Tag Archives: Internet

A £3bn legal action against Google over claims it secretly tracked the internet activity of millions of iPhone users has been blocked by the UK supreme court. Legal experts said the decision meant the “floodgates” remained closed to class actions on data privacy in England and Wales, although the ruling noted digital technology’s ability to cause “mass harm” to people. Richard Lloyd, a former director of the consumer group Which?, wanted to bring a US-style class action lawsuit… Source link

Gojek drivers waiting for passengers in Indonesia. afif c. kusuma | iStock Editorial | Getty Images SINGAPORE – More than 75% of the population in six major Southeast Asian countries have access to the internet and a majority of them have shopped online at least once, according to a new report from Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Company. As many as 40 million people across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand came online for the first time this year,… Source link

There’s a new Internet provider in town, and they’re on a mission to take on the Goliaths that so many of us are frustrated with, while ultimately delivering affordable, accessible Internet to billions of people. Including the underserved communities that are the hardest to reach. After routers, installations, hidden fees, upcharges, the average household in the US pays about $80/month.  Rather than using traditional fiber-optic cables that make super-fast Wifi unaffordable for low… Source link

Russia’s ultrafast grocery delivery service Yango Deli that can get goods to customers in under 15 minutes has launched in London, the company said in a press release on October 14. The service already works with customers in Russia, France and Israel and has now added four dark stores in the UK… Source link

Russia’s ultrafast grocery delivery service Yango Deli that can get goods to customers in under 15 minutes has launched in London, the company said in a press release on October 14. The service already works with customers in Russia, France and Israel and has now added four dark stores in the UK… Source link

Russia’s ultrafast grocery delivery service Yango Deli can get goods to customers in under 15 minutes has launched in London, the company said in a press release on October 14. The service already works with customers in Russia, France, and Israel and has now added four dark stores in the British… Source link

The 60 rating InvestorsObserver gives to Yandex NV (YNDX) stock puts it near the top of the Internet Content & Information industry. In addition to scoring higher than 89 percent of stocks in the Internet Content & Information industry, YNDX’s 60 overall rating means the stock scores better than 60 percent of all stocks. YNDX has an Overall Score of 60. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on YNDX! What… Source link

The developing world represents the best chance of growth for large internet companies, and today one of the very biggest set out its strategy for how it plans to tackle that. Google said that it would be investing $1 billion to support “digital transformation” across Africa. This will include landing a subsea cable into the continent to enable faster internet speeds, low-interest loans for small businesses, equity investments into African startups, skills… Source link

The Russian internet giant Yandex experienced an extreme Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for several days, in August and September. The attack recorded at about 22 million requests per second (RPS) is believed to be the largest DDoS attack in the history of the internet, according to the Russian publication Vedomosti. Cyber security company Cloudflare confirmed the attack adding that the worst volumetric DDoS attack it ever recorded was 17.2… Source link

The Russian Internet giant Yandex says it repelled the largest DDoS (denial-of-service) attack in history. The cyberattack included more than 20 million requests per second (RPS), according to the company’s blog on the website Habr.  The source of the attack was a new botnet, which Yandex named “Meris.” Yandex observed signs of the appearance of the new botnet back in late June. The company estimates that “Meris” consists of between at least 56,000 infected devices, but says the… Source link