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Canva CEO Melanie Perkins will tell us about the journey to a $15B valuation at Disrupt

The design space has undergone major changes in the last decade. What once was dominated by a single player in Adobe has now become a burgeoning software landscape, with a handful of major players ans

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Twitter experiencing widespread outages

Twitter users in Canada and parts of the U.S. appear to be having trouble accessing the social media platform on Friday morning. Reports from third-party web monitoring service Downdetector indicate t

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China's netizen population hits over 1 billion

The number of netizens in China has reached 1.01 billion as of June this year, as internet penetration rose to 71.6 percent, according to a report released by China Int

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Apple will now let App Store developers talk to their customers about buying direct

Apple announced today it has reached a proposed settlement (embedded below) in a lawsuit filed against it by developers in the United States. The agreement, which is still pending court approval, incl

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Twitter starts to roll out paid Ticketed Spaces on iOS

Twitter announced today that some hosts on Spaces, its live audio feature, will now be able to sell access to Ticketed Spaces. Applications for Ticketed Spaces first opened in June for users who are o

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After testing, Instagram launches ads in the Instagram Shop tab globally

Last year, Instagram unveiled Shops as part of Facebook’s larger pivot toward e-commerce. Shops is front-and-almost-center on the app’s bottom navigation bar, even more readily accessible

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China steps up efforts to prevent unfair competition in internet sector

China's top market regulator on Tuesday moved to regulate the country's internet sector, drafting rules preventing unfair competition.The rules aim to protect the legit

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Fashion NFTs reach the metaverse

01:48 Who has the most stylish avatar out there?In the virtual world of Decentraland, users are out-doing each other as to who is the most fashionable. Bought and sold on the blockchain

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Samsung reveals new folding and flip phones in bid to take niche handsets mainstream

The launch of the company's new folding phone - the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 - follows a disastrous initial product release, when reviewers found the device was regularly breaking and branded it "unusable".

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Construction management platform Remato raises $1.7M Seed from Passion Capital

Small and medium-sized construction businesses in Europe and the US tend not to be run on digital platforms, leaving a $1.6 trillion industry relatively untouched. publicly-listed Procore (NYSE: PCOR)

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Square to buy Afterpay for $29 billion as buy now, pay later booms

Square will purchase buy-now-pay-later firm Afterpay for about $29 billion in Australia's biggest-ever buyout, creating an online payments giant to tap into explosive g

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Google fined for refusing to localize users' data in Russia

Russia on Thursday imposed a fine of 3 million rubles (about $41,017) on Google for refusing to localize its users' data in the country, Google's first fine for the offence, Moscow's Tagansky Distric

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Reliance Retail acquires majority stake in Just Dial for $469 million

Reliance Retail said on Friday it has acquired a controlling stake in 25-year-old Indian search and discovery firm Just Dial in a deal worth $469 million.The Indian retail giant said it has acquired 4

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Apple introduces a $99 MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12

The addition of MagSafe to the iPhone 12 line introduced all manner of fun avenues for accessory makers, but there’s a strong case (so to speak) to be made that a snap on battery pack might be the mos

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Biden asks courts to dismiss government appeals of TikTok ruling

The TikTok logo is pictured outside the company's U.S. head office in Culver City, California, U.S., September 15, 2020. /Reuters The Biden administration on Monday asked two federal appeals c

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Public urged to help cancer researchers by playing online game

The game is designed to train a computer algorithm to recognise oral cancers in medical images.

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Ride-hailing giant Didi to be removed from app stores over user privacy violation

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Sunday it has notified app stores to remove Chinese ride-hailing platform Didi Chuxing due to "serious" violations