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India’s Chinese app ban seen jolting $1 billion expansion of ByteDance
By Aditya Kalra and Pei Li NEW DELHI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - An Indian ban on dozens of Chinese apps following a border clash between the two nations has possibly derailed a $1 billion India expansion p...
Jun 30, 2020
LinkedIn users ditch polite networking for real talk on U.S. race and inequity
By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) - "This is white supremacy. This is institutionalized racism," Aaisha Joseph, an executive assistant in New York City, posted on Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn in ear...
Jun 30, 2020
Puma pauses ads on Facebook and Instagram in July
BERLIN (Reuters) - German sportswear brand Puma said on Tuesday it will pause all paid advertising globally on Facebook and Instagram throughout July to persuade the social media company to remove hos...
Jun 30, 2020
EU antitrust regulators to rule on Mastercard’s Scandinavian e-pay deal by August 3
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will decide by Aug. 3 whether to clear Mastercard Inc's bid for part of Scandinavian payments group Nets, according to a European Commission filing. Master...
Jun 30, 2020
Four European countries have only Chinese gear in 4G networks, researcher says
TALLINN (Reuters) - Four European countries, including Belgium, use only Chinese gear in their 4G mobile networks and in many large countries more than 50% of equipment comes from China, Danish teleco...
Jun 30, 2020
Google stymies media companies from chipping away at its data dominance
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers and slash some of its dominance in onlin...
Jun 30, 2020
China says concerned about India banning Chinese apps
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it was concerned about India's decision to ban Chinese mobile apps such as Bytedance's TikTok and Tencent's WeChat and was making checks to verify the situati...
Jun 30, 2020
SoftBank’s Z Holdings sees Line merger slipping beyond October
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank's Z Holdings Corp said on Tuesday the closure of its merger with messaging app operator Line Corp will be later than October as previously stated due to regulatory approval ...
Jun 30, 2020
Australia to spend nearly $1 billion to boost cyber security
By Colin Packham and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will spend A$1.35 billion ($926.1 million) over the next 10 years to boost its cyber security defences, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said ...
Jun 30, 2020
New Zealand to use virtual digital platforms to host APEC summit
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand will use virtual digital platforms to host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group summit next year, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Tuesday. The deci...
Jun 29, 2020
