Author: Zach_Wilson
Google VPN is rolling out…but not to everyone VPN by Google One
Google’s new VPN is now being rolled out in the US following the company’s announcement last month that higher tier users of Google One would soon get access to the service. The search giant initially said that the service would arrive in the “coming weeks” but now just one week…
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Europe urges e-commerce platforms to share data in fight against coronavirus scams
European lawmakers are pressing major e-commerce and media platforms to share more data with each other as a tool to fight rogue traders who are targeting consumers with coronavirus scams. After the pandemic spread to the West, internet platforms were flooded with local ads for PPE of unknown and/or dubious…
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Social networks solved their 2016 election problems, but their 2020 problems are bigger
As many predicted it would, the outcome of the 2020 election is taking many days to determine. A surge of misinformation on social networks, led by President Trump and his family, has challenged social networks’ content policies and drawn fresh attention to their enforcement capabilities. It’s too early to answer…
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‘Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night’ will hit iOS and Android next month
A couple of weeks after it emerged Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was bound for mobile devices, NetEase Games and ArtPlay have revealed it'll be available sometime in December. Pre-registration for the $10 game is now open in North America, Europe… Source
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Funded by Connect Ventures, Purple Dot plans to take on Klarna-style purchase debt
In recent times startups have appeared offering credit at an e-commerce basket checkout so that a customer can buy a product without needing to pay right away. Klarna or Clearpay are the two most notable in this field. But what if you flipped the model around so that consumers could…
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French startups can apply to the Next40 and French Tech 120
Last year, the French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech unveiled an index of French startups so that it would be easier to identify them. The 40 top-performing startups get the label Next40, and the top 120 startups are grouped into the French Tech 120 — it’s a…
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