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Five for Friday is a weekly feature to give a brief roundup of our top five stories from the week that you might have missed
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Google slapped with record fine over online shopping service
Company fined €2.42 billion (£2.1 billion) after being caught abusing its power and promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results
Read More »Toshiba stock price drops – sale imminent?
Shares of the company dropped by 1.6 per cent early today to 313.2 yen (£2.22)
Read More »Dedicated voice assistants are living on borrowed time
Qualcomm’s plans are to create chips that can turn any and every speaker into a voice assistant
Read More »UK stock market rocked as investors dump ‘inflated’ technology shares
The ‘big five’ US tech firms – Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook – lost nearly $100 billion on the stock exchange on Friday
Read More »EU to give police access to cloud data in wake of terror attacks
Described as an ‘extraordinary measure for extraordinary threats’, the direct data access would give police the ability to obtain crucial data stored on sites such as Facebook and Google
Read More »Alphabet hits $1,000 share price less than a week after Amazon
Just six days after Amazon shares passed the $1,000 mark, Alphabet’s stock has followed suit
Read More »PCR Five for Friday (02/06/2017)
Five for Friday is a weekly feature to give a brief roundup of our top five stories from the week that you might have missed.
Read More »Raspberry Pi wants even more coding kids
Foundation merges with Dublin-based CoderDojo to create more kids clubs around the world
Read More »Vive announces new VR headset
Company promises that new device needs no smartphone or PC
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