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India’s Foxconn iPhone facility to reopen Jan 12

Foxconn, Apple Inc’s supplier, announced it would reopen its iPhone facility on January 12, in Southern India, according to Reuters. Late Friday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin informed the state assembly for the area that the plant will resume work on Wednesday of this week, according to K Selvaperunthagai, a member of the assembly. […]

French IT Consulting Company Atos Issues a New Profit Warning

French technology consulting company Atos issued a profit warning on Monday, its second in seven months and coming just several days after its new CEO Rodolphe Belmer, appointed in October, officially took over the reins. Atos said its financial objectives stated in July could not be met, due both to delays on deals with customers […]

EU plans law requiring tech firms to do more to combat child abuse

The European Union plans to legislate in the coming months to require technology companies to do more to tackle child sexual abuse, beefing up current voluntary arrangements, a top official said in a newspaper interview. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag that internet service providers and social media firms had […]

Google Launches Ripple Project, as Automakers League Rears to Challenge Tesla

Google uncovered plans to bring forth an open-source application programming interface (API) standard called Ripple Project that would help bring multi-functional small chips to various devices, including electric vehicles (EV). Since 2015, Google openly revealed that it was entering the gates of chip-making with its tiny radar chips that can keep score of sleep schedules, […]

Reddit taps Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs for IPO

Social media platform Reddit Inc, whose message boards became central to meme stock trading frenzy in 2021, is tapping Wall Street banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group for its initial public offering, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Reddit had confidentially filed for an IPO in December and is aiming […]

French regulatory authority fines Google, Facebook for Cookie tracking

On Tuesday, Alphabet’s unit, Google, was hit with a $169 million fine by France’s data privacy watchdog, Commission Nationale de L’information et des Libertés (CNIL), for implementing restrictions for users to decline cookies – online trackers. Facebook’s parent company, Meta Inc, was also caught in the regulatory crossfire, as it was also fined $67.82 million […]

Batelco rolls out a merchant-focused eCommerce platform, Batelco eSuite

Bahrain-based telecom services company Batelco recently started its eCommerce platform, Batelco eSuite, in an effort to set up stores that are online, according to a TradeArabia report earlier last week.    According to a press release, retailers won’t have a hard time surfing the website/store for the fact that it is user-friendly and provides clear instructionsfor users. Also, customers can have […]

GameStop Soars on Building NFT Trading Hub, Crypto Partnerships

GameStop Corp’s plans to expand its non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace and partner with crypto firms boosted the video game retailer’s shares by 17.5 percent in premarket trading and also lifted other meme stocks. GameStop shares have been languishing for a while, like several other meme stocks, as interest from retail investors dwindled. The lot, which […]

Sounding Alarm on China, Japan and U.S. Vow to Collaborate More on Defense

The United States and Japan on Friday voiced strong concern about China’s growing might and pledged to work together to push back against attempts to destabilize the region, including against emerging defense threats. The comments from the two allies, in a joint statement that followed a virtual “two-plus-two” meeting of their foreign and defence ministers, […]

Cryptocurrency Synchronizes with the Global Market Drop

As trading volumes dry up, potential open interests hinder, and the number of active addresses slumbers, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies’ value fell on Thursday, led by the Federal Reserve’s December meeting reaching risk assets worldwide. According to Coin Metric data, the godfather of all digital assets, Bitcoin, fell by eight percent in 24 hours after […]