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Workers' paradise? Portugal's new teleworking law takes flak

Portugal’s new law on working from home makes the European Union country sound like a workers’ paradise. Companies can’t attempt to contact their staff outside working hours. They must help staff pay for their home gas, electric and internet bills. Bosses are forbidden from using digital software to track what their teleworkers are doing. There’s […]

Washington Expands Blacklist of Chinese Tech Firms

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 […]

Edmunds: Low inventory means high car prices on Black Friday

This has been a tough year to buy a new or used car in America. With COVID-19 factory shutdowns, semiconductor chip shortages, rising prices and supply chain issues, it’s been nothing but bad news for car shoppers. And for those who’ve waited, hoping Black Friday sales would bring some reprieve from high prices, we’re afraid […]

UK draws up plans to heighten digitalization of global trading

The UK government’s Board of Trade uncovered Friday a report with plans to enhance digitalization of global trading to deliver significant opportunities for local businesses to play a role in empowering economic growth. The board, led by the country’s trade minister Anne Marie Trevelyan, structured the report to highlight the vitality of heightening digitalization of […]

Comium thanks the Gambian authorities for intervening to resolve Comium conflict, as it welcomes investments from Monty Mobile

Comium, who settled fully its pending license fees (2020 and 2021) before their due date, based on PURA’s request, thanked on Wednesday November 24, 2021 The Gambia’s President his excellency Mr. Adama Barrow, its attorney general and minister of justice honorable Mr. Dawda Jallow, its Minister of information and Communication Infrastructure honorable Mr. Ebrima Sillah […]

Senate Calls for Testimony from Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri

Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri, will give testimony before Congress on December 6th, in a set of hearings for the platform’s approaches towards teens’ online protection, The New York Times reported. The testimony will be a follow-up after Senate lawmakers intensified their scrutinizing gaze on the platform concerning how its parent company Meta – previously Facebook – […]

AT&T, Verizon comply to FAA demands to limit 5G rollout

Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) examination into whether the C-band spectrum for 5G rollout jeopardizes aircrafts’ safety, AT&T Verizon extended Wednesday their offer to reform power from their fifth-generation cell towers for the upcoming six months. Both U.S.-based telcos structured a plan to launch vital improvements to their 5G networks operating C-band spectrum obtained […]

Apple suing Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group

Tech giant Apple announced Tuesday it is suing Israel’s NSO Group, seeking to block the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company from breaking into Apple’s products, like the iPhone. Apple said in a complaint filed in federal court in California that NSO Group employees are “amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery […]

Samsung says it will build $17B chip factory in Texas

Samsung said it plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory outside of Austin, Texas, amid a global shortage of chips used in phones, cars and other electronic devices. “This is the largest foreign direct investment in the state of Texas, ever,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in announcing the project Tuesday. Samsung said it […]