E-commerce sites operated by China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd were included on the U.S. government’s latest “notorious markets” list, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Thursday. The list identifies 42 online markets and 35 physical markets that are reported to engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy. […]
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Russia warned on Wednesday it would begin imposing advertising bans on large foreign technology companies that do not have official representation in the country by March, as Moscow advances efforts to exert greater control over the internet. Russian legislation has obliged foreign social media giants with more than 500,000 daily users to open offices in […]
Britain’s auto industry called on the country’s government on Wednesday to mandate targets for rolling out electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and create a new regulatory body to oversee the market conditions and enforce minimum standards. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said in a statement that the industry has come up with […]
The largest U.S. labor organization said Monday it strongly supported a U.S. House of Representatives bill designed to improve competition with China, boost U.S. semiconductor production and reform key trade provisions. The AFL-CIO trade federation representing 12.5 million workers said in a letter to lawmakers the bill’s $52 billion for chips is critical to “addressing […]
Vodafone has teamed up with Intel Corp and other silicon vendors to design its own chip architecture for nascent OpenRAN network technology, aiming to weaken the grip of traditional telecoms equipment suppliers. OpenRAN allows operators to mix and match suppliers in their radio networks, posing a challenge to the likes of Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government launched its United Nations (UN) platform, “Big Data for Sustainable Development,” in an initiative directed at fulfilling the requirements for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The declaration came throughout the “Mobilizing Big Data Science for the Sustainable Development Goals” forum, which was kicked off on January […]
The U.S. House of Representatives will soon introduce a bill to increase U.S. competitiveness with China and boost federal spending on semiconductors, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday as the Biden administration seeks to boost domestic chip production. “The House will soon introduce its competitiveness bill,” she said in a note to Democratic colleagues. The […]
The benefits and uses of mobile device management software According to the Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2021, 39 percent of UK businesses experienced a cybersecurity attack last year. For business owners, this statistic is worrying — risking reputation, integrity, and ultimately commercial success. As we move towards an increasingly technology-centric working world, what should […]
In an email sent to the then U.S.- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in 2018, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner showed interest in the possibility of releasing a federal cryptocurrency. According to the Freedom of Information Act request by CoinDesk, Kushner was studying the possibility of having a group of experts “brainstorm” to the right governmental parties the […]
Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements with authorities in the West African country, a senior government official said on Wednesday. The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 after it removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that […]