According to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, regardless of how China’s ByteDance positions the divestment of its short video sharing app TikTok, U.S. President Donald Trump does not want it to have a controlling stake in TikTok, since it will place Americans’ personal information at risk. Despite China’s bravado…
On Friday, in a statement Apple Inc said, it will launch its first online store in India on September 23; the date of the launch assumes significance and is strategic since it coincides with India’s festive season which routinely rakes in some of the biggest sales for retailers every year. Currently, Apple sells its products…
Chinese consumers are rushing to purchase Huawei’s smartphone featuring its high-end Kirin chips, fearing that the company’s production of its premium handsets will face punitive curbs by U.S. trade action. According to Huaqiangbei, smartphone vendors in China’s southern city of Shenzhen, are seeing a steady rise in the prices of used and new Huawei phones…
According to a research report commissioned by Kaspersky, two thirds of those who were surveyed in leading Western European countries consider technology induced augmentation of human body parts, most of which are related to improving health, will improve their lives. With technological revolutions shaping humanities near future, tech leaders opine it will change every aspect…
An upsurge in its number of users during the novel coronavirous pandemic for its Switch Online subscription service was reported by Japan’s gaming company Nintendo on Wednesday. The company said that the surge in demand for its services was led by hit titles such as Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This has helped the company to…
In a strategic move, Apple Inc has rolled out a new virtual fitness service as well as a bundle of all its subscriptions, Apple One. The holiday-season launch of its services, the backbone of its growth engine, caters to customers working at home in the COVID-19 induced pandemic. Apple has also launched the Apple Watch…
A settlement amount of $1.5bn has been agreed to be paid by German automaker Daimler AG and its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA to the United States government and California state regulators towards settling of charges against it to cheating emission tests. Charges of violating environmental laws through the use of the so-called “defeat device software” to…
On Tuesday, in a statement Uber said, it plans on winning back its license to operate in the city of London. The move comes in the wake of Britain’s transport regulator banning Uber from operating in the city over safety concerns. In 2019, Transport for London (TfL) had refused to grant Uber a new license…
On Tuesday, in a statement, China’s social media and gaming group Tencent said, it plans on opening a new office in Singapore which will be its regional hub for Southeast Asia. “The new office is a strategic addition to our current offices in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand,” said the company in a statement.
On Monday, in a statement Amazon.com Inc said, it is ramping up its recruitment drive and will be hiring 100,000 more workers – its fourth hiring spree, to keep pace with surging e-commerce demand. The hiring positions will be full time and part time and will be based in its home country as well as…
