Australia finalised plans on Tuesday to make Facebook and Google pay its media outlets for news content, a world-first move aimed at protecting independent journalism.
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Facebook will soon be hit by federal and state antitrust lawsuits accusing the social media giant of abusing its dominance and thwarting competition, according to three people familiar with the matter.
LG Electronics has reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low-end to mid-tier smartphones, which analysts said represented an attempt to cut costs and compete with Chinese rivals.
Airbnb is requiring most professional hosts outside North America to include all service fees in the rate presented to guests, a move that mirrors how rival platforms operate.
Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, he said, as Nasa nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Eight years after first being announced, with three missed deadlines and roughly $130-million spent, CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 is finally coming to market.
MicroStrategy has bought more bitcoin. The company paid $50-million for more of the world’s largest cryptocurrency at an average purchase price of $19 427, it said in a filing.
A deadline set by the Trump administration for the forced sale of TikTok’s US assets is expected to come and go on Friday night without a final deal, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The US justice department is discussing a deal that would allow the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies to return home to China from Canada in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in a criminal case.
Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, called on US President-elect Joe Biden to unite the Internet’s “regulatory planets” of India and the European Union against the influence of China.