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…
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…
Amidst pressure from the United States for a boycott and with the European Union lawmakers passing a law earlier this week pledging to increase the number of suppliers of equipment for 5G networks, the Chinese telecom equipment making giant Huawei is set to face a challenge in the United Kingdom because the leading telecom service…
