As governmental entities abuse social media platforms’ influence on a universal scale, Facebook released on Wednesday a report highlighting its takedown on global disinformation networks promoting false information to manipulate the public’s opinion. One thing the January 6 Capitol riot uncovered is that social media platforms, especially Facebook, have an influential effect on shaping the […]
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China defined new rules on Tuesday to protect the rights of drivers in its giant ride-hailing industry, requiring operators of the services to provide them with social insurance and make their earnings public. As such, the rules came after Chinese regulators told companies including Didi Global, Meituan, Alibaba Group’s Ele.me and Tencent Holdings, in September, […]
In a positive development during an economic crisis, smartphones shipments within China rose 30.6 percent year-on-year to 32.7 million handsets in October, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) reported earlier last week. As such, 26 new models were released last month, up 4 percent from a year earlier, especially after a large fall […]
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 […]
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested for the appeals court to reject China Telecom Corp Ltd’s bid to continue providing services in the United States, after the FCC repealed its authorization to operate. “China Telecom has no likelihood of succeeding on its claims,” lawyers for the Justice Department and FCC wrote in a court […]
The cyberspace administration and police department related to China’s industry ministry said on Tuesday, it had summoned the cloud units of both Alibaba and Baidu Inc. urging them to better prevent telecom network fraud. according to a report in Reuters quoting the country’s industry ministry sources. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) cybersecurity […]
Taiwan’s Economy Minister Wang Mei-Hua revealed on Tuesday that the U.S. discussed with its country potential plans to address the semiconductor chip shortage, in addition to finding the needed approaches to counter China’s economic “coercion.” During the second session of an economic dialogue initiated last year, the discussion followed a week after a virtual meeting […]
E-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s shares plummeted on Thursday in both New York and Hong Kong listings by more than 10 percent, following the giant’s drastic cut in sales, led by slow growth in China’s consumer spending. Following the quarterly results, Alibaba revealed expectations of reaching a 20 to 30 percent rise in sales in the […]
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) revealed plans to more than triple the number of 5G base stations over the next four years, targeting a total of 3.64 million by end-2025, China Daily reported. As such, the country aims to get 56 percent of the country on 5G networks by the end of […]
With support from Huawei and China Mobile, Haier, China’s largest consumer electronics and home appliance producer, collaborated to apply innovative manufacturing solutions combining 5G and mobile edge computing in its smart factories. The three announced the breakthroughs in Qingdao, a city in China, late last week, with Huawei saying in a statement that “The solutions, […]