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US senator wants to ban ‘Big Tech’ from buying anything ever again
GOP Senator Josh Hawley, who has been a staunch critic of Big Tech over the past few years has introduced a bill that would ban all mergers and acquisitions by any company with a m...
Chinese tech start-ups pull IPO plans as Beijing tightens scrutiny
A growing number of Chinese tech start-ups are cancelling plans to list on Nasdaq-style markets at home with some eyeing Hong Kong share sales instead, as regulators tighten scruti...
China’s antitrust regulator bulking up as crackdown on behemoths widens
China’s competition watchdog is adding staff and other resources as it ramps up efforts to crack down on anti-competitive behaviour, especially among the country’s powe...
Sports streaming service DAZN weighs IPO to drive fresh growth
DAZN, the online sports broadcaster which this year snatched the rights to screen Italy’s top-flight soccer league from Sky, is considering the possibility of going public as...
Russian lawmaker floats idea of Zoom ban after it halts sales to state institutions
A lawmaker from Russia’s ruling party floated the idea of banning Zoom after the video conferencing company reportedly told its distributors to stop selling subscriptions to ...
Twitch will ban users for ‘severe misconduct’ that occurs away from the platform
Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the pl...
Viral audio app Clubhouse floats payments feature for creators
The fast-growth, invite-only audio-chat app Clubhouse has said it will launch a monetization feature for its creators on the platform and that it will not receive any payment from ...
US Supreme Court backs Google over Oracle in copyright case
The US Supreme Court handed Google a major victory, ruling that its use of Oracle’s software code to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world’s sm...
ByteDance says India’s freeze on bank accounts is harassment
ByteDance has told an Indian court that a government freeze on its bank accounts in a probe of possible tax evasion amounts to harassment and was done illegally, according to a fil...
Pakistan court lifts ban on social media app TikTok
A high court in Pakistan said the country’s telecommunications authority can lift a block on social media app TikTok, after government officials said the company was working ...
ByteDance says it is ‘bleeding’ due to India bank account freeze
An Indian court has granted no relief to the developer of TikTok in a case where the company challenged the local tax authority’s decision to block its Indian bank accounts, ...
Google: ‘not up to us’ to dictate how news companies spend its $1 billion
Google has reached licensing deals with over 600 news outlets around the world and is seeing a “huge increase” in users requesting more content from specific publicatio...
India blocks bank accounts of ByteDance, company mounts challenge
Indian authorities have blocked at least two of ByteDance’s bank accounts for alleged tax evasion, prompting it to ask a court to quash the directive that it fears will hit i...
Venezuela calls Facebook suspension of Maduro ‘digital totalitarianism’
Venezuela’s government has accused Facebook Inc of “digital totalitarianism” after it froze President Nicolas Maduro’s page for 30 days for violating its po...