Google Cloud unveils carbon footprint tracker, open satellite imagery suite
APLHABET, Inc.’s Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, as part of a push to help companies track and cut carbon budgets.
Apple’s balancing act in China gets trickier during Xi’s crackdown
IN less than a year, China has upended the world’s largest internet sphere, throwing its biggest players from Alibaba to Tencent into a tailspin with a storm of regulatory measures to loosen their stranglehold over data and content. Yet Apple, Inc., the largest of them all and an American icon, has sailed through mostly unscathed.
Automation that combines data insights and conversational AI is improving customer experience
The customer experience journey is being enhanced nowadays through technologies that leverage data analytics and conversational automation, or the use of software robots as an extension of human customer service.
Facebook will try to ‘nudge’ teens away from harmful content
WASHINGTON — A Facebook Inc. executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful...
Tesla’s gigafactory electrifies California-Germany culture clash
By Victoria Waldersee
BERLIN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - With final approval for its German factory potentially just weeks away, Tesla's Elon Musk will make an...
Amid Facebook fracas, Australia moves to update defamation laws
By Byron Kaye
SYDNEY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Australia is moving with new urgency to redraft its defamation laws after a court ruling that publishers...
Growth in country’s data centers seen to boost jobs, investments
THE Philippines could benefit from the growth in data centers in Southeast Asia amid the rapid digital transformation due to the pandemic, Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research said.
More businesses to use digital technologies by 2022
HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd. on Wednesday said 70% of enterprises will have accelerated their use of digital technologies by next year as they strive to improve customer experience and employee productivity amid the pandemic.
Facebook outage felt acutely by small-business owners
DURING Facebook, Inc.’s global outage on Monday, online clothing boutique Exul recorded no sales for the first time since it opened last November.
E-commerce platform Zalora employs a data-driven approach to meet the demands of the fashion...
ZALORA, a fashion and lifestyle e-commerce platform, employs a data-driven approach to meet the demands of the fashion landscape in Southeast Asia (SEA). Its...
Facebook ‘operating in the shadows’ says whistleblower as U.S. lawmakers demand probes
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and...
Revamped hazard-mapping website identifies risks, safe places
The University of the Philippines Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (UP NOAH) Center unveiled on Monday the new website for Project NOAH, the Philippines’ flagship disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation project.