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While Twitter does allow for the sharing of videos, most posts contain short text messages and photos or GIFs. In 2012 Twitter acquired the platform Vine, which allowed users to share short videos, but shut down the service in 2016. (Photo | MaxPixel.net)

Twitter also in talks to purchase TikTok, says report

Twitter's bid is a long shot, but it believes it would face less antitrust scrutiny than larger corporations such as...

9 Aug 2020 10:21 AM GMT

Washington cut off Huaweis access to US components and technology including Googles music and other smartphone services last year. Those restrictions were tightened in May when the White House barred vendors worldwide from using US technology to produce components for Huawei. (Photo | AFP)

Isolated by US, Huawei can produce smartphone chips no more

Huawei CEO Yu Chengdong said Friday that production of the company's high-end Kirin 9000 chipset would stop from...

8 Aug 2020 3:23 PM GMT

China has long limited what foreign tech companies can do in the country. Now its getting a taste of its own medicineand its bitter. (Photo | AFP - Getty Images)

Are Trump's moves pushing the US and China into a tech face-off?

China's restrictions on foreign tech firms helped nurture homegrown tech giants. Now the US is putting its own limits on...

8 Aug 2020 2:10 PM GMT

Companies providing goods and services that differ from the competition through application of non-personal data stand to lose their comparative advantage if the data is treated as a public good. (Photo | Flickr - Kevin Zollman)

Tech This Week | India needs to be more mindful in regulating...

If non-personal data is made subject to mandatory sharing, data businesses will begin classifying such data as personal.

8 Aug 2020 12:54 PM GMT

The important Chinese market, which is very restrictive for foreign firms, represents a drop in the ocean of Microsofts business, accounting for barely 1.8 percent of its turnover, president Brad Smith said at the beginning of the year.

Here's how Microsoft entered and managed to stay in China

The software giant has kept its business alive in the country by complying with the strict local laws on censorship.

8 Aug 2020 11:34 AM GMT

Facebook has removed 35 Facebook accounts, three pages, and 88 Instagram accounts, security policy head Nathaniel Gleicher said. The people behind this network used fake accounts to pose as Americans, amplify and comment on their own content, and manage pages including some posing as President Trump fan pages. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook, Twitter crack down on Russia, China agents trying to sway US...

State-led influence campaigns were prominent on social media during the 2016 US elections and have been seen around the...

7 Aug 2020 1:41 PM GMT

People take part in a protest against a judicial reform bill announced by the government, in front of the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, on August 1, 2020, during the COVID-9 pademic. - Argentinas government opposition fierly criticised the reform bill on grounds that it would grant impunity to former government officials facing corruption allegations, including now vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. (Photo | AFP)

Google search result calls Argentine vice-president called 'thief',...

Facing charges in nine cases, Cristina Kirchner was twice ordered into pre-trial detention, but parliamentary immunity...

7 Aug 2020 11:27 AM GMT

Its unclear whether the Presidents executive order bars Americans from using TikTok, and even if it does its not enforceable as users will continue using the app over a VPN. (Photo | AP)

Explainer: What does Trump's order mean for TikTok, WeChat in US?

Trump's order appears to formalise his threat to shut down TikTok unless Microsoft or some other American company buys...

7 Aug 2020 8:27 AM GMT

Nintendo Switch sales, both of the handheld machines and software games, were zooming amid the pandemic. The various online games in its lineup, including those for mobile devices, were also drawing more people. (Photo of Nintendo Switch Lite | Nintendo.com)

Nintendo achieves profit target as more people take to gaming during...

Sony Corp., which too has a game unit with its PlayStation series, also reported positive results earlier this week.

6 Aug 2020 3:20 PM GMT

TikToks forced sale of its US business to an American company could fuel calls in many nations for local control over internet platforms and data storage within their own national borders.

Forcing TikTok to sell its US business could end up killing the open...

Analysts say the deal could result in data nationalism and have far-reaching effects.

6 Aug 2020 2:49 PM GMT

Zhang Yiming finds himself under enormous pressure as he tries to assure the world that TikTok is safe and secure, while also protecting his image at home by not appearing to give in to demands from the West. (Photo | bytedance.com)

ByteDance boss in a predicament over Trump's ultimatum on TikTok

Zhang Yiming has been given just six weeks to find a buyer for the app in the United States or have it banned in its...

6 Aug 2020 1:35 PM GMT

A group of children and parents protested the hybrid reopening of schools because they would prefer children to attend school five days a week, as before the pandemic. How likely children are to contract or spread the coronavirus has become a deeply contentious issue in the US, with reopening schools essential to enabling many parents to go back to work. Children are known to be far less likely to fall seriously ill or die from the virus: less than one percent of children who test positive for COVID-19 end up dying, according to a Europe-wide study released in June. (Photo | AP)

Trump's Facebook, Twitter post removed for saying children 'almost...

Action taken over 'misinformation', but the American Academy of Pediatrics says children appear to transmit COVID-19...

6 Aug 2020 11:55 AM GMT