The California, United States based video conferencing app owner Zoom has become very popular in China in recent months as the Chinese found this app a way to get connected with the outside world with the so called Great Internet Wall, a form of state censorship on the internet in China. However the services seem…
Face masks or all riders availing Uber services in the United Kingdom will be made mandatory by the ride sharing company starting next week. The measure was being taken by it “to help everyone stay safe”, said the minicab app firm. It added that measures to give access to drivers to protective equipment have also…
As many as 1,200 stores worldwide of the owner of the clothing brand Zara will be closed in an effort to provide a boost to the online sale of clothing amidst the chaos to its business because of the outbreak novel coronavirus pandemic. Between 1,000 and 1,200 mainly smaller stores will be “absorbed” by it,…
In an interview to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Todd Chapman stated, Washington is in talks with Brasilia on a funding framework for the acquisition of 5G telecommunications gear produced by Nokia and Ericsson. This type of funding is a matter of “national security” to Washington and aims to “protect…
After it came under the scanner of the authorities in the United States over security concerns, Chinese-owned short video app TikTok now is set to be face regulatory scrutiny in Europe. The data processing activities and privacy practices across the European Union of the ByteDance-owned app will now be investigated by the e European Data…
The restart of production of main factory of United States based electric car maker Tesla in California is having problems, according to media reports. Apart from threatening to move Tesla operations out of California, the CEO of the company last month also sued the Alameda County to force it to allow the company to restart…
More than 170,000 twitter accounts that were allegedly linked to an operation to spread pro-China messages have been removed by Twitter, the social micro blogging site has been has said. Making the announcement, the social media platform said that some of the accounts were engaged in posting about the coronavirus outbreak. “A core network” of…
In a significant development Twitter said, it had removed more than 170,000 accounts tied to a Beijing-backed influence operation that tried to deceptively spread messages favorable to the Chinese government including those related to the coronavirus. Twitter suspended a core network of 23,750 highly active accounts along with a larger network of nearly 150,000 “amplifier”…
Following a statement from California-based Zoom Video Communications Inc wherein it said it had suspended user accounts to meet demands from China, three U.S. lawmakers have asked Zoom to clarify its data-collection practices as well as its relationship with the Chinese government. Zoom’s action has come under heavy scrutiny after three U.S. and Hong Kong-based…
On Friday, a spokesman for Japan’s Honda Motor Co stated, production at its automobile and motorcycle plants in the United States and other countries have resumed following a suspected cyber attack earlier this week. The suspected attack comes less than a month after Honda reopened its vehicle assembly plants in North America following closure of…
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