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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Wednesday that it planned to lift its ban on political advertising across its network, resuming a form of digital promotion that has been criticized for spreading misinformation, falsehoods and inflaming voters.The social network said it would allow advertisers...
Source is New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Wednesday that it planned to lift its ban on political advertising across its network, resuming a form of digital promotion that has been criticized for spreading misinformation, falsehoods and inflaming voters.The social network said it would allow advertisers...
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a number of measures relating to the technology sector as part of the government's spring Budget, focused on areas such as digital skills, new visas for highly-skilled entrepreneurs and new IT funding to improve tax collection, as well as the possibility...
Source is New York Times
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.This software sales job isn’t really in Remote, Ore., a tiny town 200 miles south of Portland. This internship isn’t either. This job is probably not in...
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CIOs and chief technology officers (CTOs) have always championed the value that technology brings, with improved efficiencies, forecasting and operations being some of the biggest benefits foretold.
But technologists are applying software and hardware capabilities in increasingly lateral ways, meaning tech is no longer the preserve...
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Employees at software startup Glitch have signed a collective bargaining agreement with the company via their union, which claims this is the first time such a deal has been signed by white-collar tech workers in the US.
The agreement, which took effect on 28 February 2021...
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The Covid-19 pandemic caused huge spikes in online sales growth for smaller retail businesses, according to data from online retail industry association IMRG.
Speaking at eCommerce Expo’s virtual 2021 event, Andy Mulcahy, strategy and insight director at IMRG, said that while there was also online growth...
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UK-based digital archiving provider Arkivum is one of three providers selected for a €4.8m second prototyping phase of the European multinational Archiver project, which aims to provide petabyte-scale data archiving and preservation for its scientific partners.
The project is led by CERN – home of the...
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Recruitment firm Hays has written to HM Treasury to demand that the roll-out of the IR35 private sector reforms be postponed for another year, as firms are already struggling to cope with the ongoing fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The letter, dated 23 February 2021, calls...
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Virgin Media has conducted a trial of network acceleration technology, which it claims could pave the way to multi-gigabit broadband speeds in the future.
The trial, delivered on the operator’s network in Reading, saw Virgin Media install prototype Infinera XR Optics technology in its network. The...
