SEOUL (Reuters) – The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers got access to a resettlement agency’s database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said Read more…
HANOI (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Grab was ordered to pay 4.8 billion dong ($206,985) in compensation to a local taxi operator by a Vietnamese court on Friday, sources and state media said. The 18-month-long legal Read more…
MUMBAI/DELHI (Reuters) – Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies is expected to record a 21 percent jump in revenue for 2018 to $109 billion, its rotating chairman said, marking the Chinese tech giant’s fastest pace of business growth Read more…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will ban e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com and Walmart-owned Flipkart Group from selling products from companies in which they have an equity interest. In a statement, the government also said Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s cyber watchdog on Wednesday issued new regulations for domestic financial information providers, in an apparent crackdown on online content deemed detrimental to the country’s financial stability as the economy slows. Financial Read more…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – On the sidewalks of Shanghai and Beijing, once bright-yellow Ofo bicycles lie in varying states of disrepair – chains unhooked, wheels buckled and paint starting to fade – reflecting the quick rise Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has authorised 10 government agencies to intercept and monitor information from any computer, a move opposition parties said on Friday risked creating a “surveillance state”. The home ministry said late Read more…
It’s Christmas time and in many countries companies spend huge amounts creating special advertisements. Some make you laugh, some make you happy, some will even make you cry, but all of them will make you Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: the moon wobbles; glowing food; Musk to live on Mars; Angry Birds AR; teenage kids really Read more…
ITEM: Microblogging site Tumblr banned “adult” content from its site as of December 17th. And the reasons behind it highlight the amount of control that web giants have over what people can and can’t see online. Read more…
JAIPUR/TONK, India (Reuters) – When India votes in a general election next year, it will be the world’s largest democratic exercise, and the biggest ever test of the role of social media in an election. Read more…
DHAKA (Reuters) – Facebook and Twitter said on Thursday they had removed accounts and fake news pages linked to the Bangladesh government which had posted anti-opposition content, days ahead of an election in the South Read more…
WASHINGTON/LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hackers working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and IBM, then used their access to hack into their clients’ computers, according Read more…
Remember the long running skirmish between the EU and Vodafone (mainly) over implementing the data roaming rules? Remember Vodafone (mainly) saying that if the rules were implemented the drop in revenue would badly hinder its Read more…
TM Forum is currently investigating ways to procure OSS without resorting to the current RFI / RFP approach. It has published the following survey results. As this survey shows, the RFI/RFP isn’t fit for purpose Read more…
ETSI has announced the creation of a new Industry Specification Group on Permissioned Distributed Ledgers (ISG PDL). The group will analyze and provide the foundations to operate permissioned distributed ledgers to be deployed across various Read more…
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – When Japanese recruiters plucked Liu Xueqin from her provincial hometown 33 years ago to work in an electronics factory in Shenzhen, she was happy to get a well-paid job and unaware Read more…
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and links to the country’s military. The social Read more…
The demise – or virtual demise – of Oath is, as Richard Windsor says, hardly a surprise. At the time it all took place, it was like watching the really cool kids pick their football Read more…
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