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Beijing and Shanghai ponder driver restrictions for Uber, Didi Chuxing etc

October 10, 2016 News Centre 0

BEIJING (Reuters) – Regulators in Beijing and Shanghai are proposing restrictions on who can operate as drivers for ride-hailing services such as Didi Chuxing and Uber, possibly making it tougher for those services to recruit Read more…

Google goes great guns on Pixel marketing ahead of street debut

October 10, 2016 News Centre 0

(Reuters) – Google’s new Pixel smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads in two days since it announced the upcoming launch, and ad executives expect Google to spend Read more…

Alibaba’s Ant Financial gets new CEO via management shuffle

October 10, 2016 News Centre 0

BEIJING (Reuters) – Ant Financial Services Group, the online and mobile financial services affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, on Saturday shuffled top leadership positions, announcing the appointment of Read more…

Blockchain is cool but still has to prove it can be trusted: Fed governor

October 10, 2016 News Centre 0

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Blockchain, the technology behind the controversial bitcoin electronic currency, could lead to sweeping improvements in how financial transactions are carried out worldwide, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said on Friday. But only Read more…

Yahoo email spying allegations raise human rights concerns: UN official

October 10, 2016 News Centre 0

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Serious human rights concerns have been raised by a Reuters report that Yahoo had scanned the emails of hundreds of millions of users at the request of a US intelligence service, a Read more…

V2X tech connects cars to traffic lights via LTE in South Australia trial

October 7, 2016 John C. Tanner 0

ITEM: Telstra reports that it has successfully trialed Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology with Cohda Wireless over Telstra’s LTE network in South Australia. Telstra says the V2I trial is a pivotal first step in developing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Read more…

Beijing and Shanghai ponder driver restrictions for Uber, Didi Chuxing etc

Google goes great guns on Pixel marketing ahead of street debut

Alibaba’s Ant Financial gets new CEO via management shuffle

Blockchain is cool but still has to prove it can be trusted: Fed governor

Yahoo email spying allegations raise human rights concerns: UN official

V2X tech connects cars to traffic lights via LTE in South Australia trial

Snapchat IPO could be worth a whopping $25 billion: WSJ

India spectrum auction rakes in $9.9b as 700-900-MHz bands go unsold

Verizon wants $1b knocked off Yahoo buyout price: report

APAC drives mobile growth, content becomes revenue king: GSMA