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China’s top three telcos advise of imminent delisting from New York Stock Exchange

Trump-era Executive Order gets China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile kicked off bourse

10 May 02:22 | 4

We were 'blindsided' by Epic's cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling

I thought we were friends

07 May 14:35 | 38

Day 3 of the Apple vs Epic trial: What actually is an iPhone anyway?

Microsoft Xbox exec called up to explain differences with gaming console

06 May 14:30 | 32

Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to ban Trump, asks FB to look at own 'potential contribution' to 'narrative of electoral fraud'

Looks like you can safely ignore that friend request... forever

05 May 14:59 | 32

Apple vs Epic Games trial kicks off featuring the same old arguments, hundreds of angry Zoombombing tweens

'Hello? I would please like Fortnite Mobile back...'

04 May 14:03 | 14

China cracks down on ‘excessive’ user data harvesting, gives 33 apps ten days to clean up their acts

Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu among those in strife

03 May 01:15 | 20

UK watchdog would cease to enforce data protection law if Supreme Court sided with Google, its lawyer tells judges

Plus: Anti-Chocolate Factory campaign says it'll collect all the class-action damages, thank you

30 Apr 15:55 | 32

SAP to pay $8m in non-prosecution agreement with US authorities over Iran sanction violations

'We accept full responsibility for past conduct,' says German software giant

30 Apr 12:05 | 7

Show me the Monet: Late Samsung chairman's family settles inheritance tax bill, massive art donation

Highly anticipated details of stock division still unavailable

28 Apr 13:45 | 1

Apple faces another suit over its allegedly misleading water resistance claims

Filing says most users' devices 'may experience limited water contact'

26 Apr 14:31 | 36

US Supreme Court puts a stop to FTC extracting big bucks from crooks to refund victims

Oops, watchdog doesn't actually have the power to do so, panel unanimously point out

23 Apr 22:52 | 14

iFixit wants you to be legally able to break software locks to repair gizmos. Unsurprisingly, manufacturers are less keen

US Copyright Office asked to add DMCA amendment

23 Apr 16:04 | 26

39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question

Japanese firm has a reckoning to face

23 Apr 14:15 | 169

Huawei wins big intellectual property case in Europe – against fashion house Chanel

Court finds linked 'U' used on Smart Home app can't be confused with linked 'C' used on overpriced tat

22 Apr 02:29 | 40

Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged

Countless people signed away the right to have their trauma acknowledged, and that can’t stand

20 Apr 08:31 | 134

Age discrimination class-action against HP and HPE gets green light to proceed

Old people were let go while the CEO was talking about hiring a bunch of young people, says complaint

16 Apr 18:15 | 26

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 12:15 | 6

Best of FRANDs: Judge allows Apple retrial following $506m patent infringement ruling

PanOptis was obliged to provide 4G LTE licences – but no one mentioned it

16 Apr 10:00 | 22

Patent battle over Facebook Live and 'walkie talkie' tech rattles through High Court in London

Sueball sees social network squaring off against app upstart in UK branch of worldwide fight

16 Apr 08:30 | 14

Docking £500k commission from top SAS salesman was perfectly legal, rules judge

Chap brought in $27m deal – so bosses withheld two-thirds of his pay

15 Apr 11:14 | 84

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US declares emergency after ransomware shuts oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day

Oil transport by road allowed after Colonial Pipeline goes down, operator says recovery is under way but offers no recovery date

‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty

When software depends on a project thanklessly maintained by a random guy in Nebraska, is open source sustainable?

Much of the OSS world is critically underfunded yet critically important

Accidentally wiped an app's directory? Hey, just play the 'unscheduled maintenance' card. Now you're a hero

It soothed this raging roomful of wannabe lawyers anyway

Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA

Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives

Namecheap hosted 25%+ of fake UK govt phishing sites last year – NCSC report

Also we fixed SS7 use by British telcos. How? Why? Not saying

Jaguar Land Rover reaches for graph database in search of supply chain knowledge during chip shortage

Top dog Neo4j just wouldn't scale, says car giant's data boss

China’s top three telcos advise of imminent delisting from New York Stock Exchange

Trump-era Executive Order gets China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile kicked off bourse

UK's competition watchdog sniffs around AMD's proposed $35bn all-stock buy of Xilinx

Will deal make goods, services less competitive? Regulator wants to hear from interested parties

Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’

Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment

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Jackie 'You have no authority here' Weaver calls on the UK to extend Coronavirus Act provisions for online meetings

Because local democracy is hilarious – oh, and transparency's good too

15 Apr 08:11 | 39

China requires 'self-correction' of monopolistic behaviour by 34 local web giants

Alibaba was just the beginning, says regulator, as it forbids western web titans' favourite bullying behaviours

14 Apr 06:02 | 20

Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?

This one seems as well thought-out as his Capitol rally salute

13 Apr 21:44 | 99

We have never given census data to anyone – not even the spy agencies, says the UK's Office for National Statistics

Privacy and security fears bubble up again in wake of national headcount

12 Apr 08:36 | 49

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 05:11 | 16

India's open-source community challenges crypto-busting content-removal and ID-recording Code

Object to ‘undue burden of compliance on volunteer communities’

12 Apr 03:48 | 4

Amazon claims victory after warehouse workers in Alabama vote to reject union

Retail union accuses the tech giant of illegally swaying votes, files complaint

09 Apr 20:19 | 31

UK reseller sues Microsoft for £270m in damages claiming prohibitive contracts choke off surplus Office licence supplies

ValueLicensing also calls for action to 'restore and maintain competition and choice in the market'

08 Apr 11:24 | 35

Ex-Geeks staff lose legal bid to claw back withheld training costs from final paycheques

Company acted fairly and reasonably, rules judge

08 Apr 09:26 | 39

Privacy activist Max Schrems claims Google Advertising ID on Android is unlawful, files complaint in France

Tracking ID placed on mobile device without informed consent, says campaign group

07 Apr 11:13 | 100

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 08:12 | 51

Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors

Yes, this could mean Zuck gets your passport and credit card. We’re sure he’ll take care of them properly …

06 Apr 05:55 | 100

Long-running age discrimination case against IBM enters discovery, as judge trims off some claims

No new plaintiffs allowed to join

31 Mar 10:03 | 11

South Korean regulator recommends Apple be prosecuted for hampering fair trade probe

Alleges staff took down the internet when investigators visited, even got a little physical

31 Mar 05:58 | 10

Amazon’s critical Alabama warehouse workers union vote has started … and may be some time

High stakes battle could go on for days

30 Mar 21:55 | 11

Big tech suggests Vietnam rewrite its digital tax plans

Nice economy you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if growth slowed

30 Mar 03:36 | 8

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