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China's Ant Group postpones IPO under regulatory pressure
Nov 03, 2020 (AFP)
The firm's Alipay platform has helped revolutionise commerce and personal finance in China, with consumers using the smartphone app to pay for everything from m...
TikTok users get access to Sony Music songs
Nov 02, 2020 (AFP)
The companies did not disclose financial terms of the agreement, which will let clips of music owned by Sony be used in TikTok posts. Social media platforms hav...
New Macs expected at Apple online event November 10
Nov 02, 2020 (AFP)
Word of the November 10 event to be streamed from Apple's headquarters in Silicon Valley disclosed little more than that it would begin at 10 am Pacific time. I...
Kacific Plans Second Satellite: Kacific2
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
Kacific2 will add capacity to its largest, high-demand markets of Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, as well as expand its reach wider into South ...
US judge sets up fresh roadblock in Trump bid to ban TikTok
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
The order would have knocked the Chinese-owned video-sharing app offline by cutting it off from US businesses providing website hosting, data storage and other ...
Big Tech delivers strong profits amid pandemic, political scrutiny
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
Profits were up for Facebook, Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet, while Apple saw a modest dip in earnings on weakness in iPhone sales. The results -- showing a ...
Samsung Electronics Q3 net profit leaps after Huawei boost
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
The world's biggest memory chip maker said profits in the July-to-September period were up 48.8 percent year-on-year to 9.36 trillion won ($8.3 billion), beatin...
TikTok countersues rival video app Triller in patent defense
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
The complaint filed in federal court in California seeks to quash the lawsuit filed in July in a Texas federal court alleging the Chinese-owned app infringed on...
Apple iPhone sales tumble, trimming profit
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
Apple profit fell 7 percent to $12.7 billion in the recently ended quarter, the Silicon Valley-based colossus said in its earnings release. The California tech ...
Apple developing search engine to compete with Google: report
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
The report, citing unnamed sources, said signs of the search engine technology have begun to appeal in its iOS 14 operating system. The move comes amid increase...
US senators spar with Big Tech over legal immunity, politics
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
Dorsey -- along with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google chief Sundar Pichai -- had been summoned to the Senate to testify via video link to debate a law kn...
For Chinese consumers, Ant Group app is part of the fabric of life
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
As Tao and a friend strolled the city at the weekend, he used Alipay to buy a cup of milk tea, a deep-fried octopus snack and a box of candy. He also used it to...
Ant Group IPO to rocket Alibaba founder Jack Ma's wealth
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
Ant Group said Monday it plans to raise $34 billion in a listing shared between Hong Kong and Shanghai -- making it the biggest IPO in history. The e-payments b...
'Assassin's Creed' takes to Netflix in Ubisoft alliance
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The first project by the French-based video game group and the leading television streaming service is a series intended to be "an epic, genre-bending live acti...
Online liability reform would make internet worse: Twitter CEO
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
Dorsey's comments came in prepared testimony due to be given at a Senate hearing Wednesday examining reform of a contentious law governing the internet. The Sen...
TikTok moves into ecommerce with Shopify partnership
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The deal comes amid scrutiny of the China-based app and a pending court hearing on TikTok's future in the United States, where it reaches more than 100 million ...
US senators to quiz Big Tech CEOs on legal protections
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday will give lawmakers a chance to confront social media's top executives a week before the election and potentiall...
Facebook's India policy chief quits after hate speech claims
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The network sparked a political storm in India after the Wall Street Journal reported in August that policy chief Ankhi Das refused to take down anti-Muslim com...
China's Ant Group says to raise $34 bn in record IPO
Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)
The record-shattering IPO comes as the administration of US President Donald Trump tries to smother Chinese technology companies, whose ascent is seen by Washin...
Dubai introduces facial recognition on public transport
Oct 25, 2020 (AFP)
"This technology has proven its effectiveness to identify suspicious and wanted people," said Obaid al-Hathboor, director of Dubai's Transport Security Departme...
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