Among the first things that that the military rulers of Myanmar did after the coup on Monday was to ban Facebook in the country where almost half of the population are users of the social media. According to analysts that order on Facebook by the military rulers also capped off a long standing...

According to the Norwegian telecom Telenor, access to Twitter and Instagram have been ordered to be blocked for users in Myanmar until “further notice”. This blockade was ordered issued to the mobile operators and internet service providers by the new military rulers of the country on Friday after...

Google attempted to show as being unnecessary the proposed new law in Australia about sharing revenues with the new outlets whose content is used by the search engine giant by launching a platform in Australia that offers the news that it has paid for to acquire as it strikes its own content...

Following a $5.4 billion initial public offering (IPO) by Kuaishou Technology on Friday, the shares of the tech firm increased by three-fold at the Hong Kong stock market.   According to analysts this surge in demand for the company’s shares reflect a global retail trading frenzy which drew...

The South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is planning to set up a new $17 billion chip plant and is considering Austin, Texas, in the United States as one of the possible sites. According to documents filed with Texas state officials by Samsung, this new factory will help to...

The novel coronavirus or the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a major shift of consumers towards online shopping and digital transactions which has turned out to be very beneficial for the digital payments firm PayPal Holdings Inc.   The company comfortably beat estimates quarterly profit...

The United States based auto giant Ford Motor said that it has decided to bring an end to its planned partnership with China's Zotye Automobile for launching and manufacturing of electric vehicle through a joint venture.   Since Ford had signed the joint venture agreement with the Chinese...

The news laws proposed in Australia that would force internet giants Google and Facebook Inc to shell out money to the domestic media outlets for using their content was fully supported on Wednesday by the United States based software giant Microsoft Corp.   “While Microsoft is not subject...

Google parent Alphabet Inc announced plans for hiring and facility construction after the company reported better than expected quarterly sales from its advertising and Cloud businesses which was partly driven by the pandemic.   The lockdowns imposed to prevent the spread of the Covid-19...

There are concerns among a section of the executives of the South Korean auto major Hyundai Motor Group about a tie up with the iPhone maker Apple as over ears of becoming a contract manufacturer for the United States based tech giant which has apparently reduced the chances for a deal between the...

The Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corp promised to provide the "safest mobility" of the world while unveiling of its Woven Planet research unit at a virtual media event on Friday even as auto and tech companies are rushing to develop self-driving and connected cars which also includes Toyota....