The Week That Was. IT and Media news week 46
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New European rules on how to limit the power and dominance of the world’s big tech companies are now in force. The EU Digital Services Act entered into force on
Europol identifying technologies used by criminals for e-commerce fraud
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E-commerce has been booming since the pandemic when we had to stay out of shops but so has also online fraud. “Even if payments online are generally very secure, mostly
The Week That Was. IT and Media news week 45
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Meta is laying off 11 000 staffers after its latest disappointing quarterly report. CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s message to staff came a year after changing the name from Facebook to Meta
The Week That Was. IT and Media news week 44
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Big advertisers put their Twitter advertising on hold waiting to see what Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media company will mean. His statements about being “a free
Researchers publish manual on fighting rumours
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“Rumours are the oldest form of mass media,” Jean-Noël Kapferer wrote in the 1990 book Rumors: Uses, Interpretations, and Images and now quoted by the Election Integrity Partnership, a nonpartisan
The Week That was. IT and Media news week 43
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Weaker advertising markets were stressed during the big tech week with quarterly reports. Apple beat analysts’ expectations. Microsoft reported revenues up close to 11% but its cloud computing business missed
The economic importance of promoting wellbeing at the workplace
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The World Health Organization estimates that poor mental health costs the global economy US$1 trillion annually in lost productivity. “Making the work more attractive, not just financially, but also in
The Week That Was. IT and Media news week 42
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Over 40% of large organizations worldwide will by 2027 use a combination of Web3, AR cloud and digital twins in metaverse-based projects aimed at increasing revenue, marketing and research firm
The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 41
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Three quarters of advertisers and marketers agree that next year budgets are under heavy scrutiny with marketers required to justify investment. 29% in a survey by World Federation of Advertisers
A third of kids signing in on social media lie about their age
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A third of children aged between 8 and 17 sign in on social media with a false date of birth so they show up as an adult user. Two-thirds of