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ByteDance acquires gaming studio Mooton, flaring up rivalry with Tencent

TikTok parent company ByteDance announced on Monday that its video games arm, Nuverse, has acquired China-based Mooton Technology, as the company looks to further expand within the gaming industry, Reuters reported. ByteDance’s desire to bolster its position within the video gaming industry, places it directly in competition with China’s largest social media and gaming company […]

Apple ordered to pay $308.5 million in patent infringement case

Apple Inc. has been slapped with a $308.5 million penalty to be paid to Personalized Media Communications (PMC) following a decision by a federal judge in Texas that found the company infringing a tech patent related to data rights management. The patent in question primarily dealt with a “method of decrypting programming at a receiver […]

AI robot vacuum slated for release this spring from Dreame Technology

Beijing-based Dreame Technology, a company specialized in smart home cleaning appliances, plans to launch this spring a new AI robot vacuum cleaner. The Dreame Bot L10 Pro will feature precise navigation, intelligent obstacle recognition and avoidance, as well as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for a three-dimensional environment, the company said in a statement. Company […]

TPG acquires 7.5% of Airtel Africa’s mobile money business

U.S.-based private equity firm TPG announced on Thursday that it has acquired a 7.5 percent stake in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business for a sum of $200 million, the telco said in a statement. Airtel Africa, the African arm of India’s Bharti Airtel, is also currently holding further negotiations with other companies to sell off […]

FCC eyes up 3 new Chinese telecoms companies for CCMC designation

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is eyeing up to three new Chinese telecoms companies for potential addition to the U.S.’ Communist Chinese military companies (CCMC) designation, the regulator announced on Wednesday. The FCC launched proceedings to determine whether to end authorization, China Unicom Americas, Pacific Networks and its wholly owned subsidiary ComNet’s authority to provide […]

E-cigarette market to reach $39 billion sales by 2030

While smoking has been a phenomenon for many centuries in human history, e-cigarettes are still in their nascent years, only being introduced in the later part of the 21st century. While its emergence was relatively low, and only used by chain smokers looking for a way out, the explosive rise of JUUL really propelled the […]

Ooredoo reaches top 40 global telcos for the first time

Qatari telecoms giant Ooredoo Group announced on Sunday that it has reached the 40th position in the top 50 global telecommunications brands, up one place from 41 in 2020, as confirmed by the Brand Finance Telecoms 150, 2021 report. This is the fifth consecutive year where Ooredoo Group has appeared on the list, as it […]