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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...

Xerox ends hostile bid to buy HP

Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)

The end of the hostile takeover campaign came less than two months after the imaging and copying giant upped by about 10 percent a bid rejected by the HP board ...

Huawei posts strong growth but warns 'most difficult year' ahead

Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)

The stark warning came as a result of stringent US sanctions, with their impact worsened by the fallout from the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Huawei -- the worl...

Will coronavirus bump web traffic into the slow lane?

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

- To what extent has web traffic grown with billions watching on screens at home? According to Nokia, one of the world's three largest telecoms equipment produc...

Huawei flagship phone goes Google-free

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

The new P40 might not be the first Google-free phone launched by Huawei, it is the first top-line phone meant to seduce early adopters and show off its technolo...

Vienna funerals go online amid coronavirus fears

Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)

Only up to five people are allowed to gather at a time, and movement has been strictly limited in Austria since last week as countries around the world fight to...

Instagram unveils new shared video feature to ease isolation

Mar 24, 2020 (AFP)

The Facebook-owned image-centric social network also announced new efforts to promote reliable content about the outbreak and stop the spread of misinformation ...

Facebook aims its Messenger at coronavirus battle

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

The social network also invited software savants to take part in an online "hackathon" aimed at creating ways to use Messenger to ease social-distancing and del...

Coronavirus dims Twitter earnings expectations

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

The San Francisco company is among numerous firms expected to take a hit from the crisis, which has already altered many consumer and online habits. Twitter sai...

Cannes film festival shuffles dates in bid to survive epidemi

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

While a slew of other major entertainment events including the Eurovision Song Contest have fallen victim to COVID-19, the world's biggest film festival has bee...

Facebook scrambles as use soars in time of isolation

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

The leading social network said it has nearly doubled server capacity to power WhatsApp as people in isolation place more voice and video calls using the popula...

Facebook and Google in talks with Washington to track infections: US media

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

The project would involve collecting location information from Americans' smartphones and using it anonymously to map the spread of the disease and predict urge...

Tech giant Tencent sees profit jump, may benefit from virus

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

The Shenzhen-based behemoth, one of the largest stocks on the Hong Kong bourse, said Wednesday net profit last year rose 19 percent to 93.3 billion yuan ($13.3 ...

Tech platforms in joint effort to stem virus misinformation

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

A joint statement was issued late Monday by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Reddit along with Google-owned YouTube and Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. "We ar...

Apple closing all stores outside China until March 27 due to virus

Mar 14, 2020 (AFP)

Cook said the firm had learned from steps taken in China, where the tech giant has just reopened its retail stores. "One of those lessons is that the most effec...

Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

"Our flat lenses can drastically reduce the weight, complexity and cost of cameras and other imaging systems, while increasing their functionality," said resear...

Pandemic exposes 'digital divide' as schools, workplaces close

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

A growing number of students from grade school to university are moving to virtual classrooms, and while millions of office workers are being asked to work from...

Kacific1 Broadband Services commence across Asia Pacific

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

Designed and manufactured by Boeing, Kacific1 is a high-throughput, ka-band satellite which successfully launched on 16 December 2019 from Cape Canaveral, Flori...

Google restricts visits to curb coronavirus risk

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

The added measure was enacted as word went out that Apple had joined the list of technology firms advising employees to work from home and that the prestigious ...

E-learning and Nintendo: coping with virus school shutdowns

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

"I just said 'no, no, no, no... what are we supposed to do?'" the 40-year-old, who works in human resources in Tokyo, told AFP. Like parents from Italy to Iran,...