Verizon Communications said on Thursday it was pausing advertising on Facebook in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.
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Amazon.com has agreed to pay over $1-billion to buy self-driving start-up Zoox, according to a report. It would would expand its reach in autonomous vehicle technology.
Naspers affiliate Tencent is buying certain assets of iFlix, a struggling streaming platform with about 25 million users focused in South and Southeast Asia.
Google will begin paying select media outlets featured in a yet-to-be released news service later this year, a major business shift for the search engine.
The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including Huawei and Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new financial sanctions.
Brazil’s central bank has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, the app’s second biggest market with more than 120 million users.
Twitter placed a warning notice on a tweet by US President Donald Trump threatening “serious force” against protesters in the US capital, the second time it has used the label.
A supercomputer developed by Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken research institute was ranked the world’s fastest in an independent survey, beating US and Chinese rivals.
Microsoft is closing down Mixer, its live streaming service for games, and shifting users to Facebook Gaming, the technology giant’s Xbox division said on Monday.
China has penalised 10 of the country’s most popular live-streaming apps, suspending some of their operations in a renewed crackdown on fast-growing services.