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Facebook: backlash threatens world's biggest platform

Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)

Here is a summary of the main issues in the Facebook controversy: What are the latest revelations? A New York Times report said some 150 business partners had a...

Lawsuit adds to Facebook woes on data protection

Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)

Facebook shares already sagging under the weight of the social network's troubles ended the trading day down 7.25 percent to $133.24 and slipped even lower in a...

Pinterest planning 2019 stock market debut: report

Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)

The San Francisco-based startup could have an initial public offering of shares as soon as April, according to Journal, which did not name sources for the infor...

Google joins tech move east, to invest $1 bn in New York campus

Dec 17, 2018 (AFP)

The move by Google comes following Amazon's announcement of new headquarters sites in New York and suburban Washington DC worth some $5 billion, and Apple's $1 ...

France to push ahead with digital tax starting January 1

Dec 17, 2018 (AFP)

France has been driving hard for a new so-called "GAFA tax" -- named after Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon -- to ensure the global giants pay a fair share of...

5G: a revolution not without risks

Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)

What is 5G, what will it be able to do, and what are the risks? What is 5G? 5G stands for the fifth generation of mobile network technology, which should begin ...

Fake news vs fact in online battle for truth

Dec 15, 2018 (AFP)

Increasingly it is used by politicians around the world to denounce or dismiss news reports that do not fit their version of the truth. But as news outlets defe...

Made in Vietnam: Vingroup launches first smartphones

Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)

The company, run by Vietnam's richest man, has built its core business in the real estate and retail sectors but has branched out to include car manufacturing, ...

China's ZTE loses major German mobile contract

Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)

ZTE's contract to maintain mobile operator O2's network, which is owned by Spain's Telefonica, "will come to an end as planned at the end of the year," said a s...

Home comforts -- and a curfew -- for Huawei exec on bail

Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)

But Meng Wanzhou, heiress to her billionaire father's global tech conglomerate, is managing to surround herself with a few home comforts. Huawei's chief financi...

Apple unveils plan for $1 bn campus in Texas, US expansion

Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)

The new campus -- which will be used for engineering and other functions, but not manufacturing -- will be near the tech giant's existing facility in Austin and...

Better biomedical devices, wearable displays may result from tiny light-guiding structures

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

"To the best of our knowledge, these are the smallest optical waveguides ever created in polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS," said research team member Ye Pu of Ecol...

Facebook teaches New Yorkers about privacy at 'pop-up' kiosk

Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)

The public relations exercise, a one-day event at the midtown holiday market in Bryant Park, was a first for Facebook in the United States and followed a simila...

Tencent Music surges in Wall Street debut

Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)

Under the ticker "TME," shares had jumped 10.6 percent to $14.26 near 1720 GMT. The stock was introduced at $13 a share and rose as high as $14.75 in its debut....

Tencent Music raises $1 billion in US IPO

Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)

The group will enter the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday with an initial public offering (IPO) of $13 a share, it said in a document filed with the Hong Kong ...

Apple phones still sold in China despite ban

Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)

According to US chipmaker Qualcomm, which requested the ban, the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court ordered four Apple subsidiaries to stop selling older models...

Google CEO spars with lawmakers on bias, privacy

Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)

"We build our products in a neutral way," Pichai said in one exchange with a lawmaker, and added later: "We approach our work without any political bias." Picha...

China slams 'inhumane' treatment of Huawei executive

Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)

China's latest tirade over the case came as Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company's founder, faces a Canadian court's decision on bail later Monday in Vanco...

Tariffs prompt GoPro to pull manufacturing from China

Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)

Manufacturing of GoPro cameras for countries other than the US will remain in China, according to the Silicon Valley-based electronics firm. "Today's geopolitic...

CEO says Google has 'checks and balances' against bias

Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)

Pichai also said privacy and security are essential parts of Google's mission, and that the company is committed to working with the US government "to keep our ...