South Korea’s FSC and FSS carry out joint inspections on 6 banks trading in virtual currency

Institutions found not in compliance faces penal measures, including shutting down of operations. On Monday, South Korea’s financial regulator stated it has jointly carried out inspections on six local banks that offer virtual currency services, including opening of accounts, to institutions. In a press conference, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial Supervisory Service…

Exploitable vulnerabilities in CPUs put the bulk of modern mobile devices at risk

Security analysts have warned that hackers are likely to very quickly add exploit code for these vulnerabilities to their hacking tool set. While the updates for the Meltdown vulnerability has been made available for download from Google, Microsoft, and Apple, the patch for the more dangerous and difficult to plug named Spectre, still remains elusive.…

Amazon.com and Alphabet’s Google fought for market share this holiday shopping season

Analysts opine that consumers would largely prefer mid ranged priced smart speakers over one that costs hundreds of dollars. According to analysts, both Amazon.com and Alphabet Inc have heavily discounted their virtual assistant speakers during the U.S. holiday shopping season such that they have lost many dollars per speaker sold. The development underscores a sharp…

China to invest $2.12 billion for Artificial Intelligence park in Beijing’s Mentougou district

China wants to attract talent in AI areas of biometric identification, cloud computing, big data and deep learning and wants to apply them in military technology in order to gain a leverage over the United States. China is pushing ahead to fulfill its ambition of becoming a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2025 and…

Israel’s flag carrier El Al Israel Airlines Ltd to commence non-stop flights between Tel Aviv and San Francisco

With Israel being home to one of the biggest tech sectors in the world, the carrier is strategically re-branding itself and expanding its footprint in North America. On Wednesday, Israeli Airlines El Al Israel Airlines Ltd stated it will commence nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and San Francisco as it continues to expand its footprint…

Wixen Music Publishing Inc sues Sweden’s Spotify over copyright infringement for $1.6 billion

In its lawsuit Wixen Music Publishing has alleged that Spotify has made available thousands of songs to its users without getting a direct or a compulsory license from it which allows it to either distribute or reproduce the songs. Wixen Music Publishing Inc has sued Spotify, a music streaming company for allegedly using thousands of…

Britain could incentivize tech companies to remove extremist content from online platforms

Google’s YouTube has made rapid gains in machine learning technology and said, 83% of violent extremist content is removed without the need for human intervention. Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants, including Facebook, Apple and Google, as it finds way to mitigate the threat of online extremism by taking down material aimed at…

The tech sector emerges as the best performer in the European stock market

Shares of AMS, a chipmaker appreciated by 206% in 2017. On Friday, European stocks steadied their footings and were set to post their strongest gains since 2013 buoyed by surging tech stocks as well as a robust resources sector. Although the eurozone blue chip stocks dropped by 0.1%, the pan-European STOXX 600 index remained flat,…

South Korea to impose measures to reign in runaway speculation in Bitcoin

Among the measures South Korea will take is baning the anonymous opening of cryptocurrency accounts; the measures will also have legislative backing. On Thursday, the South Korean government said, it will impose additional restrictions in order to reign in wild speculation in Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, that is being traded within the country. “The government had…