Future students won’t forgive universities for poor learning technology August 17, 2020 This year’s intake of undergraduates to universities around the UK are already changing the world. It is the first time where, for most of the first year, their experiences will be fuelled by often remote, digitally-driven courses rather than the typical immersion into a physical campus. Some of the UK’s higher education institutions had some [...]
N26 staff to form works council after bank fails to break up meeting August 14, 2020 Staff at N26 have made a major breakthrough in their efforts to form a trade union after the digital bank failed to break up a meeting of employees during a dramatic day of confrontation. N26 workers today confirmed they had met and selected an electoral board, which will now begin the process of organising an [...]
Party poopers: Airbnb to limit UK bookings for under-25s August 14, 2020 Airbnb is set to restrict under-25s from booking entire properties in the UK in a bid to crack down on rowdy parties and antisocial behaviour. The trial scheme will prevent guests under the age of 25 with fewer than three positive ratings from booking entire homes near to where they live. The measures, which are [...]
Angry Birds maker Rovio gets lockdown profit boost August 14, 2020 The company behind the Angry Birds franchise has posted a huge rise in profit for the second quarter as players flocked to the hit video game during the coronavirus lockdown. The figures Rovio’s adjusted operating profit jumped 160 per cent to €13.8m (£12.5m) in the three months to the end of June. Revenue slipped 3.6 [...]
Salesforce and Oracle accused of breaching GDPR in €10bn lawsuit August 14, 2020 A class-action lawsuit has accused tech giants Oracle and Salesforce of breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in their processing and sharing of data for advertising purposes. Non-profit organisation The Privacy Collective, which filed the lawsuit, alleged the two companies are misusing consumers’ personal data through their third-party cookies Bluekai and Krux, which are [...]
Farms and our diets must embrace technological disruption August 14, 2020 Challengers, visionaries and entrepreneurs are turning their focus to the next great technology goal, and it’s one that could save the planet and transform the lives of millions: it’s the advancements in how we source our nutrition. At a time when there is fierce debate around how we build back better, one of the most [...]
Covid-19 threatens to set UK data protection back a generation August 14, 2020 There’s another crisis brewing. Millions of businesses across the UK have quickly adapted to the Covid-19 environment. While some companies have adopted technology to handle customer data collection, many have turned to more tried-and-tested track and trace systems — namely, good old-fashioned pen and paper. The hospitality industry, and especially pubs and bars, have had [...]
Apple boots Fortnite off App Store after challenge to payment rules August 13, 2020 Apple has removed Fortnite off its App Store, after the game’s creator Epic Games instituted a new way of buying in-game benefits that circumvents Apple’s rules. Epic Games has in turn initiated legal action against Apple, it said in a statement. “Apple’s removal of Fortnite is yet another example of Apple flexing its enormous power [...]
Social media news consumption drops as trust declines August 13, 2020 The number of people accessing news through social media has fallen in the last year as trust in online platforms has slipped, new figures have revealed. The proportion of Brits using social media sites to stay up to date with the latest stories slipped to 45 per cent in 2020, down from 49 per cent [...]
Bytedance weighs selling stake in Tiktok’s Indian arm to Reliance to ease app ban August 13, 2020 Tiktok parent Bytedance is said to be in talks with India’s Reliance about a investment in the operations of Tiktok in the region, as it seeks to end the government’s app ban. Conversations between the two companies began late last month but have yet to reach a deal, sources told Techcrunch. In June the Indian [...]