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MOSCOW and ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Leading smart home appliance brand, Kyvol has announced the official opening of its online stores on prominent Russian e-commerce platforms Ozon and Yandex Market. From this November, the new stores will help Kyvol gain exposure to a wider audience, boosting the brand’s name and serving more customers around the country. “Our new online stores provide shoppers in Russia with easy access to all of our hottest products in one… Source link

Powers to fight disinformation spread by Russian propaganda search engines are to be included in the Online Safety Bill, i can reveal. The Government is set to amend the Bill following revelations about the website Yandex, known as Russia’s Google, which pumps out pro-Kremlin search results on issues ranging from the war in Ukraine to news items criticising the West. The listings are available to online users in the UK. On Friday,i revealed that Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Trade… Source link

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – If you’ve tried to sell something online, you know there are a lot of scammers out there looking to take your money. But one of the biggest scams isn’t after your money — it’s after your identity. It can happen when you post an item for sale on popular sites like Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or OfferUp. Scammers will pose as a buyer and text you saying they’re interested, but they say they’re concerned that you’re a scammer. A verification code then… Source link

A leader of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said he has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over data security concerns. Pictured here is the TikTok download page on an Apple iPhone on August 7, 2020. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images The Google-Facebook online ad duopoly may be breaking up. According to a study published Tuesday by Appsumer, Apple is gaining momentum in digital ads, while Google and Facebook appear to be losing steam. The… Source link

The taxi offshoot of troubled Russian tech giant Yandex has been hit by online pranksters, who yesterday ordered dozens of cabs to a single address in central Moscow, resulting in a major traffic jam. Kutuzovsky Prospekt sporting its usual weekday traffic Breaching the security defences of Yandex Taxi, a division of “Russia’s Google” Yandex, the internet intruders were then able to send available vehicles for hire to the same address. Hundreds of them, by the looks of it. Around three… Source link

Signage in a wooded area featuring a Google logo, at the Googleplex, headquarters of the search … [+] engine company Google in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, California, August 24, 2016. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Getty Images When you’re looking for a great Italian food restaurant in your neighborhood, you might think about making a quick Google search. But, at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference, Prabhakar Raghavan, a Senior Vice… Source link

Antitrust action is desperately needed to reel in the practices of Big Tech companies, especially around privacy, Google’s former head of advertising said Tuesday. Driving the news: Competition in tech is needed to ensure people are able to have private online experiences, because large companies like Google will never truly care about user privacy, Sridhar Ramaswamy said during an onstage interview with Axios in Toronto at the Collision Conference. Ramaswamy spent 15 years running Google’s… Source link

Collecting antiques is getting harder but not impossible when it involves smartphone and tablet apps. Apple and Google are limiting the availability of apps that have gone too long without an update – but the two companies aren’t being equally strict about it. For now, each allows a workaround.  Apple announced April 29 that it would consider an app neglected if it had “not been updated within the last three years” and had “not been downloaded at all or extremely few times during a… Source link

The entrance to Google’s U.K. offices in London. Olly Curtis | Future Publishing | via Getty Images The U.K.’s competition regulator has opened a fresh investigation into Google, taking aim at the company’s role in the advertising technology market. It’s the second major antitrust probe to target Google’s ad practices in the U.K. The Competition and Markets Authority launched a separate investigation with the European Union into Google and Facebook parent company Meta earlier this year over… Source link

BRUSSELS, April 23 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google, Meta (FB.O) and other large online platforms will have to do more to tackle illegal content or risk hefty fines under new internet rules agreed between European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday. The agreement came after more than 16 hours of negotiations. The Digital Services Act (DSA) is the second prong of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s strategy to rein in Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google, Meta (FB.O) and… Source link