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After decades of illegally crushing competition at the expense of consumers and small businesses, the four “Big Tech” giants—Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple—are finally facing their antitrust comeuppance in Washington. In Congress, a bipartisan coalition has formed in support of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICO), which would ban Big Tech companies from unfairly giving t...

Google always finds a unique way to highlight important days and events by posting illustration through the doodle. As people celebrated Canada Day 2022 on July 1, Friday, Google doodle featured a special image that included the natural wonders of Canada to acknowledge the land which has been a beautiful home to the Canadians. Happy Canada Day 2022! Canadians observe their national day on Jul...

It’s been more than four months since Brittney Griner, the two-time Olympic champion and Phoenix Mercury star, was detained at a Russian airport and held on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for a Russian team. Since February, she has been confined in a prison in Khimki Oblast, a Moscow suburb, writing letters to fellow WNBA athletes and keeping in touch with her wif...

Ferdinand Ekechukwu For a fact, a couple of their close friends in the industry knew Funke Akindele and her estranged husband, Abdulrasheed Bello – JJC Skillz – have been living apart. As it were, there was this seeming disconnect between both at the 2022 AMVCA award ceremony in May where Funke took home the award for Best Actress in a comedy role. Quite unlike the award winning actress, her ...

Fraud report says Florida ranks 2nd in nation in tech impostor fraud Florida residents beware: The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is collecting data on so-called tech support imposters which indicates a wave of senior victims in Florida. The IC3 Elder Fraud Report ranks Florida second in the nation in tech impostor scams with 9,645 individuals 60 years and older falling victim to f...

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Internet users have been left horrified by troubling Nazi images that show up in a simple Google search. The issue was raised by writer and Twitter user Jason Pargin on Friday when he discovered searching Google Images with the seemingly innocuous term “desk ornament” leads to disturbing content. Google users who search this specific phrase are shown rows of pictures not of standard desk orna...

Fraudsters using Facebook and Instagram are responsible for more than eight in ten of all online investment scams, one of Britain’s biggest banks has revealed. TSB, which has 5.4 million UK customers, has demanded that Mark Zuckerberg’s internet giant Meta should be made “directly responsible for fraud” — including paying redress directly to British victims — along with other social media com...

As we move into the digital age, it’s more important than ever to ensure your business is taking advantage of all the online marketing opportunities available. SEO is one of the most effective ways to reach new customers and grow your business, but there are so many different aspects to it that it can be hard to know where to start. In this blog post, we’ll outline the different types of SEO ...

Eight-year-old Lalani Erika Walton wanted to become “TikTok famous.” Instead, she wound up dead. Hers is one of two such tragedies that prompted a linked pair of wrongful death lawsuits filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the social media giant. The company’s app fed both Lalani and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, 9, videos associated with a viral trend called the blackout chall...