Apple Inc (NASDAQ AAPL) is one of the 26 businesses which have joined the government’s new SupplierPay initiative. The program is similar to the already existing “QuickPay” initiative, which makes sure federal employers pay contractors in a reasonable amount of time. The “SupplierPay” program, the White House says, is intended to be “private-sector counterpart” to…
European Union antitrust officials have started questioning rival firms about Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB)’s proposed $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, ahead of a formal review that could be a test case for how to apply EU competition law to social media. Officials at the European Commission, the EU’s central competition authority, have in…
Coming off case where Google (NASDAQ GOOG) eliminated critical blog post of big bank executive, Yelp says Google playing favorites in search results to benefit its own companies, partnerships against EU guidelines. Among Google’s first moves after being required to delist certain “irrelevant” search results was to remove a posting critical of a large bank…
A Dutch nonprofit initiative is calling on users to conduct their own Facebook (NASDAQ FB) mood experiment by quitting the site for 99 days and taking periodic happiness surveys to see whether they’re better off without it. The idea that started as a humorous undertone inside a small European advertising agency regarding Facebook Inc (NASDAQ…
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has began launching the Drive 2.0 according to thousands of people online who are noticing the difference. Google Drive 2.0 was announced in the midst of the Google IO activity. The new and improved Google Drive brings forth a much more user-friendly interface, simulating that of a regular desktop file manager. Meanwhile,…
In an interesting development on the Wall Street, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) has announced that it would be soon implementing the Digital Payment world on its own platform. Facebook has already taken relevant steps for the same and is waiting for the approval from Central Bank of Ireland so that it can initiate its services….
