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Collectors of digital NFTs see a 'Wild West' market worth the risk
Jun 06, 2021 (AFP)
Brandon Kang, a 25-year-old videographer from California, started buying NFTs in December, and already owns more than 500. In February he spent $50,000 for "Ref...
India warns Twitter to comply with new IT rules
Jun 05, 2021 (AFP)
Digital rights activists say New Delhi's latest rules could be used by the government to identify authors of critical posts on social media sites. But the gover...
Facebook imposes 2-year Trump ban, revises rules for politicians
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
The punishment will be effective from January 7, when Trump was booted off the social media giant, and comes after Facebook's independent oversight board said t...
Sotheby's sells first NFT that sparked a craze
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
"Quantum" is an octagon-shaped animation by New York artist Kevin McCoy. It became the first work to be associated with a NFT-type certificate of ownership in M...
Square chief Dorsey mulls pocket wallet for bitcoin
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
Hardware wallets can be used to store the digital currency offline, synching with applications for transactions on the internet as needed. Another option for cr...
Twitter debuts subscription service with added features
Jun 03, 2021 (AFP)
The feature -- initially only available in Australia and Canada -- could enable the social network to rely less on ads or promoted posts that disrupt the real-t...
Smartphone, broadband usage grows in US: survey
Jun 03, 2021 (AFP)
The Pew Research Center said 85 percent of adults have smartphones, up from 81 percent in 2019, while 77 percent reported home broadband subscriptions, four per...
Huawei launches new mobile operating system in fight for survival
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
The company says its new HarmonyOS system is packed with special features and capitalizes on growing demand to seamlessly link devices -- known as "Internet of ...
Amazon worker injury rate blasted by US unions
Jun 01, 2021 (AFP)
Workers at Amazon warehouses are injured more often and more severely than peers employed at retail rivals such as Walmart, the Strategic Organizing Center said...
Germany, France want to curb 'killer' Big Tech deals
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
The joint call came as EU ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday laid out ambitions for two landmark laws being negotiated that could fundamentally change th...
Bezos exits CEO job July 5; Amazon boosts streaming with MGM deal
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
Bezos is ceding his chief executive role to Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services, the lucrative cloud computing unit at the Seattle-based company. Bezos wi...
Jack Ma to step down as president of his business school: FT
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
Ma, formerly one of China's most flambouyant entrepreneurs, has largely disappeared from public view since Alibaba's fintech arm was investigated and fined by r...
Judge offers tough questions as Epic-Apple trial draws to close
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers heard closing arguments in the case brought by Epic in its bid to break Apple's tight grip on its App Store, and ...
TikTok helping deaf Black Americans preserve their brand of sign language
May 23, 2021 (AFP)
In her video clips, she tells her 400,000 followers about the differences between her language and the standard American Sign Language (ASL). Among other things...
App Store would be 'toxic' mess without control, Apple CEO says
May 21, 2021 (AFP)
Cook, the last scheduled witness in the case brought by Fortnite maker Epic Games, offered a robust defense of Apple's procedures for reviewing and approving al...
Netflix searching for exec to lead video game push: report
May 21, 2021 (AFP)
The California-based company has already held talks with several industry veterans, the article said, quoting sources familiar with the matter. The subscription...
Snapchat claims 500 mn monthly active users
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
The platform, which has expanded its offerings beyond its original disappearing messages, had not previously announced a figure for monthly active users, but ha...
Zhang Yiming: The billionaire tech visionary behind TikTok
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
But at just 38 he has also found that having a seat at the top table of China's rambunctious tech scene carries a heavy political and managerial price. Zhang's ...
Bytedance billionaire CEO to leave post to 'read and daydream'
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing has tightened the screws on China's booming tech sector, levying fines -- including on Bytedance last month -- for allegedly flouting monopoly rules, an...
Europe bids to join NFT art auction craze
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Drawing quizzical head-scratching by many, these digital objects authenticated by blockchain technology have drawn millions of dollars at auctions, with even th...
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