Tech
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WhatsApp Business users jump four-fold in three years
Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp Business application is now catering to more than 200 million users on its platform, a four-fold jump from about three years ago, chief Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. The i…
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EU to set legal table in bid to push digital currency
The European Union is due on Wednesday to publish draft rules that give legal underpinnings for a digital euro, if the European Central Bank decided to issue one in coming years. Central banks across…
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YouTube is testing an online-games offering
YouTube is internally testing a product for playing online games, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing an email sent to employees at parent company Google. The company invited its employ…
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Netflix CEO vows to fully inject $2.5bn investment in local Korean local talent
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos pledged on Thursday that its bumper investment in South Korean content would not bypass young local talent, after calls by some lawmakers for the streaming giant to share …
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YouTube services back up for most users
User reports of outages at Alphabet Inc’s YouTube and YouTube TV fell sharply early on Friday from a peak of over 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube, outage tracking website Dow…
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Facebook to end news access in Canada over incoming law on paying publishers
Meta Platforms In plans to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada once a parliament-approved legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers comes into effe…
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Twitter dragged to court over failure to pay millions in worker bonuses
Twitter Inc is facing a lawsuit claiming it failed to pay workers millions of dollars in promised bonuses, adding to a pile of court cases filed since Elon Musk acquired the social media company. Mar…
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U.S. accused Amazon of duping millions into enrolling in Prime, then making it ‘impossible’ to cancel
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Amazon.com of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Amazon Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them …
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Teleperformance signs $185 million deal with Microsoft to launch GenAI tool
France’s Teleperformance signed a $185 million deal with Microsoft to launch its proprietary TP GenAI, the outsourcing group said on Tuesday, ahead of its artificial intelligence investor day. Telepe…
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YouTube to launch its first official shopping channel in South Korea -Yonhap
YouTube will launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce in South Korea on June 30, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday. South Korea already has a booming live-streaming commerc…