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Lead 'em then leave 'em: tech founders who quit
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
From Microsoft's Bill Gates to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, most of the people who created the Silicon Valley giants that dominate our lives have since handed the reins...
ESA accelerates 5G digital transformation
Nov 26, 2021 (ESA)
ESA is working with Eureka, an international organisation for research and development funding and coordination, and its Celtic-Next cluster, which is developin...
EU ministers back bloc's Big Tech clampdown
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Ministers from the EU's 27 member countries agreed the texts at a meeting in Brussels, which will serve as their marching orders in negotiations with the Europe...
China's Tencent told to get state approval for new apps: state media
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
The Chinese government has moved to exert more authority over the industry in the past year, citing concerns that tech giants in the country have become too big...
France sanctions US e-commerce site over 'dangerous' goods
Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)
Search engines like Google are expected to remove the website -- which offers cheap, mostly Chinese products -- from their results in the coming days. Applicati...
EU lawmakers back step towards curbs on Big Tech
Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)
A key committee of the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved their version of the Digital Markets Act, legislation that will slap far-reaching rules on Fa...
World weighs laws to rein in mighty algorithms
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
While China is worried about delivery app algorithms that encourage their drivers to speed, US lawmakers are grappling with social media recommendation systems ...
Inflation wave extends to e-commerce: Adobe
Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)
The report shows how online commerce -- a venue where pricing transparency often results in discounting -- is experiencing many of the same pricing pressures in...
Epic CEO says Apple, Google must be stopped from monopoly abuse
Nov 16, 2021 (AFP)
Epic Games, creator of the hugely popular Fortnite, is locked in bitter legal battles with Apple and Google, whose operating systems run nearly all the smartpho...
Indonesia tech giant GoTo raises $1.3 bn ahead of IPO
Nov 12, 2021 (AFP)
The pre-IPO fundraising, announced Thursday, follows the May merger of ride-hailing giant GoJek and e-tailer Tokopedia to form GoTo, which together generated so...
Google loses appeal against EU's 2.4-billion-euro anti-trust fine
Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)
The ruling by the Luxembourg-based General Court confirmed the landmark decision taken by the European Commission in 2017. The matter could be challenged again,...
Tencent earnings creep up 3% after China tech crackdown
Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)
China's heavy-handed regulation of the tech and video gaming sectors in recent months has hit industry heavyweights with bumper fines and sweeping restrictions....
Original Apple computer built by Jobs and Wozniak to be auctioned
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
The functioning Apple-1, the great-great-grandfather of today's sleek chrome-and-glass Macbooks, is expected to fetch up to $600,000 at an auction in California...
Original Apple computer built by Jobs and Wozniak sells for $400k
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
The functioning Apple-1, the great-great-grandfather of today's sleek chrome-and-glass Macbooks, had been expected to fetch up to $600,000 when it went under th...
Facebook whistleblower boosts EU push for new tech laws
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
The former Facebook engineer leaked a trove of internal documents that have sparked weeks of criticism of the social media giant and a major push worldwide to g...
Mobile payments firm Paytm kicks off India's biggest IPO
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
Paytm is backed by Chinese tycoon Jack Ma's Ant Group, Japan's SoftBank and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which together own around a third of the compan...
'Blizzard' hits SoftBank with loss on sinking investments
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
The telecoms firm-turned-investment giant also announced a share buyback worth one trillion yen ($8.8 billion), reportedly under pressure from shareholders frus...
From Nigeria to India, Gen Z taps apps to invest
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
US investment app Robinhood has made a splash in the West with its mission to open the markets to "everyday people", but from Nigeria to India, Gen Z are flocki...
Meet the finfluencers: TikTok's investment gurus
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
Across the globe, baby-faced investment gurus in their twenties are building huge followings on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok by offering tips on how people can...
Crypto addiction: a hidden epidemic?
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
Danzico had been swept up in the global craze for trading digital currencies during the pandemic, and very quickly it had grown into an obsession. "I would have...
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