After losing appeals for being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), state-owned operator, China Mobile Ltd. revealed intentions of raising $7.64 billion in a Shanghai listing on Tuesday. The move will mark the largest equity fundraisings for 2021 and came due to the NYSE decision to adhere to an investment blacklist presented by […]
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Cryptocurrency executives went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to say their fast-growing industry understands more regulation is likely coming, but they don’t want it to squelch the next wave of the internet or send it offshore to other countries. Leaders from major crypto exchanges, mining and other related businesses testified for four-and-a-half hours before the financial […]
When looking at any timeline’s history, you will find a turning point along its development; either it propels the timeline into the next frontier or brings it to a screeching halt. Modern technology’s explosion into the data age was set in 2007. A year that set the tone for generations to come, birthing giants, affecting […]
The fueled tension between Washington and Beijing marched into new territory as the U.S. expressed plans on Thursday to take measures to curb exports of surveillance tech and a diversified list of innovations, used by governmental authorities to suppress human rights. The Biden Administration’s soon to be occasioned initiative will be initiated with U.S. allied […]
A disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts — including one belonging to a fictitious Swiss biologist — to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coronavirus, Facebook said Wednesday. The company based in Menlo Park, California, did not directly attribute the […]
As U.S. pressure intensifies on Chinese tech firms, the Commerce Department blacklisted Wednesday a new list of Chinese firms under the pretense of direct affiliation with the Communist Party Apparatus. Officials have taken these measures as a plan to halt rising American technologies from being implemented for quantum computing purposes, given it would aid the […]
Britain’s Prince Harry has sharply attacked the failure of social media companies to challenge hate online, revealing that he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the site was being used to stage political unrest. Harry made the comments Tuesday in an online panel on misinformation in California. […]
Brazil held its much-anticipated auction for build-out of the nation’s fifth-generation wireless network on Thursday, with the open question of whether China’s Huawei telecommunications company will be involved. The technology promises faster speeds, less lag when connecting to the network and the ability to connect more devices to the internet. But the ambitious auction also […]
ByteDance is planning to disjoin its global social media sensation, TikTok, into a solitary business unite, following an executive decision to break down the company into six entities, according to Reuters. Chief executive officer (CEO), Liang Rubo, has initiated plans to refurbish the technology enterprise into various parts, following founder Zhang Yiming’s decision to retire from […]
U.S. regulators are expelling a unit of China Telecom Ltd., one of the country’s three major state-owned carriers, from the American market as a national security threat amid rising tension with Beijing. China Telecom (Americas) Corp. is required to stop providing domestic interstate and international service in the United States within 60 days, under an […]