Why China is hobbling its tech sector
Scuttled listings and share prices hammered by official threats: Beijing has launched a withering and very public assault on some of China's biggest tech names.
Jul 11, 2021
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Google faces French ruling on copyright row with media groups
France's competition regulator said Friday that it would issue a ruling Tuesday on whether Google was negotiating "in good faith" with news publishers over payments for using their content alongside search results.
Jul 09, 2021
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Square making real-world wallet for bitcoin
Financial payments startup Square was at work Friday on a real-world wallet for safely pocketing bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Jul 10, 2021
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Google wants people in office, despite productivity gains at home
Google software engineers reported something in a recent survey that surprised higher-ups: they felt as productive working from home as they did before the pandemic.
Jul 16, 2021
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G20 endorses historic global tax reform
G20 finance ministers on Saturday gave their backing to a historic deal to overhaul the way multinational companies are taxed, and urged hold-out countries to get on board.
Jul 10, 2021
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Bezos leaves enduring legacy as he steps away as Amazon CEO
As he prepares to blast off into a new career stage, Jeff Bezos leaves an enduring legacy after transforming Amazon from a modest online bookseller into one of the world's most powerful corporations.
Jul 04, 2021
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Boeing set to face investor scrutiny as problems plague jets
The aviation industry appears to finally be past the worst of the coronavirus downturn, but Boeing's to-do list remains extensive following a messy start to 2021.
Jul 25, 2021
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Qualcomm beefs up artificial intelligence team with purchase of Twenty Billion Neurons
Qualcomm said Monday that it recently acquired the assets of Twenty Billion Neurons, a Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence/computer vision startup that develops avatars that can see and interact with people in a human-like ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online
Good-faith disagreements are a normal part of society and building strong relationships. Yet it's difficult to engage in good-faith disagreements on the internet, and people reach less common ground online compared with face-to-face ...
Jul 08, 2021
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Employers bow down to tech workers in hottest job market seen since the dot-com era
There's an air of desperation among tech employers this summer. Software talent, it seems, is in such high demand that companies are morphing how they hire. And workers are the ones with the power.
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