charlotte Greenfield | SYDNEY SYDNEY German tech entrepreneur and alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom will seek a review of a Federal Court decision which rejected his bid to keep hold of millions of dollars in assets held in Hong Kong and Ne... More »
WASHINGTON A federal appeals court said on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could not block two states from setting limits on municipal broadband expansion, a decision seen as a win for private-sector providers of broadband internet and a s... More »
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON Some of the web’s biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process. The move is a major step forward for inte... More »
BEIJING China’s internet regulator said on Saturday that search engines should tighten management of paid-for ads in search results, making clear which results are paid-for and limiting their numbers. The Chinese government already exercises widespread control... More »
WASHINGTON A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark net neutrality rules, a big boost to the Obama administration and a blow to internet service providers in a ruling that could determine how consumers access cont... More »
PARIS Three French anti-racism associations said on Sunday they would file legal complaints against social networks Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and Google’s Youtube (GOOGL.O) for failing to remove “hateful” content posted on their platforms. French law r... More »
(Reuters Health) – While many forms of e-cigarette advertising increase the odds that teens will try the devices, a new U.S. study suggests that this generation of digital natives is most enticed by promotions they see online. Big U.S. tobacco companies are al... More »
BEIJING China’s online censorship system protects national security and does not discriminate against foreign companies, the country’s internet regulator said, after the United States labeled the blocking of websites by Beijing a trade barrier. The U.S. Trade ... More »
JAKARTA Global Internet-based firms could have their services blocked in Indonesia if they do not obtain “permanent establishment” status in the country and pay Indonesian tax, government officials said on Monday. Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told rep... More »
BANGKOK Thailand’s military government will try to persuade media companies Facebook and Line to comply with court orders to remove content it considers harmful to peace and order, a senior official said Sunday. The junta-appointed NRSA advisory council plans ... More »
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) has decided that Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, should not start on a Monday anymore. The world’s largest retailer by revenue will, for the first time this year, launch all its Cyber Monday deals on the S... More »
The New York attorney general is probing whether three major Internet providers could be short-changing consumers by charging them for faster broadband speeds and failing to deliver the speeds being advertised, according to documents seen by Reuters. The lette... More »
UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a host of celebrities kicked off a campaign on Saturday to make Internet access universal, saying this was critical to fulfilling the United Nations’ newly adopted agenda to com... More »
