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China regulator bars Tencent from exclusive rights in online music
China’s market regulator on Saturday said it would bar Tencent Holdings Ltd from exclusive music copyright agreements and fined the company for unfair market practices in the...
US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The US, UK and and various allies have accused China of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacki...
US appeals courts dismiss government’s appeals of TikTok rulings
Two US appeals courts dismissed the Justice’s Department’s legal challenges to court rulings that barred a Trump-era effort to ban new downloads of Chinese-owned video-...
FCC votes to finalize program to replace Huawei equipment in US networks
The US Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to finalize a $1.9 billion program to reimburse mostly rural US carriers for removing equipment from telecommunications n...
Biden taps ex-Pentagon official for key China tech position
Joe Biden has nominated Alan Estevez, a former Pentagon official and Washington insider to be the US Commerce Department’s undersecretary for industry and security, a key pos...
Huawei and Verizon agree to settle patent lawsuits
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies and Verizon Communications agreed to settle a pair of lawsuits alleging patent infringement, the companies both have said.
China says measures applied to Ant Group to be imposed on other payment firms
China’s central bank has said that anti-monopoly measures applied to e-commerce giant Alibaba’s financial technology affiliate Ant Group will also be imposed on other p...
What is driving China’s clampdown on Didi and data security?
China’s cyberspace regulator has launched a probe into ride-hailing giant Didi Global, calling for it to stop adding new users and for app stores to remove it, days after it ...
Weibo chairman, state firm plan to take China’s Twitter private
Nasdaq-listed Weibo Corp’s chairman and a Chinese state investor plan to take China’s answer to Twitter private, sending its shares as much as 50% higher.
Industry group warns law changes may force tech firms to quit Hong Kong
An Asian industry group that includes Google, Facebook and Twitter has warned that tech companies could stop offering their services in Hong Kong if the Chinese territory proceeds ...
Chinese antitrust regulator to block Tencent’s videogaming merger
China’s antitrust regulator is set to formally block Tencent’s plan to merge the country’s top two videogame streaming sites, Huya and DouYu, three people familia...
Didi cybersecurity probe blindsides shareholders days after debut
Chinese regulators have gained a reputation for aggressive action, but even hardened investors were shocked by the announcement of a probe into ride-hailing firm Didi just two days...
Didi app takedown may hit revenue, other US-listed Chinese firms probed
Ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc said a regulatory order that its app be removed from app stores in China could hurt revenue, while other newly US-listed Chinese firms also found...
China orders Didi app downloads suspended over data violation
China’s cyberspace regulator has said that it had ordered smartphone app stores to stop offering Didi Global Inc’s app after finding that the ride-hailing giant had ill...