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Iran's tech sector blooms under shield of sanctions

The names may be unfamiliar but the services are immediately recognisable: Snapp is Iran's answer to Uber, Digikala is its Amazon, and Pintapin its Booking.com.

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Facebook's minority workforce gains are "still disappointing"

Facebook'slatestdiversityreportisstarkreminderofthegulfbetweenthegoalofamultiracialworkforceandthecompany'scurrentmonoculture.Thesocialmediagiantpublishedits201

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Debunking China Myths: Is China’s tech power overrated?

Whentheworld’sleadingride-hailingserviceUbersolditsChinesebusinessunittolocalrivalDidiChuxing,TheEconomist–thefamousweeklypublishedinEngland–describedChinaasa“t

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Iran's tech sector blooms under shield of sanctions

Thenamesmaybeunfamiliarbuttheservicesareimmediatelyrecognisable:SnappisIran'sanswertoUber,DigikalaisitsAmazon,andPintapinitsBooking.com.USsanctionshaveprotected

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What is Hong Kong's role in making the bay area plan a success?

HongKonghasbeenoneofthefavoritedestinationsfortechcompaniesfromtheChinesemainlandtodotheirIPOs.Tencent,forexample,isheadquarteredinShenzhenbutlistedontheHongKon

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Chinese e-commerce sector returns retail to stores

Alibaba’s 2017 Global Entrepreneur Conference was held in Hangzhou on July 11. Under the theme of “Made in Internet”, CEOs and founders of e-commerce and tech giants, like China's Alibaba, Xiaomi and India's Paytm attended the conference.

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Tech firm using AI to rule out hiring bias in Silicon Valley

While there's been a lot of talk about diversity in the tech world, statistics show the percentages of men, women and minorities working in this sector haven't changed much.

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Can Hong Kong become Asia’s next Silicon Valley?

Foryears,HongKonghasbeentryingtobuilditsowntechindustrytohelpspureconomicgrowth.Butitseffortshavebeenovershadowedbyitsneighboringcity,Shenzhen,whichisoftenrefer

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Here's why tech CEOs just met with Trump

Six months after top tech CEOs met with U.S. President Trump for the first time, they came back for round two. And this time the tensions leading up to the meeting are even greater.

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Here's why tech CEOs just met with Trump.

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Here's why tech CEOs just met with Trump

SixmonthsaftertoptechCEOsmetwithU.S.PresidentTrumpforthefirsttime,theycamebackforroundtwo.Andthistimethetensionsleadinguptothemeetingareevengreater.TheCEOsofApp

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U.S. tech titans lead legal brief against Trump travel ban

​More than 100 companies, including most of high-tech's biggest names, joined a legal brief opposing President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, arguing that it would give companies strong incentives to move jobs outside the United States.

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Trump sits down with tech execs, including critics

Donald Trump met with some of America's most powerful tech executives in a bid to mend fences with a largely pro-Hillary Clinton industry and promote job creation and trade.

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Silicon Valley Reels After Trump’s Election

Silicon Valley’s luminaries woke up Wednesday morning to a darkened new global order, one that the ceaseless optimism of their tech-powered visions seemed suddenly unable to conquer.

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Obama Brought Silicon Valley to Washington

This October, the White House opened its doors to a few thousand people for South by South Lawn, a daylong event described as a “festival of ideas, art and action.”

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Cybertwee: the artists fighting male-dominated tech with pink cutesiness

What would the tech landscape look like if girly tropes were championed, rather than ridiculed? Three artists are seeking to find out

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Top tech leaders bash Trump as anti-innovation

A Donald Trump presidency "would be a disaster for innovation," said on Thursday an open letter from 145 U.S. tech industry leaders, including high-profile names like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.