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Didi app pulled from app stores in China after suspension order

China has ordered app-store operators to remove the app of Didi from their stores, the latest as tension escalates between the nation’s largest ride-hailing giant and local regulators. The app has dis

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Putin signs law requiring foreign IT firms to open offices in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Thursday requiring foreign IT firms to open offices on Russian territory, according to a document published by the government.The law will apply to co

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Microsoft Windows: First update in six years

02:55 MicrosoftWindows is getting a long overdue makeover with the release of Windows 11.Those dreaded Windows updates won’t take as long now as they’ll be 40 percent smaller and run in

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Japan to Launch Antitrust Investigation Into Google, Apple's Activities, Reports Say

The Japanese government will probe the activities of US tech giants, Apple and Google, amid alleged antitrust violations, the newspaper Nikkei has reported.According to

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Google announces the Firmina subsea cable between the U.S. and Argentina

Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable that will connect the East Coast of the U.S. and Las Toninas, Argentina — with additional landings in Brazil and Uruguay. The idea he

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Contentstack raises $57.5M for its headless content management system

Contentstack, a startup that offers a headless content management system (or a ‘content experience platform’ in marketing speak), today announced that it has raised a $57.5 million Series

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Facebook under new investigation by competition authority

The Competition and Market Authority is probing whether the company abuses its dominant market position.

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US removes Xiaomi’s designation as a Communist Chinese Military Company

Xiaomi, one of China’s high-profile tech firms that fell in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, has been removed from a U.S. government blacklist that designated it as a Communist Chines

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PhonePe in talks to acquire Indian app store Indus OS

Walmart-backed Indian payments services firm PhonePe is in advanced stages of talks to acquire Samsung-backed Indus OS, a startup that operates an eponymous third-party Android app store, a source fam

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Bird Ride’s SPAC filing shows scooter-nomics just doesn’t fly

Scooter unicorn Bird Rides is going public, per an agreement to merge with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. After rumors and reports circulated for months about an imminent deal, it has

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APD | Oli is India's choice: Indian BJP Leader

By APD writer Shristi KafleIndian Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy has claimed that Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is the choice of India. He made

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Telkomsel invests an additional $300 million in Gojek

Telkomsel, a unit of Indonesia’s largest telecom operator Telkom, has invested an additional $300 million in ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek, the two firms said Monday, just months after the netw

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Credit Karma reinvents cash back rewards with instant payback

Credit Karma Money, a new checking and savings account from the company best known for its credit monitoring service, recently launched a significant new feature. Called Instant Karma, the program rew

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Facebook launches Neighborhoods, a Nextdoor clone

Facebook is launching a new section of its app designed to connect neighbors and curate neighborhood-level news. The new feature, predictably called Neighborhoods, is available now in Canada and will

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EU hits Apple with music streaming charge in boost for Spotify

Margrethe Vestager, competition commissioner of the European Commission, speaks during a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, April 30, 2021. /CFP EU regulators on Friday accused Apple of dis

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Click Studios asks customers to stop tweeting about its Passwordstate data breach

Australian security software house Click Studios has told customers not to post emails sent by the company about its data breach, which allowed malicious hackers to push a malicious update to its flag

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PayPal to launch cross-border payments wallet in China

PayPal plans to launch a local wallet in China. /CFP Paypal is looking to launch a local wallet in China focusing on cross-border payments, instead of competing with dominant domestic players,