On Monday, the Justice Department announced the extradition of Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin to the U.S. from Switzerland for charges in an insider trading scheme to infiltrate U.S. computer networks. The owner of the Russian company, M-13, Klyushin, is charged with four others for potentially hacking into significant publicly traded U.S. firms to access earnings […]
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Software maker Oracle is buying electronic medical records company Cerner in an all-cash deal valued at about $28.3 billion. Oracle will pay $95 per Cerner share and the deal is expected to close next year. Hospitals and physicians offices use Cerner software to record and share health and medical data. The companies said Monday that […]
A week after removing its listing from Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup, SenseTime Group, relaunched its $767 million initial public offering (IPO) on Monday. The company pulled out its offering amidst escalating geopolitical tension between China and the U.S. after Washington accused the firm of creating facial recognition tools to identify […]
European Union (EU) lawmakers backed a set of new rules on Wednesday directed at breaking down the authority of the Big Tech league in an unprecedented act to restrict their influence. The Digital Market Act (DMA) was structured to restrict limitations on these companies’ demeanor, in addition to imposing rules directed at their plans to […]
U.S. military officers in the Pacific region developed a software tool to accurately forecast Beijing’s responses towards Washington’s plans in the Indo-Pacific province, including military activity supported by the U.S. During her visit to the United States Indo-Pacific Command in Huawei on Tuesday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was informed of the latest military […]
Human resources and upper management wouldn’t deal with her accusation of sexual assault, a former employee of Alibaba said. So she went into the busy cafeteria at the Chinese e-commerce giant’s headquarters and screamed out her plight. Now she’s facing online harassment, accusations of lying from the wives of the two men she accused and […]
New York City is poised to bar most new buildings from using natural gas within a few years, after lawmakers voted Wednesday to make the United States’ most populous city a showcase for a climate-change-fighting policy that has been both embraced and blocked elsewhere. If Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio signs the measure, as expected, […]
In a fierce attempt to expose affiliates linked to China’s Xinjiang surveillance accusations, The Washington Post publicized on Tuesday a hidden aspect revealing Huawei’s association in persecuting against the region’s ethnic minorities. The leaked PowerPoint presentations acquired by the news outlet revealed that it had obtained the documents through a public Huawei site before being removed by […]
In a Financial Times report released on Wednesday, the U.S. publicized intentions of intensifying its grip on Chinese firms by expanding its blacklist to include commercial drone maker DJI as well as several biotech firms. The report caused shares of Chinese healthcare and technology firms to drop as investors shudder with worry from the news’ […]
The company working to build a mine in southeast Nebraska to extract a rare element used to make steel lighter and stronger said Tuesday that it may also be able to produce some of the key ingredients needed to make the powerful magnets used in electric vehicles and other high-tech products. NioCorp Developments released a […]