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Telefonica posted a 10% fall in 2020 earnings on Thursday and while the Spanish telecoms group expects the business to stabilise this year, it plans to lower its dividend. Telefonica, like its European peers, was struggling to post strong growth even before the pandemic struck, is focusing on stoking growth in Brazil, Britain , Spain and Germany and selling some assets to cut debt and fund an upgrade to next-generation 5G networks. Earnings improved later in the year as the initial impact of the health crisis and lockdowns eased, but the company still calculated it had lost 977 million euros in operating income due to lower service revenue and handset sales. Operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA) fell 10% to 13.5 billion euros including a 1.2 billion-euro hit from unfavourable exchange rates. In response Telefonica lowered its proposed dividend on 2021 earnings to 0.30 euros per share from the 0.40 euros it paid for 2020. CEO Jose … [Read more...] about Telefonica cuts dividend as pandemic crimps 2020 earnings

A Berlin resident has been found guilty of threatening to bomb a hospital and attempting to blackmail the UK's National Health Service (NHS) for £10 million in Bitcoin (BTC). Security 30,000 Macs infected with new Silver Sparrow malware Cyber security 101: Protect your privacy from hackers, spies, and the government The best antivirus software and apps The best VPNs for business and home use The best security keys for two-factor authentication Phishing tricks crooks use to make you open malware email attachments (ZDNet YouTube) Emil Apreda, previously only identified as Emil A. due to German law, is a 33-year-old Italian and resident of Berlin, Germany, with a background in computing. On Friday, the presiding judge in the District Criminal Court of Berlin convicted Apreda and sentenced him to three years in prison. Apreda was accused of sending emails to the NHS between April and June 2020, in which he threatened to detonate a bomb in an … [Read more...] about Berlin resident jailed for threatening to bomb NHS hospital unless Bitcoin ransom was paid

With a massive digital population, the Indian market is just too important for the likes of Facebook. The Ministry of Electronics & IT in a press statement revealed some numbers that prove Facebook is the most dominant social media company in India with the largest user base. The five most popular social media platforms in India are WhatsApp, YouTube , Facebook, Instagram and Twitter . Not to forget, Facebook owns WhatsApp and Instagram, making it the largest and most influential platform. The ministry in its statement said that WhatsApp has 53 crore users in India while YouTube ranks second with 44.8 crore users. Facebook and Instagram have 41 crore and 21 crore users respectively while Twitter merely has 1.75 crore users. If you are still wondering why Facebook wants to cross-share platform analytics among WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram by updating privacy policies, it totally makes business sense. If these numbers are to be considered, then every Indian may … [Read more...] about The numbers that prove India is too ‘important’ for Facebook

When Tim Berners-Lee set the specifications of URLs, HTTP, and HTML protocols for the world wide web, he set off how information would be shared on the internet. In fact, the foundation and spread of the internet has come from the free sharing of internet links across a free and open internet. The sharing and compensation of these links is at the heart of the battle among governments and news publishers with the digital giants. Prime Minister declares Australians should be in charge, not tech giants Featured This chart shows the connections between cybercrime groups The best tax software for small businesses and personal preparation How to build a website: What you need to get started Best VPN services: Safe and fast don't come free Over the past few weeks, the digital giants (i.e. Google and Facebook) have faced a standoff over how news organizations and their content would be compensated for access to social media networks as well as search engines. … [Read more...] about Nations vs digital giants: The battle over news access and who gets paid

Baby bats babble just like newborn human babes, a new study finds. Babbling is thought to be a kind of vocal play that provides human infants a chance to train their vocal tract muscles in preparation for speech and to practice combining the syllables they will use as adults. Humans begin babbling at about 7 months of age. Apart from a few other primates, like the pygmy marmoset, babbling has never been observed in any other mammals until now. However, certain species of songbirds are known to engage in a similar behavior, called "subsong." Barking pups Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg in Germany recorded vocalizations from male and female sac-winged bat ( Saccopteryx bilineata ) pups aged 4 to 8 weeks and found that pups of both sexes uttered barks, chatters and screeches similar to those made by adult bats. [ Audio ] The study also found that both male and female pups made additional sounds—including whistles, trills and snippets of … [Read more...] about Baby Bats Babble Like Human Infants