Technology

SHANGHAI – Tencent Holdings fired more than 100 employees on suspicion of graft after a series of investigations over the past year, offering a rare glimpse into an anti-corruption campaign within China’s most valuable corporation. The…
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SAN FRANCISCO – Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday (Feb 2) reported that its quarterly profit rocketed some 50 per cent to US$15.2 billion (S$20.2 billion) at the end of last year as its digital ad business thrived. Alphabet revenue in the…
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On Monday, Twitter temporarily blocked people in India from viewing several accounts belonging to activists, political commentators, a popular movie star, and a leading investigative journalism magazine, the Caravan, on orders from the…
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Amazon has filed a petition in an Indian court seeking detention of Future Group’s founder and seizure of assets for violating an arbitration court’s order that temporarily halted the sale of its retail operations to Reliance Industries,…
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WASHINGTON – Major technology companies like Google and Microsoft, as well as telecommunications giants such as Comcast and Verizon, are among the nearly 1,000 people and groups that have donated at least US$200 (S$265) to the committee…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that the company is blocking President Donald Trump from its platform “indefinitely.” The ban will be in place for “at least the next two weeks,” the company said. This is the first time a…
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She was in her early 20s, and she was working hard to help to win market share for a tech company run by China’s second-richest man. The employee, named Fei, collapsed in the wee hours of Dec. 29 after a long shift working at online…
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NEW YORK • The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it will delist three Chinese corporations to comply with a US executive order that imposed restrictions on companies identified as affiliated with the Chinese military. China Mobile,…
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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an array of laws on Wednesday (Dec 30) handing the country new powers to restrict US social media giants, label individuals “foreign agents”, and to crack down on the disclosure of its…
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HONG KONG • Jack Ma’s under-seige Ant Group is planning to fold its financial operations into a holding company that could be regulated more like a bank, according to people familiar with the situation, potentially crippling the growth of…
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