Rural America is worried about the state of US-China relations. Agriculture players, including sorghum farmers in Texas and cranberry growers in Wisconsin, will feel the pain from a tariffs spat between the two nations. Less noticed, internet users in rural areas will suffer, too, thanks to a different sort of tension—about national security.
Most Chinese consumers have likely never heard of SenseTime. But depending on where they live, it might be looking at their faces several times a day.
In China, sometimes everything is political—even an emoji.
On April 10 Mark Zuckerberg appeared at a Senate hearing to defend his company’s data protection policies following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a research firm that worked with the Trump campaign, surreptitiously harvested information from 87 million Facebook users.
Reddit’s r/funny is the social media company’s second-most popular forum, where users share memes about current events, celebrities, and of course, corgis and the like. It’s also a preferred target for Russia’s armies of trolls to spread propaganda.
In May 2015, about one year before the Philippines went to the polls that brought Rodrigo Duterte to power, Alexander Nix showed up at Manila’s National Press Club.
In China, there are three startups valued at over a billion dollars each specializing exclusively in facial recognition. Alibaba is now an investor in two of them.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before US lawmakers next week. The hearings follow a privacy scandal centered around Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based company that surreptitiously harvested user data to aid the Trump campaign. Facebook revealed yesterday that Cambridge Analytica might have gathered data on up to 87 million users—much higher than the 50 million initially reported.
Details are trickling out on the identity of the woman who shot three employees at YouTube’s headquarters in northern California on Tuesday (April 3), before killing herself.
With a multibillion-dollar acquisition, a Chinese start-up rivalry that has been running for years is losing importance, and a new one is deepening.
Security experts have alleged that US bakery-cafe chain Panera Bread had “millions” of customers’ personal information available and searchable on its site for at least eight months, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft.
In an effort to improve public perception about its management of user data, Facebook is going after one of the features that has made it so successful—targeted ads.
A years-long competition is coming to an end now that Uber is ceding its business in Southeast Asia to Grab, its chief rival in the region.
After news broke recently that Cambridge Analytica surreptitiously collected Facebook user data to help the Trump campaign, a key individual remained noticeably quiet: Mark Zuckerberg. Now, the Facebook CEO is making a press push and hinting that regulating the social media company won’t be off limits.
As Facebook faces fallout from a major scandal involving the use of its data by Cambridge Analytica, a British firm that profiled and targeted voters for the Trump campaign, public figures in the tech industry are speaking out against the social network. Chief among them is one of the biggest beneficiary’s of Facebook’s success.
Five months—that’s how long it took for the Weinstein Company to fall apart after scores of women accused co-founder and co-chairman Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment.
When China’s Alibaba purchased a 51% stake in Lazada about two years ago, it was betting on one of the few online shopping giants in Southeast Asia. Now the region is becoming far more competitive, prompting the e-commerce juggernaut to get even more involved, announcing today an additional investment of $2 billion in Lazada.
A string of bombings continues to rattle the city of Austin, Texas, with a fourth explosion occurring shortly after local police urged the individual or individuals behind the incidents to contact them in a televised news conference.
As the public grows more concerned about the heaps of harmful or misleading videos on YouTube, the company is looking for ways to clean itself up.
A contentious, long-gestating bid to take over an iconic US tech company has ended—and Washington’s wariness of China’s tech ambitions is only beginning.
Twitter’s coveted blue checkmarks might soon become widespread across the social network.
Donald Trump had nothing but kind words to say about Broadcom in November. CEO Hock Tan jumped on a bandwagon and announced at the White House that his Singapore-based semiconductor company would “redomicile” to the United States, thanks to the GOP’s new tax plan.
Thousands of China’s elites are currently gathered in Beijing for the “two sessions,” the annual meetings for members the National People’s Congress (or NPC, China’s rubber-stamp legislative branch) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (or CPPCC, a non-legislative advisory body).
Thousands of China’s elite are meeting in Beijing as the National People’s Congress (NPC), a rubber-stamp parliament, and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a non-legislative advisory body, convene for annual meetings.
