Alibaba's valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO China's crackdown on web giants Alibaba and Tencent appears to be over, with the two to pay a combined $1.4 billion in fines to atone for past sins as…
Lees meerALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more Asia In Brief Microsoft last week announced its consistent global pricing policy means Australian and New Zealand customers will soon p…
Lees meerRulings on affirmative action and free speech may not play nicely with diversity initiatives Analysis The US Supreme Court has issued two decisions that threaten to upend efforts by tech companies to become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.…
Lees meerWho is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources? Special report Two of the world's five regional internet registries – which among other things manage the allocation of IP addresses – are in the sights of a secretive …
Lees meerWho is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources? Special report Two of the world's five regional internet registries – which among other things manage the allocation of IP addresses – are in the sights of a secretive …
Lees meerWho is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources? Special report Two of the world's five regional internet registries – which among other things manage the allocation of IP addresses – are in the sights of a secretive …
Lees meerRegulators concerned iRobot could receive preferential treatment on the company's ecommerce platform The European Commission (EC) has announced an in-depth investigation into Amazon's proposed acquisition of iRobot over concerns it may restrict comp…
Lees meerPlus: Facebook corp loses appeal on crossing data streams in Germany Elon Musk's Twitter can breathe easy when it comes to the European Union – Meta's "Threads" will be steering clear.…
Lees meerWhen our reader found this out, he learned even heavenly bolts can't defeat lawyers On Call Lightning may never strike twice, but each and every Friday The Register runs another edition of On Call, our reader-contributed tales of tech support gigs …
Lees meerIt looks like memory glut and consumer indifference to smartmobes are persisting Samsung Electronics issued a warning Friday that its Q2 profit would likely drop 96 percent, year over year – probably due to a lingering oversupply of memory plus over…
Lees meerOur vultures ponder decentralization over convenience Register Kettle It feels like for years we've been moaning about the disastrous effect of social media on society.…
Lees meerWho is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources? Special report Two of the world's five regional internet registries – which among other things manage the allocation of IP addresses – are in the sights of a secretive …
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom suddenly a less appealing destination for manufacturing HPE is planning to start manufacturing some of its high-volume servers in India, with the aim of turning out $1 billion worth of kit in the next five years.…
Lees meerMeta rolls eyes at claim it used former Twits to create rival Twitter, via attorney Alex Spiro, has accused Meta of stealing trade secrets following the launch of Meta's Threads app, a would-be rival text-focused social media network.…
Lees meerAppeal rejected: iPhone and iPad have infringing components inside A UK court has rejected Apple's appeal against a ruling which found it infringed two patents on technology it uses in its world-dominating iPhones and iPads.…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom suddenly a less appealing destination for manufacturing HPE is planning to start manufacturing some of its high-volume servers in India, with the aim of turning out $1 billion worth of kit in the next five years.…
Lees meerAppeal rejected: iPhone and iPad have infringing components inside A UK court has rejected Apple's appeal against a ruling which found it infringed two patents on technology it uses in its world-dominating iPhones and iPads.…
Lees meerBeijing likes Zuck's old stuff better than his new stuff Chinese state media has published a sternly worded opinion piece that makes it plain Meta's ambition to sell its VR hardware in the Middle Kingdom is unlikely to succeed – because, unlike his …
Lees meerAppeal rejected: iPhone and iPad have infringing components inside A UK court has rejected Apple's appeal against a ruling which found it infringed two patents on technology it uses in its world-dominating iPhones and iPads.…
Lees meerBecause Ferraris are meant to fly, not amble along at 2mph The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has started a project to develop software capable of fully utilizing the capabilities of exascale and post-exascale sys…
Lees meerEU citizens' info could be at risk over new rules The UK is expected to adopt a new data protection bill this Autumn. If that happens, more than two dozen civil society groups and privacy experts want the European Commission to cancel its 2021 data …
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