Facebook tests stand-alone Workplace Chat app
The social network has quietly published a standalone Workplace Chat app to complement its existing browser-based Workplace enterprise networking service.
Stories by Peter Sayer
EU wants all online businesses to pay their taxes
Corporations can escape death for as long as they make a profit -- but they still have to pay their taxes, the European Commission has ruled in two cases involving Apple and Amazon.com. At the same time, the Commission has unveiled reforms to the way value-added tax (VAT) is collected that will affect businesses selling online across the EU.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise opens app store for factories
HPE wants to make it almost as easy for production managers to deploy new software to the factory floor as to their mobile phone.
Google has changed its Shopping ads after an EU antitrust ruling
What could be the world's most expensive store redesign opens for business today: Google's comparison shopping service. It offers online businesses new opportunities -- and new costs too.
Sigfox shows 20-cent IoT wireless module
What if every package shipped contained a $0.20 tracker chip that could report when and approximately where the package was opened?
SAP wants to embrace all your data stores with Data Hub
If data warehouses are for tidiness freaks -- information packaged into neat inferences, sorted and stacked, the rest discarded -- and data lakes are for hoarders -- tip everything in, you never know what might be useful -- then SAP's new Data Hub may be for the rest of us.
SAP buys Gigya to boost customer identity access management offering
SAP is giving its business software users a new way to track their customers, with the acquisition of customer identity management specialist Gigya.
Imagination wants to add intelligence to smartphone chips
Specialized hardware needed to accelerate machine learning algorithms is moving out of the data center and into high-end mobile phones. Soon it could be in everyone's pocket, if chip designer Imagination Technologies has its way.
Google tightens grip on Android hardware with HTC deal
Google is buying its way back into the smartphone business, almost four years after selling its stake in Motorola Mobility to Lenovo.
Here's how to fix the future of the internet, suggests ISOC
From smart but sulky light bulbs to the Chisnovian data blockade, ISOC has imagined how the future of the internet might take a wrong turn, and makes recommendations for how we can set things right.
Google appeals US$2.9 billion EU antitrust fine
Google has decided to appeal the record-breaking fine imposed on it by the European Union's highest antitrust authority in July.
Google invites private networks into its cloud
Google is offering enterprises a new way to build hybrid infrastructure, with a service that extends corporate networks into its cloud platform.
Amazon opens competition for new headquarters location
Amazon.com is inviting North American cities to bid to host its second headquarters
Intel gets second chance to appeal US$1.25B antitrust fine
The European Union's highest court has given Intel another chance to appeal a massive fine imposed in a 2009 antitrust ruling.
This drone could help inspect flooded infrastructure
A drone on show at IFA in Berlin would need no authorization from the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority to play its part in relief efforts in Houston, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey.