MWC cancellation disrupts launch plans for Chinese mobile giants
China’s biggest smartphone makers are delaying new product launches that had been scheduled around the Mobile World Congress (MWC) after the event organizer…
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How giants Alibaba and Baidu are fighting China’s coronavirus outbreak
DEADLY novel coronavirus (nCoV) that originated from Wuhan has claimed the lives of many in China and spread to at least 21 countries globally causing the…
To stand up against giants, new-age advertising platforms must go…
MOVING into the fourth industrial revolution means companies have access to all the data they could possibly want. As a result, advertising is being…
China targets tech giants in app privacy crackdown
Chinese tech companies including social media giant Tencent have been ordered by regulators to clean up how their apps handle user information or face…
G7 urges tight regulations for digital currencies, agrees to tax digital…
Digital currencies such as Facebook’s planned Libra raise serious concerns and must be regulated as tightly as possible to ensure they do not upset the world’s…
France passes law taxing digital giants in defiance of US anger
PARIS: France on Thursday became the first major economy to impose a tax on digital giants, with parliament passing the legislation in defiance of a probe…
French lawmakers approve 3% tax on online giants
France’s lower house of parliament has approved a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook and the French government hopes…
Past enforcement could presage new probe of current digital giants
WASHINGTON: The top US antitrust enforcer said on Tuesday that studying enforcement actions against Standard Oil and AT&T decades ago can help lay the…
Social media giants are not taking Canadian laws seriously
Politicians are increasingly concerned that social media giants have become so big, powerful and rich that they are effectively above the law in a small…
Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations
The New York Attorney General has accused cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud. The State’s Attorney General Letitia…