Mobile and Infrastructure News
From government licensing through to ISP and infrastructure, this is our global news and commentary of all things 5G, mobile and telecommunications related.
How brands will target ads to you after the death of browser cookies
Next year, Google plans to phase out technology in its Chrome browser that lets other companies track users’ web browsing. But that does not mean you will see irrelevant ads,...
Google won’t use other web tracking tools after it removes cookies
Google will not build or use alternate tools to track web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post ...
Reliance Jio splashes out $8 billion in Indian airwaves auction
Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecoms company backed by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani and platform giants Facebook and Google, won airwaves worth about $8 billion in a $10.6 billi...
Huawei CFO’s lawyer disputes what HSBC knew as extradition case resumes
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s US extradition hearing resumed in a Canadian court with defence countering prosecutors’ claims that Meng misled HSBC about the Chinese telecom...
Apple’s 270 US-based stores open for first time since pandemic began
Apple has said all its 270 stores in the US have been opened for the first time in almost a year after it was forced to shutter several outlets because of the ongoing COVID-19 pand...
South Korean tech firms shake up Japan’s storied manga industry
Two South Korean platforms are borrowing from mobile gaming to shake up – and dominate – Japan’s manga industry, a plot twist that has expanded the comics’ ...
India tightens regulatory grip on Facebook and WhatsApp with new rules
India has announced new rules to regulate content on social media, making the likes of Facebook, WhatsApp and others more accountable to legal requests for removal of posts and sha...
Robinhood added 6 million crypto users in last two months
Controversial online brokerage Robinhood has said it has garnered 6 million new users for its cryptocurrency services in the first two months of 2021 amid higher retail trading vol...
French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with publishers
French antitrust investigators have accused Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over...
BofA: Big tech-led equity inflows fuelling ‘mother-of-all asset bubbles’
A record rush to ‘big tech’ stocks saw equity funds bagging $27.8 billion inflows last week with the ongoing ultra-easy monetary policy creating the “mother-of-al...
Big Tech’s Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House
Congressional Democrats have begun discussions with the Biden regime on ways to crack down on Big Tech. These include making social media companies accountable for the spread of di...
Epic Games takes Apple fight to European Union antitrust regulators
Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to European Union antitrust regulators after failing to make significant headway in a US court in a dispute over the Apple’s paym...
Goldman Sachs unveils Marcus Invest robo-adviser in consumer push
Goldman Sachs is launching an automated wealth-management platform to invest customer funds across managed portfolios made up of exchange trade funds for stocks and bonds, the lead...
Zuckerberg and Dorsey in talks to testify at House hearing as early as March
The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter are said to be in talks with House of Representatives lawmakers to testify at a hearing as early as next month, the Politico website has reported c...