Nestle’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public water supply, ruled second-highest court of Michigan, United States. Analysts see this as a blow for the company’s Ice Mountain water brand. On the other hand, for Osceola township, a small mid-Michigan town, this verdict is a victory. The town had prevented…
On Thursday, Australia started an investigation into the potential usage of foreign influence using social media platforms such as WeChat, Facebook, and Twitter. The development comes in the wake of heightened concerns in the country that China is seeking to cast its influence in Canberra’s affairs. In the past, Russia had used social media to…
As per a Bloomberg report citing sources familiar with the matter at hand the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has broadened its scrutiny of Amazon.com Inc beyond its retail operations and now includes its cloud-computing business as well. As per the report, U.S. antitrust enforcers have been asking software companies questions pertaining to Amazon Web…
The United States chip making giant Qualcomm was meted out a record $873 million fine in South Korea over issues related to unfair business practices with respect to patent licensing and modem chip sales which was again upheld on Wednesday by a court in the country. Qualcomm said that it would contest the latest court…
In an effort to simplify the management structure at Google and its parent company Alphabet, the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have decided to relinquish their positions as CEO and president of Alphabet. The reigns of the company would be handed over completely to the current Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “With Alphabet…
United Airlines Holdings Inc announced it has placed an order for 50 A321XLR jets from Airbus SE which will fly between the U.S East Coast and Europe. With this United Airlines has become the latest U.S. airliner to purchase passenger jets from Airbus rather than Boeing. United Airlines aims to replace 53 Boeing 757-200 with…
In a development that underscores deepening legal troubles for Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, a California college student has filed a class-action lawsuit against it alleging that it has transferred private user data to servers in China. The allegations deepen legal troubles for TikTok, owned by Beijing ByteDance Technology Co, in the United States, and comes…
A “potential counterintelligence threat” is posed by FaceApp and other mobile applications that have been developed in Russia, said United State’s FBI. These comments were made by the US investigating agency in a letter to US Senator Chuck Schumer after an investigation into the app was demanded by him. Privacy concerns propped up after the…
In a statement, the European Commission said, it is investigating how Facebook collects and monetizes its data. The development signals the opening of a second front, on top of an existing investigation, into Facebook’s marketplace. As part of preliminary investigations into both Facebook and Google, the EU executive said, it had sent out questionnaires to…
As per a report from the Mail and the Globe, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei stated, the Chinese telecommunication giant wants to boost its factory capacity in Europe to and build 5G equipment there. With these moves, Huawei aims to assuage fears that its equipment could be used by Chinese intelligence for espionage purposes. Huawei also…
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