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Asia stocks advance, tech giants rally after Fed report

Asian stocks mostly rose Thursday after the Federal Reserve kept its accommodative monetary policies and signaled that economic recovery was on track. Chinese technology giants led the way, as authorities moved to soothe jitters over anti-monopoly and data security enforcement against the industry. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.4% to 27,687.28, while the Kospi in South […]

Maroc Telecom takes 5.8% plunge in first half profit

Morocco’s largest telecoms operator, Maroc telecoms reported a 5.8 percent decline in its revenues of $317 million for the initial half of 2021. Due to lower mobile usage, the Moroccan telecom provider experienced a 3 percent plunge in its revenues during the first two quarters of the current year. However, it wasn’t all doom and […]

Instagram’s new settings target creepy adults

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Viewing your child’s social media accounts only to find obscene messages from older users intended for your preteen son or daughter. Unfortunately, nightmares like this are a reality for a rapidly increasing number of parents, as more youngsters’ dive into the social media world.  Luckily, Instagram has decided to take it in their hands to put an end to child predators roaming the photo and video-sharing site. […]

Google’s 2021 Q2 soars as antitrust grip tightens

Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc, recorded on Tuesday a rising profit in second quarter revenue, despite heated antitrust regulations and prosecutions, the search giant marked its highest mark so far of quarterly revenue. Amidst the latest antitrust cold war between Big Tech companies and Washington in the last quarter, Google and Alphabet Inc. tallied in […]

eBay cyberstalking schemer sentenced to 18 months in prison

Former eBay security manager Philip Cooke was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison for his role in an intense cyberstalking campaign against a pair of eBay critics.   U.S. district judge Allison Burroughs issued the sentence nine months after Cooke was found guilty to conspiracy of cyberstalking and tampering with witnesses.  According to federal prosecutors and a lawsuit filed last week by the victims, a group of eBay employees led by executives began in 2019 targeting the […]

Maxima Telecom wins $13.5M contract for biometric cameras in Moscow

Moscow’s public Wi-Fi provider, Maxima Telecom, won earlier this month a $13.6 million contract for the installation of 2000 biometric cameras on the roads of the capital, according to Russian media reports.  The contract was completed with the Center for Traffic Management of Moscow. It aims to deploy a neural network in the capital that will receive data from cameras, record accidents, fires and other incidents, and report them […]

LinkedIn skyrockets to $10 billion in revenue for the first time

For the first time, LinkedIn has officially surpassed $10 billion in annual revenue, five years after Microsoft announced its decision to acquire the platform for more than $26 billion, the company reported on its recent fiscal report released on Tuesday. Although Microsoft did not exactly reveal the number of the profits and losses made, officials did state that LinkedIn’s revenues were up by 46 percent in […]

Bitcoin jumps on speculation that Amazon considering crypto

Bitcoin’s price surged again Monday after speculation that Amazon may be entering the cryptocurrency sector after it posted a job seeking a “digital currency and blockchain product lead.” Bitcoin jumped more than 14% in the past 24 hours, nearly reaching $40,000 per unit before settling closer to $37,000. The five-week intra-day high reached Monday comes […]

5G standalone and non-standalone in a nutshell

Everyone interested in reading about developments in telecommunication technology has had their minds and screens bombarded with news about 5G development and its rapid adoption around the world.  It’s that thing that, when the ribbon is cut, will give us ten times the throughput, ten times less latency, and 100 times more capacity that the currently available 4G LTE.   What many telecoms novices don’t know is […]