Tech
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About $8bn erased from market value as Intel suffers ‘historic collapse’
Intel Corp saw about $8 billion wiped off its market value on Friday after the U.S. chipmaker stumped Wall Street with dismal earnings projections, fanning fears around a slump in the personal-comput…
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Twitter says suspended users can now appeal account from February
Twitter users will be able to appeal account suspensions and be evaluated under the social media platform’s new criteria for reinstatement, starting Feb. 1, the company said on Friday. Under the new …
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Australia begin probing social media influencers for false endorsements
Australia’s competition regulator said on Friday it would check whether influencers on social media platforms had failed to disclose their affiliation with the brands they were promoting. The Austral…
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Japan, Netherlands to join U.S. in blocking chip equipment export to China -Bloomberg
Japan and the Netherlands will soon agree to join the United States in restricting exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, Bloomberg News reported. Talks between the countries will…
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Meta set to restore Donald Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts after 2-year ban
Meta Platforms Inc said Wednesday it will reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol …
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Microsoft restore services following world-wide cloud outage
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions…
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Tesla eyes $3.6bn Nevada expansion to make Semi truck, battery cells
Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it would invest more than $3.6 billion to expand its Nevada Gigafactory complex with two new factories, one to mass produce its long-delayed Semi electric truck and the othe…
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Data shows Twitter ad spending crashed by over 70% in Dec
Advertising spend on Twitter Inc dropped by 71% in December, data from an advertising research firm showed, as top advertisers slashed their spending on the social-media platform after Elon Musk’s ta…
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India begin testing locally developed OS in major blow to Google
India’s government on Tuesday tested locally developed mobile operating system BharOS, a move seen as challenging the dominance of Google’s Android just days after the U.S. giant suffered a major ant…
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German cartel drags PayPal to court over payment brouhaha
Germany’s cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe over the possibility that it hindered competition. The subject of the proceedings w…