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…
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