Last year, facebook said that it plans to boost its team of moderators by more than 3,000. And google says itll increase the number of people monitoring content to a total of ten thousand. Meanwhile twitter has already removed around a million accounts related to terrorism. Its a pressing issue for governments around the world for example germany can now Fine Companies over 60 Million Dollars if they fail to take down extremist material. Elsewhere in the uk, senior ministers have suggested the tech giants could face punitive taxes if they fail to do more in the fight against terrorism. With me is mike weston, founder of radiate b2b good morning. It is a very tricky one, isnt it, there is no clear right or wrong here on how to monitor and remove material is it enough when facebook, twitter, youtube say they are boosting the numbers of those monitoring . youtube say they are boosting the numbers of those monitoring . I think it is very difficult to determine what constitutes an offer. Ho
To stay on hold of a record low of 0. 25 . And the company that created photoshop, well be speaking to the boss of the Software Firm adobe, shantanu narayen. Today we want to know, do you use snapchat . What do you use it for . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. I know that tanya is a user of snapchat, i have seen the selfies and we start with snap, the Company Behind the messaging app snapchat. It lets you send photo messages that disappear after a few seconds. But it seems the confidence of investors has gone missing almost as fast. Snaps shares plunged in after hours trading on its first set of Financial Results since that huge Flotation Back in march. Snap lost 2. 21 billion in the first three months of the year. Thats way more than the same time last year. Why . Well, mostly because of huge pay outs to staff with Stock Options in the flotation. But heres the number investors are really looking at. By the end of march 166 Million People were using snapchat every day. Tha
No more Life In The Fast Lane for your web search . Check your Internet Speed today, as many major websites are on a go slow in protest at us plans to scrap Net Neutrality rules. The boss of us Bankjp Morgan chase warns that what happens to Banking Jobs In London after brexit is no longer in the hands of the uk government. Welcome to World Business report. Im rachel horne. In a minute, rico will tell us about an interesting deal in the music streaming world. But first get ready to take a deep breath when you go online today because some of the most popular websites will be running slowly. Companies like facebook, netflix, and amazon are taking part in a protest against changes being made to us rules which govern Net Neutrality. Our north America Technology correspondent dave lee explains. Right now all Internet Traffic is treated the same, no matter it has come from, where it is going, what it is doing, that is something we call Net Neutrality. Without It Campaigners worry Internet Ser
With a lawsuit for fraud. Shares of the owner of snapchat plunged 14 after the social media firm reported more than 400m in quarterly losses and fewer than expected users. Hello and welcome to World Business report. My name is susannah streeter. In a minute well look at the very expensive business of having a baby. But first, ride sharing giant ubers horrible 2017 continues. In june its co founder, Travis Kalanick, was ousted as Chief Executive after a series of scandals hit the company. He is now being sued forfraud by one of their biggest investors. Dave lee reports in san francisco. When Travis Kalanick was forced out as Chief Executive of uber, he kept as Chief Executive of uber, he kept a seat on the companys board, and also a10 stake in the firm. But since then, it is alleged that he has been concocting a plan to get his seat back. He told allies that he was doing what stevejobs did, having left only to front and the return to apple. It is said that he fraudulently expanded the b
Yet many contentious issues between where the us and china have signed these two countries still remain. Areas including technology and innovation could determine the economic and military power of these two superpowers. That has been left the first phase of a trade agreement, signalling a ceasefire for phase two negotiations and until in the trade war that has rattled the global economy. China has promised to buy an extra then Donald Trumps tarus remain on 200 billion a year worth of us farm produce. Two thirds of all us imports from and an extra 75 billion worth of industrial products. China. Michelle fleury, bbc news in return, the us is halving its tariffs or import taxes on 120 billion worth of chinese goods. Tariffs. But most tariffs lets get some reaction now will remain in place. From our Asia Business correspondent a tax of 25 will still be charged karishma vaswani. On chinese imports worth 250 billion a year. And President Trumps biggest complaint that china unfairly subsidis