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Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony’s PlayStation
A unit of Sony Corp has made a minority investment in Discord Inc as part of a deal to tie in the messaging platform with the consumer electronics company’s PlayStation gamin...
Impact of Apple ad tracking changes will hinge on app developers
The impact of Apple Inc’s new privacy controls over digital advertising tracking is likely to depend greatly on how app developers implement a new pop-up notification, Apple&...
Viable plan or security theatre? The EU embraces vaccine passports
As the EU races to set up a digital health pass scheme to save the holiday season from the pandemic, technical and political obstacles are showing just how big a challenge the worl...
Apple to bring social media platform Parler back to App Store
Apple will bring controversial social media app Parler back to its App Store according to a letter sent to two Republican lawmakers.
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 ...
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...
Oman blocks Clubhouse citing lack of permit
Oman has blocked US-based audio app Clubhouse because it did not have the right permit, authorities said, but some activists described the move as a further erosion of freedom of e...
South Korean tech firms shake up Japan’s storied manga industry
Two South Korean platforms are borrowing from mobile gaming to shake up – and dominate – Japan’s manga industry, a plot twist that has expanded the comics’ ...
Robinhood added 6 million crypto users in last two months
Controversial online brokerage Robinhood has said it has garnered 6 million new users for its cryptocurrency services in the first two months of 2021 amid higher retail trading vol...
GameStop frenzy sparks fresh investment in stock-trading apps
The recent trading frenzy centred on GameStop and other “meme” stocks is sparking a wave of investor interest in start-ups aiming to mimic the success of Robinhood, whose no-fee br...
GameStop: Wall Street versus the people of Reddit
On three hours of sleep and with no time to eat, one New York-based hedge fund manager overseeing billions in assets called last week the most stressful of his life.
Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users
Google’s iPhone apps such as Google Maps and YouTube will stop using a tool supplied by Apple that permits them to personalize ads, averting a new Apple warning that informs ...
India retains its ban on 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok and WeChat
The Indian government has decided to keep its ban on the viral TikTok apps and 58 other China-made apps after reviewing responses from the businesses in question on issues such as ...
India’s reserve bank creates a panel to investigate digital lending practices
The Reserve Bank of India has said it had formed a working group to look into digital lending practices, after reports of policy offenses and debtor harassment by several digital l...