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Trump’s order taking aim at Twitter is ‘bluster’ – legal experts
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to curb what he claims is social media censorship is a political gambit and will not change the legal obligations of companies...
May 28, 2020
Explainer: What is Section 230 – and can Trump change it?
By Jonathan Weber and Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a federal law known as Section 230, which protects internet companies like Facebook, ...
May 28, 2020
Google says use existing EU laws, not new ones to govern AI
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google has called on the European Union to use current EU laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence rather than draft new ones and cautioned against a one ...
May 28, 2020
French COVID-19 tracing app to be available from June 2: PM
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government's contact-tracing app to curb the new coronavirus outbreak spread will be available from June 2, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told a news conference on Thurs...
May 28, 2020
Canada’s Huawei extradition ruling could unleash more Chinese backlash
By David Ljunggren and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive to the United States leaves Canada vu...
May 28, 2020
Volkswagen becomes biggest shareholder of China’s EV battery maker Guoxuan
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - German automaker Volkswagen AG has become the biggest shareholder of China's electric vehicle battery maker Guoxuan High-Tech Co Ltd with a 26.5% stake, Guoxuan said in s...
May 28, 2020
If Trump kicks out Twitter, there’s always Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - If U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to close Twitter , the micro-blogging site can always relocate to Germany. After Trump threatened to shut down Twitter for ...
May 28, 2020
DoorDash to create websites for restaurants’ online food ordering
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Food delivery company DoorDash will announce on Thursday a service to help restaurants build their own websites for online ordering so they do not have to pay marke...
May 28, 2020
Exclusive: TikTok owner ByteDance moves to shift power out of China – sources
By Yingzhi Yang, Echo Wang and Alexandra Alper BEIJING/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - TikTok's poaching of Disney's Kevin Mayer to be its CEO was just the most visible part of a broader strategy by i...
May 28, 2020
LabCorp to work with software provider for virtual clinical trials
(Reuters) - Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) said on Thursday it was collaborating with software provider Medable to accelerate adoption of virtual clinical trials. Medable's modul...
May 28, 2020
