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Google, Facebook Contractors Still Expected On Site Amid Outbreak While Full-Time Staff Works Remote Google

Google, Facebook Contractors Still Expected On Site Amid Outbreak While Full-Time Staff Works Remote

Photo: GettyThe tumultuous divide between full-time staff and contract workers at Facebook and Google has come to a head recently, with this distinction now purportedly determining who deserves to work from home amid an ongoing global pandemic.Throughout this week, several big names in tech have begun recommending that their workforce…
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March 13, 2020
Uninstall These VPN and Ad-Blocking Apps That Spied on Your iPhone or Android Google

Uninstall These VPN and Ad-Blocking Apps That Spied on Your iPhone or Android

A recent Buzzfeed investigation discovered that several popular VPN and adblocking apps for Android and iOS secretly collected user data and sent it to Sensor Tower, a cross-platform data analytics service for app developers. The snooping apps include:Adblock Focus (Android and iOS)Free and Unlimited VPN (Android)Luna VPN (Android and iOS)Mobile…
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March 11, 2020
Google Asks All U.S. Staff to Work From Home as COVID-19 Spreads Google

Google Asks All U.S. Staff to Work From Home as COVID-19 Spreads

Google’s NYC offices, March 2018.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Google has asked all of its North American employees—well over 100,000, counting all those working under parent company Alphabet, and a similarly massive number of contractors—to work from home due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.The request applies…
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March 11, 2020
Are Apple and Google Illegally Crushing Competitors? Experts Opinions Clash Before Congress Google

Are Apple and Google Illegally Crushing Competitors? Experts Opinions Clash Before Congress

Customers wearing protective facemasks visit an Apple store in Hong Kong on February 22, 2020.Photo: Vivek Prakash (GettyA Senate subcommittee on Tuesday took aim at what one witness described as a “dire threat” to the digital marketplace—the processes by which “platform monopolists” such as Google allegedly maintain a stranglehold over…
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March 11, 2020
This Week in Apps: Google I/O canceled over coronavirus, App Store gets updated rules, TikTok’s owner launches Spotify rival Google

This Week in Apps: Google I/O canceled over coronavirus, App Store gets updated rules, TikTok’s owner launches Spotify rival

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019,…
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March 7, 2020
Apple and Google are cracking down on coronavirus apps to combat misinformation Google

Apple and Google are cracking down on coronavirus apps to combat misinformation

Both Apple and Google have begun cracking down on apps related to the coronavirus, according to a new report from CNBC. App developers who spoke with the news organization say Apple is rejecting any and all coronavirus-related mobile software not from recognized health organizations or the government. CNBC also reports…
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March 6, 2020