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Trump says he plans to ban TikTok from operating in the U.S.: Report

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was planning to ban TikTok as soon as Saturday local time, and announced he would not support any American company interested in acquiring the Chinese short video

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Number of China's e-commerce users rise by 100 million in one year

The number of e-commerce users in China rose by 100 million compared with last year, and the number of stores on major online retail platforms went up 3.8 percent year on year, according to the Minis

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Rakuten is shuttering the online shop formerly known as Buy.com

Japanese conglomerate Rakuten has pulled the plug on its U.S. online retail store, originally known as Buy.com, and will wind down its operations over the next two months, the company confirmed to Tec

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Apple says next iPhones will launch later than usual

Users gearing up to buy the latest iPhones are going to have wait longer than they did last year.In a call following the release of Apple’s Q3 earnings, the company’s CFO Luca Maestri shar

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Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests

Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for seeking information beyond what is necessary, including highly personal details, for their investigations into the company's data and marketplace, the

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Garmin confirms ransomware attack took down services

Sport and fitness tech giant Garmin has confirmed its five-day outage was caused by a ransomware attack.In a brief statement on Monday, the company said it was hit by a cyberattack on July 23 that &#

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Revolut extends Series D round to $580 million with $80 million in new funding

Fintech startup Revolut just announced that it has raised $80 million as part of its Series D round that it had already announced in February. The new influx of funding comes from TSG Consumer Partner

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What your company can learn from the Bank of England’s resilience proposal

The outages at RBS, TSB and Visa left millions of people unable to deposit their paychecks, pay their bills, acquire new loans and more. As a result, the House of Commons’ Treasury Select Commit

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Assessing the potential for a gig economy in education

Over the past few years, personalized learning has established itself as a focal point of innovation in education. Despite the focus, the rate of progress in establishing personalized learning practic

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China constructs scientific innovation ecosystem

The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) is building a platform to develop a scientific innovation ecosystem by using a new generation of information technology. The digital economy ec

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Twitter stock slides after-hours amid scramble to contain high-profile account hacks

Twitter’s stock slid as much as 4% in after-hours trading as the company tried to swat down hackers that had taken over the accounts of multiple high-profile users.Accounts belonging to Barack O

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WhatsApp hit by brief outage, leaving users unable to send or receive messages

WhatsApp was briefly down Tuesday, with users unable to send or receive messages on the Facebook-owned end-to-end encrypted messaging app.Affected users may have seen that WhatsApp was “connect

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Investors are browsing for Chromium startups

A few months ago, we declared that “browsers are interesting again,” thanks to increased competition among the major players. Now, as more startups are getting onboard, things are getting

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India seeks new regulator for non-personal data

India should set up a data regulator to oversee how companies collect, process, store, monetize and even destroy non-personal data (or data that has been anonymized), a panel tasked by New Delhi has r

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Facebook bug causing Spotify, Tinder and Pinterest apps to crash

The iPhone apps for Spotify, Tinder and Pinterest are crashing for users around the world, apparently due to a Facebook bug.The core issue seems to lie with Facebook's software developer kit (SDK) fo

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108 nabbed for organizing cross-border online gambling in south China

Police in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have arrested 108 suspects for organizing cross-border online gambling involving more than 350 million yuan (a

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China's LGBTQ online community BlueCity listed on Nasdaq

China's BlueCity launched its IPO on the Nasdaq on July 8. Company founder and CEO Ma Baoli is pictured in the middle. Photo/BlueCity China-based BlueCity, an LGBTQ online community launched i