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…
According to the results of a survey by a subsidiary of courier giant DHL, despite the U.S.-China trade war rolling onto its 16th month and continuing to disrupt well established supply chains, more than a quarter of multinational firms have yet to make contingency plans. The survey by DHL Resilience360, a supply chain risk management…
According to a report from Japan’s Kyodo News, Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co and Mitsubishi Motors Corp have agreed to form a new company focused on research and development of advanced automotive technologies. The trio’s new alliance will announce concrete plans in January 2020, reported Kyodo citing sources familiar with the matter. This new strategic…
According to two sources, the U.S. government is likely to fine tune and expand laws that govern sale of U.S. technology and technological products to foreign companies, midst efforts to further tighten the blacklisting of China Huawei. In May 2019, the U.S. Commerce Department had placed Huawei Technologies on an Entity List citing national security…
According to a report from Korean news site ETNews, quoting sources in the smartphone industry, in 2020, the major focus of innovation at Apple Inc will be to bring in variations in the screen sizes of its iPhones with both larger and smaller screen sizes of the models currently available. a new iPhone with the…
The alliance between the French car maker Renault and the Japanese auto companies Nissan and Mitsubishi is being attempted to be revived to its former glory by the companies with the appointment of a general secretary to take exclusive care of the partnership – the largest in terms of production capacity in the global auto…
Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi plan on appointing a general secretary at the helm of their alliance in order to reboot the partnership and boost operations. Renault is in the process of repairing its relationship with its Japanese partners following allegations of financial misconduct its earlier chairman. “This alliance executive will be key for coordinating and…
In less than a week after its launch, orders for Tesla Inc’s new electric pickup Cybertruck have are close to breaking the record set by the Model 3 sedan in 2016. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO has signaled that 250,000 customers have lined up to buy the Cybertruck. In an apparent reference to the number of…
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