SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Friday (Jul 10) said it suspended more than 50 white nationalist accounts for violating policies against violent extremism. “The accounts in question were suspended for violating our policies in relation to violent extremism,” a Twitter spokesman told AFP, confirming a report by NBC News. The move […]
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SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft’s LinkedIn was sued by a New York-based iPhone user on Friday (Jul 10) for allegedly reading and diverting users’ sensitive content from Apple’s Universal Clipboard application. According to Apple’s website, Universal Clipboard allows users to copy text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device and then […]
REUTERS: In the span of a few hours on Friday (Jul 10), Amazon.com Inc banned and then unbanned the TikTok video sharing app from employee mobile devices, calling the move a mistake. The news generated widespread attention for the Chinese-owned social media platform coming the same week US Secretary of […]
REUTERS: Facebook Inc is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the Nov. 3 elections in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the company’s thinking. The potential ban is only being discussed and has […]
LONDON: The British government is expected to set a deadline of 2025 for removing equipment made by China’s Huawei from the country’s 5G telecoms networks, the Telegraph newspaper said on Friday. The Telegraph reported that British culture minister Oliver Dowden will make a statement in Parliament on Tuesday about Huawei, […]
NEW YORK: Bank lenders for high-quality US companies are taking different refinancing avenues as they seek to extend maturities on billions of US dollars in loans at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has made liquidity a top priority. Corporations that historically kept their credit agreements intact while extending maturities […]
NEW DELHI/TAIPEI: Foxconn plans to invest up to US$1 billion to expand a factory in southern India where the Taiwanese contract manufacturer assembles Apple iPhones, two sources said. The move, the scale of which has not previously been reported, is part of a quiet and gradual production shift by Apple […]
Lando Norris’s hopes of a repeat podium at the Red Bull Ring faded on Friday when the McLaren driver was handed a three-place grid penalty in practice for Sunday’s Styrian Formula One Grand Prix. SPIELBERG, Austria: Lando Norris’s hopes of a repeat podium at the Red Bull Ring faded on […]
WASHINGTON: US producer prices unexpectedly fell in June as rising costs for energy goods were offset by weakness in services, pointing to subdued inflation that should allow the Federal Reserve to keep pumping money into the economy to arrest a downward spiral. Still, deflation remains unlikely as the economy battles […]
Lonza Group AG is in the “last step” of discussions with U.S. regulators for approval to claim that its formulation is effective in killing the novel Coronavirus on surfaces, an executive at the pharmaceutical and chemical giant told Reuters. REUTERS: Lonza Group AG is in the “last step” of discussions […]