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Rakuten raided by anti-trust officials
Japanese anti-trust officials have raided the offices of Rakuten Inc after complaints from online merchants. The complaints against the Tokyo-based e-commerce platform relate to a new free shipping policy due to come into effect in March.
Nintendo CEO says it has no plans for a new Switch in 2020
The Chief Executive Officer of Nintendo Co. Ltd, Shuntaro Furukawa has stated that the gaming company has no plans to launch a new version of its wildly popular Switch gaming device in 2020.
Facebook restricts employee travel to China amid Coronavirus concern
Facebook Inc has become one of the first US technology companies to ask its employees to suspend any and all non-essential travel to China. They hope to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, also known as known as 2019-nCoV, to employees of the com...
Apple hits back at the European Union over universal charger proposal
Apple has hit back against European Union lawmakers renewed call for a common smartphone charger, warning the move could hamper innovation across the industry.
Macron and Trump agree to tariff truce in digital tax dispute
The President of France has tweeted that he had a “great discussion” with President of the United States, Donald Trump over a digital tax that France had been planning. The Emmanuel Macron went on to state that “we will work together on a good ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for overhaul of corporate tax
Interested to read that Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook has acknowledged that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled, thus becoming one of the first CEO’s of major tech businesses to endorse potential changes to global rules.
Amazon will invest $1 billion in digitising SME’s in India
Amazon.com Inc’s founder Jeff Bezos has stated that will invest $1 billion in digitising small and medium-sized business across India. Additionally, it expects to export $10 billion worth of India-made goods by the year 2025.
US officials hold last-minute talks with UK over Huawei decision
A delegation of US government officials will arrive in London on the 13th January in the latest attempt to persuade the British government not to use equipment from Huawei, the Chinese technology company in the upgrade of its telecoms infrastructure.
UK government outlines a £40 million overhaul to outdated NHS technology platforms
Fresh from winning a landslide majority in the recent UK General Election, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has stated that it is time to “get the basics right” with regard to IT systems and logins within the countries socialised healthc...
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