Facebook’s Libra faces support test after payment giants jump ship
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency faces a pivotal meeting of backers on Monday, days after the ambitious project to bring digital coins into mainstream commerce suffered a...
New German rules leave 5G telecoms door open to Huawei
Germany has finalised rules for the build-out of 5G mobile networks that, in a snub to the United States, will not exclude China’s Huawei Technologies....
Russia’s Yandex releases rival to China’s TikTok app
Russian internet firm Yandex on Monday released a short video app for fashion and style that it hopes will compete with China’s TikTok app....
Blizzard Entertainment cuts punishment for gamer in HK protests row
U.S. games publisher Blizzard Entertainment has reduced the punishment dealt out to a Hong Kong-based Hearthstone esports gamer for his public support of pro-democracy protests...
EU to investigate Hungarian state aid for Samsung SDI’s battery cell plant
EU antitrust regulators on Monday voiced doubts whether Budapest’s plan to grant 108 million euros ($119.2 million) to Samsung SDI’s battery cell production facility in...
Facebook’s Libra faces support test after big payment backers quit
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency faces a pivotal meeting of backers on Monday, days after the would-be digital coin project suffered a severe blow as major payment...
German security rulebook to keep 5G door open to Huawei: source
A new German security rulebook will not exclude Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies from supplying gear for the country’s 5G mobile networks, a senior...
Indonesia completes fiber-optic network to bring internet to remote east
Indonesia has completed the last leg of a 13,000-km (8,080 mile) fiber-optic network that will bring high-speed internet to some of its poorest regions in...
WeWork opens new sites at breakneck speed despite cash-burn concerns
WeWork has opened almost as many new locations in the last 3-1/2 months as it did in the whole first half of this year, likely...
Blizzard Entertainment cuts punishment for HK gamer in protests row
Blizzard Entertainment has reduced the punishment that it dealt out to a Hong Kong-based Hearthstone esports player for his public support of pro-democracy protests in...