‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard Mike Lynch, the technology tycoon, once dubbed Britain’s Bill Gates, has spent the past 10 months in San Francisco, with a GPS bracelet strapped to his ankle and two armed guards monitoring …
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Company denied that Tim Cook deceived investors when he said iPhone sales were strong weeks before revenue warning Apple has agreed to pay $490m to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging chief executive Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company’s revenue …
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Senators have indicated they will take their time to decide on the bill that would force China-based ByteDance to divest from the app US senators want the chamber to take its time in deciding whether to back a House of Representatives bill that would force China-based ByteDance to divest from the short video app TikTok …
Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attack Business live – latest updates McDonald’s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have been hit by a “technology outage”, as the fast food chain denied it had been hit by a cybersecurity attack. Services in Australia, …
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Ex-treasury secretary tells CNBC of plans a day after US House passes bill giving app’s owner six months to divest or face US ban The House passed a TikTok bill. Will the US really ban the app? Steven Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to try to buy TikTok, he told CNBC on Thursday. …
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Every child interviewed by media watchdog had watched violent material on the internet Violent online content is now “unavoidable” for children in the UK, with many first exposed to it when they are still in primary school, research from the media watchdog has found. Every single British child interviewed for the Ofcom study had watched …
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Ivory Coast, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso among countries experiencing outages Much of west and central Africa has been left without internet service, as operators of several subsea cables reported failures. The cause of the cable failures on Thursday was not immediately clear. Continue reading… Ivory Coast, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso among …
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Court documents and interviews detail the products’ role in alleged exploitation – and how some payments go undetected When police in Pennsylvania arrested 29-year-old Jennifer Louise Whelan in November 2022, they charged her with dozens of counts of serious crimes, including sex trafficking and indecent assault of three young children. One month earlier, police said …
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Those who – like me – have spent years looking for love on a six-inch screen know the pitfalls of these platforms On Valentine’s Day this year, a lawsuit was brought by six people in the US against Match Group, the company behind dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Match. The suit blames dating …
Friedemann’s bite-sized building sim is like a massage for my brain, and I found myself living through my best holiday memories Imagine an idyllic vacation. Where is your mind wandering? A Tolkienian pastoral glade? Maybe a terracotta cottage in a dusty desert? A lifetime of small-town living leaves me longing for a busy city apartment …
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