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Chinese Web Giant Alibaba Manager Fired After Possible Sexual Abuse
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has fired a manager after a female employee reported being assaulted by her boss and a customer via the company's intranet.
The woman published her 11-page statement on Alibaba's…
Game Giant Nintendo Sells Fewer Consoles Year After Lockdown Hit
Nintendo recorded lower sales in the past quarter. However, the Japanese game company scored another big hit last year with the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which was seen as the game to get through the lockdown…
Regulators Crack Google for Opaque Services
It is still too unclear for consumers who use Google services how the technology group works. For example, it is not always clear why Google ranks certain search results higher than others with the search engine.
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Twitter Ends Fleets Function for Temporary Messages Again
Messaging service Twitter will pull the plug on Fleets on August 8. With which you can post temporary stories, the gadget was only introduced eight months ago, but it attracted too few users.
Fleets are similar…
Head of Facebook Mobile App Becomes CEO at Instacart
Fidji Simo, who has held senior positions at Facebook for the past ten years, is moving to Instacart. She becomes CEO of the online grocer.
Until recently, Fidji Simo headed the mobile app at Facebook. During…
EU Rules Must Force Apple to Allow Payment Services
The EU must draft new rules forcing mobile phone manufacturers to open up the existing NFC chips to other services.
Without that access, for example, banks invest less money in the development of payment…
Project Liberty: $100 Million Against Data Collection Internet Giants
American entrepreneur Frank McCourt will invest up to 100 million dollars in, among other things, the development of an alternative internet protocol against the 'stranglehold' of social media platforms on users' data.…
Microsoft WVC is Now Called Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft is announcing new capabilities, new app streaming pricing and a name change for the Windows Virtual Desktop service.
It now listens to the name Azure Virtual Desktop.
Microsoft profiles Azure Virtual…
Chinese Tesla Deliveries Recover from April Dip
Car manufacturer Tesla delivered significantly more cars in China in May compared to a month earlier. The automaker recovered from the dip in deliveries in April, when car production was temporarily suspended due to…
Europe Focuses on Facebook Marketplace
The European Commission wants to investigate whether Facebook misuses advertisers' data to compete with those same advertisers with its ad platform.
Facebook is used by nearly three billion people every month,…