Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong
Kids have missed almost an entire year of education due to coronavirus so parents have sought help online
16 Apr 2021 | 3
Watchdog thinks Google tricked Australians into giving up data, sues. Judge semi-agrees
Filing reveals: Google staff called meeting over data privacy issues the 'Oh Shit' meeting
16 Apr 2021 | 23
Walmart’s Indian outpost FlipKart picks industrial giant’s India-US joint venture for Chennai data center
E-commerce wing to also get a huge fulfillment center for Q3 2022
16 Apr 2021 |
Infosys says staff are leaving it again – a sign COVID crunch is receding
Full year impact of the compensation hike of Q4 will be felt into FY 22, says Infosys
15 Apr 2021 | 6
A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse
Dictates 3 languages, translates into 6, available only in China
14 Apr 2021 | 30
Grab, the superapp that made Uber quit Southeast Asia, to go public through controversial 'SPAC'
Ride-sharing, food-delivering, payment-processing, home-insuring and money-lending org thanks COVID for pumping up its financials
14 Apr 2021 | 6
COVID-19 kicks mobile giant CK Hutchison's '3' twice: Robs operator of roaming revenue, sends data use soaring
Many European customers flee, Asia signs up in big numbers
14 Apr 2021 |
Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks
Requires Alipay to open to competition but stops short of ordering company break up
13 Apr 2021 | 9
'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'
Big Blue revamps terminology, keeps 'black box' because it's not pejorative
12 Apr 2021 | 106
China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules
Alibaba takes it on the chin, apologises, promises to do better (and maybe feels it got off lightly with fine of 4% of revenue)
12 Apr 2021 | 15
Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on
Mammoth as a mobe, but serious as a game device
09 Apr 2021 | 28
India uses controversial Aadhaar facial biometrics to identify COVID vaccination recipients
Safer than eyeballs or fingerprints, apparently
09 Apr 2021 | 2
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce
09 Apr 2021 | 16
Greenland's elections just bolstered China's tech world domination plan
Wait... what? Strap in for the story of an Australian rare earth miner, partly owned by China, and worries about uranium dust
08 Apr 2021 | 35
Jeff Bezos supports US tax rise after not paying it for two years – and paying tiny amount in 2019
Expresses fondness for Biden administration infrastructure plan that would help parcels be delivered faster and boost broadband speeds
07 Apr 2021 | 50
What chipageddon? Samsung says sales and profits soared in Q1
Looks like the Galaxy S21 did well, and Texas storm shutdown blew over
07 Apr 2021 | 1
Japan tests digital currency, because all the cool kids are doing it already
Starts year-long proof of concept for the basics, meanwhile China is already testing cross-border crypto-payments
06 Apr 2021 | 13
Subaru parks plans to make 58,000 cars due to brakes on silicon supply chain
Workers to get earlier, longer, holiday, probably paid (fingers crossed)
06 Apr 2021 | 21
LG Electronics finally gives up cellphone business
Lack of product enthusiasm in a stale market during a semiconductor drought finally killed it
05 Apr 2021 | 29
Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales
Good times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco
02 Apr 2021 |
Hitachi slurps GlobalLogic for $9.6bn to bolster IoT prospects
Capitalizing on preparing digitally novice businesses for post COVID era
01 Apr 2021 | 1
Printers used to be a pricey luxury in Asian homes, then along came ... you know what
Best not to go long on printer shares, IDC predicts copy shops will rise again
31 Mar 2021 | 4
Pair accused of turning photos into vids to crack tax dept facial recognition system in China
Then issuing tens of millions in fake invoices
31 Mar 2021 | 29
Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work
Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce
30 Mar 2021 | 3
