Alibaba Cloud raises prices for domain name auctions amid AI compute price war Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit – the service handling the online broadcasting of the 2024 Summer Olympics – has announced that it raised prices on its domain name auction platform, as the company tries to deal with rising costs while grappling with price …
DomainTools has taken a “significant” investment from a venture capital firm, the first outside funding its received in its 20-year history. The amount of the investment is undisclosed, but DomainTools said its investor is Battery Ventures. Battery already owns stakes in numerous software and technology companies, but this appears to be its first foray into …
Microsoft Teams lose compatibility with Internet Explorer 11 from November 30 and will stop working for millions of people across the world. Microsoft Teams, the very popular web conferencing service, stopped working on Internet Explorer 11 from November 30 2020. So, if you have been using Microsoft Teams on Internet Explorer so far, to continue …
RCEP stands for “Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership,” which was signed on November 15 to cover the 10 Southeast Asian countries and South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Once ratified by member countries, the pact will formally enter into force in 2021. This pact signals Asia’s rise as an economic powerhouse, as evidenced by …
When Airbnb filed to go public in August, it seemed like a solid plan. The company was widely reported to be on an upswing from its COVID-doldrums, the public markets were hot for growth and tech shares, and the pandemic’s caseload in the United States was coming down from its summer highs. It looked great for Airbnb to …
Verisign, the domain name registry for .com and .net domain names, announced third quarter earnings after the market closed. Revenue was up 3.1% year-over-year to $318 million. The company’s topline generally moves slowly but should spike next year as it implements a 7% price hike on .com domain names. Profit increased from $154 million in …
Each day, the ICANN community comes together to develop policies that will ultimately impact how the world interacts with the Internet through its system of unique identifiers. At the heart of this important work is the ICANN multistakeholder model – a bottom-up system of governance where every stakeholder, no matter their background or experience, has an opportunity to have …
Google on Monday said it’s clarifying its policies for app makers on its Play Store marketplace, telling developers they have up to a year to get in compliance with its policies for in-app purchases. The system, which allows Google to take a 30% cut of in-app purchases, has been criticized sharply by developers who argue …
Facebook reinforces its presence in Africa Facebook is in Africa’s good books yet again and this time, the tech giant hopes to develop products made by Africans, for Africans and the rest of the world. In 2016, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria in what was his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. While the attraction …
Walmart’s latest PS5 preorders were gone in about a minute The PS5 pre-order situation has so far been a bit of a mess, and Walmart’s fresh batch of consoles at 6PM PT / 9PM ET on Thursday night did nothing to change that. They were gone in about a minute. I was able to get a …