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Expedia raising $3.2 bn to weather pandemic hit
Apr 23, 2020 (AFP)
The online travel booking service will also furlough workers, and its board and top executive will forgo cash pay for the rest of the year, Expedia Group chairm...
Instacart seeks 250,000 more delivery workers as demand surges
Apr 23, 2020 (AFP)
The San Francisco-based group, which uses independent gig workers to shop and deliver groceries, also announced new safety measures for personnel following a wa...
Google to verify all advertisers, and their location
Apr 23, 2020 (AFP)
The internet giant and global leader in digital advertising said it would start by verifying advertisers in phases in the United States and expand the program g...
Court approves record $5 bn fine of Facebook over privacy
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
Former Baidu executive suspected of corruption
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
Ex-Baidu vice president Wei Fang is under suspicion of corruption following internal investigations, and his case has been handed over to public authorities, sa...
Facebook takes $5.7 bn stake in India's Jio digital platforms
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
The deal will give the US social media giant a 10 percent stake in Jio Platforms, part of Ambani's oil-to-telecoms Reliance Industries empire. Announcing the de...
Apple Music expands to 52 new countries in global services push
Apr 21, 2020 (AFP)
The move, part of the biggest expansion of Apple services in a decade, brings Apple Music to a total of 167 markets, including 25 new African countries added Tu...
Huawei revenue growth slows sharply in virus-afflicted Q1
Apr 21, 2020 (AFP)
The figures released by unlisted Huawei are among the first by a major Chinese corporation to provide a glimpse of the scale of the business impact from the pan...
Uber expands delivery options for retail, personal items
Apr 20, 2020 (AFP)
The ridesharing giant said a new service called Uber Direct would focus on grocery and convenience store deliveries -- where social distancing and other obstacl...
Amazon workers group calls for strike over virus and environmental concerns
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
The e-commerce colossus is believed to have had COVID-19 cases in a number of its warehouses and has seen employee protests and walkouts in several of them to p...
Facebook-backed Libra unveils revamped digital money project
Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)
The new plan submitted to Swiss regulators could scale back the ambitious digital money initiative unveiled last year and touted as tool for financial inclusion...
Without fanfare, Apple launches new iPhone for the budget-minded
Apr 15, 2020 (AFP)
The updated iPhone SE will start at $399, or less than half the price of its flagship devices, and be available for order as of Friday in more than 40 markets. ...
New iPhone may be coming as locked-down consumers seek bargains
Apr 15, 2020 (AFP)
Despite a pandemic-induced global economic crisis, Apple is widely believed to be set to release a reduced-priced handset that aims to fill a gap in its lineup,...
eBay CEO to come from Walmart; Amazon adds 100K jobs, eyes 75K more
Apr 13, 2020 (AFP)
Iannone will take over April 27 from interim CEO Scott Schenkel, who took over after Devin Wenig stepped down last year. Most recently Iannone was chief operati...
Sheltering consumers shut out of Snapchat for hours
Apr 08, 2020 (AFP)
The outage, the cause of which was not explained by the company, lasted several hours, making unavailable the service known for its disappearing messages and ot...
WeWork sues Japan's SoftBank for backing out of deal
Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)
The lawsuit filed in a US court in Delaware came just days after SoftBank said it was backing out of the plan to purchase WeWork shares to shore up the finances...
Internet overseers seek crackdown on coronavirus website scams
Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers took the unusual step of firing off a letter to "registrars" entrusted with the business of issuing webs...
Short-form streaming platform Quibi goes live as consumers retrench
Apr 06, 2020 (AFP)
With consumers ready or not, Quibi began streaming short-form comedies, dramas and entertainment on Monday in an effort to win over audiences in the mobile age....
Ultrathin but fully packaged high-resolution camera
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
Fully packaged with micro-optical elements such as inverted micro-lenses, multilayered pinhole arrays, and gap spacers on the image sensor, the camera boasts a ...
SoftBank drops plan to pump $3 bn into WeWork
Apr 02, 2020 (AFP)
The company said "certain conditions to the tender offer were not satisfied" but added the decision would have "no impact on WeWork's operations, customers, fiv...
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