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Google faces grilling on ad business before U.S. Senate antitrust panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google will be questioned about its ad business in a hearing on Tuesday, with a particular focus expected on whether it misused its dominance in online advertisin...
Sep 15, 2020
EU top court gives thumbs up to net neutrality rules
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's highest court on Tuesday gave its backing to the European Union's net neutrality rules which require telecoms operators to treat all Internet traffic equa...
Sep 15, 2020
Ex-Leumi CEO Russak-Aminoach to head new Team8 fintech venture
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli cyber group Team8 said on Tuesday it had hired former Bank Leumi chief executive Rakefet Russak-Aminoach to lead a new division that aims to develop financial technology ...
Sep 15, 2020
Pandemic-proof Apple to kick off lineup for critical holiday season
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Apple Inc shares have soared this year even as a pandemic has crippled economies around the world, thanks in large part to booming product sales that have beat Wall Stree...
Sep 15, 2020
ByteDance’s Chinese version of TikTok hits 600 million daily users
By Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Douyin, the Chinese version of short video app TikTok, hit 600 million daily active users in August, an executive with parent company ByteDance said ...
Sep 15, 2020
How ByteDance’s CEO balked at selling TikTok’s U.S. business
By Echo Wang, Keith Zhai and Joshua Franklin (Reuters) - ByteDance founder and CEO Yiming Zhang's decision to drop his pursuit of a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to Microsoft Corp in favor of a par...
Sep 15, 2020
Facebook launches climate science info center amid fake news criticism
By Foo Yun Chee and Katie Paul BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook on Tuesday launched a climate science information center to elevate credible sources on climate change, as critics question i...
Sep 15, 2020
Tencent says will open a regional hub in Singapore for Southeast Asia
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese gaming and social media group Tencent said on Tuesday it would open a new office in Singapore that will be its regional hub for Southeast Asia. "The new office is a strat...
Sep 14, 2020
Uber fights to win back London licence in latest court battle
By Costas Pitas LONDON, Sep 15 (Reuters) - Taxi app Uber will battle in court on Tuesday to win back its licence to operate in London after the city's transport regulator removed it over safety concer...
Sep 14, 2020
Factbox: Where do Trump and Biden stand on tech policy issues?
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - The regulation of big technology companies including Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google has been a hot button issue ahead of the U.S. presidential election on No...
Sep 14, 2020
