China’s new rules forbidding under-18s from playing videogames for more than three hours a week knocked shares in Tencent, while young players took to social media to express their outrage.
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Technology investor Prosus said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy Indian payments platform BillDesk for $4.7-billion to complement its own PayU business.
China will forbid minors from gaming more than three hours most weeks of the year, imposing their strictest controls yet in a blow to the world’s largest mobile gaming arena.
“Fomo” remains alive and well in the cryptocurrency world, with lesser-known tokens outperforming again in the wake of recent rallies staged by industry leaders bitcoin and ether.
Apple has acquired classical-music streaming service Primephonic and plans to launch an app dedicated to the genre next year.
Leaded petrol has been eliminated after the world’s last remaining stocks were used up last month. Algeria, the only country still pumping leaded petrol into vehicles, exhausted its final stocks in July.
Microsoft has warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases.
Nvidia is likely to seek EU antitrust approval for its $54-billion takeover of British chip designer ARM early next month, with regulators expected to launch a full-scale investigation after a preliminary review.
Chinese regulators are seeking to implement far-reaching rules about the algorithms technology companies use to recommend videos and other content.
Apple settled a wide-ranging class action lawsuit with US app makers on Thursday, announcing changes to the App Store such as giving developers more flexibility to advertise outside payment methods.