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Tencent shares tumble after China’s regulations on music rights

Shares in Shenzhen-based media titan Tencent tumbled on Monday following China’s verdict to restrict its private music licensing deals with record labels around the globe, halting the platform’s efforts to show sovereignty over online music streaming in the country. On Saturday, China’s State Administration of Market Regulations (SAMR) announced that the firm is not abiding […]

Watch out from malware riddled Windows 11

If you’re interested in enjoying the latest release of Windows 11, then you should beware of a couple things first.  The release of Windows 11 came with more than just notable upgrades, as vicious malware is floating in several fake installers of the newest version, according to Kaspersky.  The multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider warned Windows users that cybercriminals are taking full advantage […]

Monty Mobile’s Show ID

Monty Mobile is on a quest to provide its userbase with the right tools to carry out control over mobile services, while meeting and exceeding any form of basic services. With the Show ID application, all calls conducted with contacts and companies will be synchronized, registering all calls made or received on the app. Show […]

Telia Eesti 5G network reaches 77 regions in Estonia

Estonian Telecom Telia Eesti announced last week that it’s 5G network is currently available in 77 locations across 14 main cities within the country.  Telia Eesti — one of the Baltic region’s main telecom suppliers and subsidiary of Swedish provider Telia — revealed that it’s planning to invest more in the construction of 5G.  By the end of the year, the Estonia-based company plans to expand the new generation mobile network to more than 100 locations, including various county centers.  Currently, Telia’s 5G […]

Snapchat’s growth records all time high after 4 years of drought

Snapchat, the social media application that everyone used back in the day just rose back from its pitfall.  From its inception in 2011, the messaging application was the first to introduce the concept of pictures and messages being only available for a short period of time before becoming inaccessible to recipients.   Ten years later, and the wondrous little app is witnessing its […]

Tech cash cow: embedded finance to reach $138bn by 2026

There has never been a time where technology has been such a cash cow more than now; especially with the emergence of embedded finance within every corner of almost every app we use day-in and day-out.   All of us at some points have used embedded finance whenever we use a service on our phone. For those who aren’t familiar […]

Priest outed via Grindr app highlights rampant data tracking

When a religious publication used smartphone app data to deduce the sexual orientation of a high-ranking Roman Catholic official, it exposed a problem that goes far beyond a debate over church doctrine and priestly celibacy. With few U.S. restrictions on what companies can do with the vast amount of data they collect from web page […]

Microsoft to open $2 bn data center in India

U.S. tech giant Microsoft is in the final stages of talks with the Telangana government in India to set up a data center with an investment ranging between $2 billion to $2.25 billion, local media reports.  If the discussions come to fruition, this would be one of the major investments of Microsoft outside the U.S.  A few months earlier, Telangana Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao […]

Kaseya gets master decryption key after July 4 global attack

The Florida company whose software was exploited in the devastating Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack, Kaseya, has received a universal key that will decrypt all of the more than 1,000 businesses and public organizations crippled in the global incident. Kaseya spokeswoman Dana Liedholm would not say Thursday how the key was obtained or whether […]

Protests erupt in India's Parliament over spyware scandal

India’s Parliament erupted in protests on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists. The session was disrupted repeatedly as opposition lawmakers shouted slogans against Modi’s government and demanded an investigation into how the spyware, known as Pegasus, was used in India. […]