The Competition and Markets Authority conferred on launching a market investigation alongside its Mobile Ecosystem Market Study report, which found that Apple and Google have a practical duopoly on mobile ecosystems that allows them to exert a stranglehold over handling systems, app stores, and net browsers on mobile gadgets. Browsers are one of the most influential and widely used apps on mobile...
Met police drop investigation into Prince Andrew in Virginia Giuffre case
The Metropolitan police are taking no further action after a review prompted by Virginia Giuffre, who is taking legal action against Prince Andrew. Met officers made the decision to drop their investigation on Sunday, after reviewing several documents, including one relating to an ongoing US civil lawsuit concerning Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17...
How the Reddit Bureau of Investigation solves mysteries while avoiding witch hunts
On April 16, 2013, a day after three people lost their lives when terrorists detonated two homemade bombs during the annual Boston Marathon, a new subreddit was created. “Find Boston Bombers” was a place for Redditors to attempt to identify the culprits of the attack – a crowdsourced investigation that gained momentum when the FBI published photos of suspects two days later. What happened next is...