Tech
Exclusive: China Would Rather See TikTok U.S. Close Than A Forced Sale - Sources
Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
France Wants EU To Push Ahead With Digital Tax If Global Efforts Fail
The European Union should push ahead with its own digital tax in the first quarter of 2021 if broader efforts to find an international solution do not bring a breakthrough this year, the French finance minister said on Friday.
ByteDance To Invest Billions, Recruit Hundreds In Singapore In Three Years - Source
ByteDance, the owner of popular shortvideo app TikTok, is planning to invest billions of dollars and recruit hundreds of employees in Singapore over the next three years, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
Factbox: What Is QAnon And How Are Social Media Sites Handling It?
Social media companies Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have announced crackdowns on content linked with the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory QAnon.
Trump Says There Will Be No Extension Of TikTok Deadline
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the deadline set for Chinese company ByteDance to sell its popular shortvideo app TikTok's U.S. assets would not be extended.
Exclusive: Baidu, Investors In Talks To Raise $2 Billion For Biotech Startup - Source
Chinese tech giant Baidu is in talks with investors to raise up to $2 billion over three years for a biotech startup, which will use AI technology to discover new drugs and diagnose diseases, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Tesla Shares Plunge As It Fails To Make It Into S&P 500 Index
Tesla Inc tumbled as much as 20% on Tuesday after its surprise exclusion from the S&P 500 index added to the broader selloff in technology stocks, which have dominated Wall Street's recovery from the coronavirusdriven crash earlier this year.
Move Aside Robots, Tesla Bets On Aluminium Casting
Robots are not efficient enough for Tesla's new car factory in Germany, which plans to replace hundreds of them with giant aluminium casting machines to build simpler chassis parts, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
GM Venture's Mini Car Becomes China's Most Sold EV, Surpassing Tesla's Model 3
A micro electric vehicle (EV) by General Motors' local Chinese joint venture becomes the most sold EV model in China, with 15,000 cars sold in China last month, followed by Tesla Inc's 11,800 Model 3 sedans, industry data showed.
Mysterious Crater That Is 100 Feet Deep Has Opened Up In Siberia, And No One Knows Why
It isn’t just any small crater though—this has been measured at around 100 feet deep and 20 meters wide. It is one of the largest, if not the largest of the nine craters that have appeared so far in the regions of the Yamal Peninsula and the Gyda Peninsul...
'SheCodes' Innovation Challenge Introduced By Dell in Association With Niti Aayog
The aim of the SheCodes challenge is to bring forward girls who can contribute to innovations in water conservation and management, waste management, clean energy, smart mobility, health, agri-tech, architecture and design, and UN Sustainable Development...
India Could Clock More Than $100 Billion In Mobile Phone Exports As Apple And Samsung Lead The Way
Apple and Samsung plan to export phones worth $50 billon each over the next five years. There are also five Indian phone makers or manufacturers, including Micromax, Lava, Karbonn, Optiemus and Dixon who will be exporting mobile phones from India.
Facebook Removes Pages Of rIght-wIng Group Patriot Prayer After Portland Unrest
Facebook Inc on Friday removed the pages of U.S. rightwing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters.
Pentagon: RE-Evaluation Finds MIcrosoft's JEDI Proposal Still Is Best
The U.S. Defense Department said on Friday it has completed a comprehensive reevaluation of its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract proposals and determined that Microsoft Corp's submission still represents the best value for the government.
PUBG Mobile Ban: Tencent Has Lost About $34 Billion in Just Two Days
PUBG Mobile's developer Tencent is losing its market value due to the recent ban of 118 Chinese apps in India.
U.S. Court: Mass Surveillance Program Exposed By Snowden Was Illegal
Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly...
