India's financial crime agency on Tuesday arrested four industry executives including one Chinese national working for smartphone maker Vivo in India in a case of alleged money laundering, according to legal papers and lawyers working on the case.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a bill that would bar tech giants like Amazon.com from giving preference to their own businesses on their websites, despite hefty lobbying from top executives like Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook.
India said a probe found the smartphone maker made illegal remittances to foreign entities by passing them off as royalty payments.
The annual television license that funds the BBC is not doubling in price for people over the age of 65, according to spokespersons for Britain’s national broadcaster and the government’s media and culture ministry.
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Riot Games Inc, the maker of the popular computer game "League of Legends," sued ByteDance unit Shanghai Moonton Technology Co Ltd in Los Angeles federal court on Monday for what it called "blatant copying" of the game's mobile version.
Adidas and Anheuser-Busch InBev are showing some unexpected resilience in the face of influencer trouble. On Thursday, the $35 billion German sportswear company said it had managed to offload the first sale of potentially toxic Yeezy sneakers for around 400 million euros. That was surprising as the products stemmed from a partnership with designer-rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, before he was dismissed for making anti-Semitic comments. The scarcity value that consumers now attribute to the remaining Yeezy shoes helped Adidas slash its expected 2023 operating loss to 450 million euros from a previous forecast of 700 million euros.
Maturity isn’t such a bad thing for Meta Platforms . Sure, advertising at the $430 billion social media platform is under threat, and user growth is slowing, while the Facebook parent’s new virtual world looks a little like a corporate mid-life crisis. But the business is showing the benefits of age, like decent profitability. Through a new set of bifocals, it might even look undervalued.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to block Shein’s bid to list publicly in New York unless the e-tailer makes additional disclosures about its business operations and "the serious risks of doing business" in China.
The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters. By Tiffany Hsu In the months leading up to ...
Top advertisers on Twitter slashed their spending after Elon Musk's takeover, according to estimates compiled for Reuters by research firm Pathmatics, in the latest shock to the company's dominant revenue source.
Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.
Russian domestic tech companies, led by entities controlled or associated with state-owned gas giant Gazprom, are pouncing on the blockade and exodus of foreign internet firms, sensing opportunities in Russia's growing digital isolation.
Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings expects Beijing to allow 'metaverse' virtual environment services, now the talk of Silicon Valley, to operate in China - provided they fall in line with Chinese rules.
Two images captured during Senegal’s victory tour with the Africa Cup of Nations trophy have been falsely presented online as showing the soccer award being transferred to a military base after the team were stripped of their 2026 title.
A video of people wading through a flooded supermarket was filmed in New Zealand and featured in news reports in January this year. The clip is circulating with the false claim that it shows flooding in New York in September 2023.
Snap Inc shares plunged more than 40% and sparked a sector-wide selloff on Tuesday after a profit warning from the Snapchat parent signaled tough times ahead for the once-booming digital ad industry.
A video of bikers at a Pennsylvania charity event has been shared online with the false description that it shows Hells Angels motorcycle club members riding to Aurora, Colorado, in August amid unverified rumors that a gang took over an apartment in the city.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was not arrested by a U.S. military body for treason, as claimed in a circulating headline from a website that regularly publishes false reports of high-profile political arrests.
The Governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, is not standing trial in a military tribunal, despite an article published in December making the claim. It stems from a website that has previously published false claims of high-profile arrests and convictions.
Revenue growth for Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings was smaller than expected in the second quarter, as a sputtering economy weighed on its recovery from last year's record downturn.