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Facebook’s WhatsApp Delays Update Of Business Features After Privacy Backlash
Following a huge amount of concerns from millions of its users who feared that the messaging platform was loosening its user data privacy policies, the Facebook Inc. owned messaging app WhatsApp has decided to delay its planned and announced update… Read More ›
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Malaysia Files Case Against EU At The WTO Over Restrictions On Palm Oil As Biofuel
The European Union and its member states France and Lithuania had previously imposed restrictions on palm oil based biofuels from Malaysia and the Malaysian government will be initiating legal action against these parties at the global trade watchdog – the… Read More ›
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Efficacy Of Its Covid-19 Vaccine Defended By China’s Sinovac After Poor Brazil Data Emerges
Researchers in Brazil announced results of late-stage clinical trial data of the Covis-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech which showed that the vaccine candidate’s efficacy was much lower than the initial claims by the Chinese firm. However the safety… Read More ›
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WhatsApp’s Separate User Data Privacy Policy For Europe And Other Countries Like India
The Facebook owned messaging app WhatsApp is applying double standards for implementation of its changes in data privacy policy and sharing of user data. The messaging app has confirmed that its policies on data-sharing remain unchanged for users in Europe… Read More ›
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70,000 Accounts That Shared QAnon Conspiracy Theories Suspended By Twitter
More than 70,000 accounts that were dedicated primarily to share QAnon content were suspended by the social media company Twitter, the company has said, which, according to analysts, is a part of the efforts of the platform to be strict… Read More ›
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Latest Funding Round Helps Checkout.Com Raises $450Mn And Achieve $15Bn Valuation
With the help of a $450 million Series C finding round with Tiger Global Management leading the round, the payments company Checkout.com is ready to raise its head once again. Greenoaks Capital and all the existing investors in the company… Read More ›
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With Bitcoin Falling, Almost $170Bn Wiped Off Cryptocurrency Market In A Day
Market value worth more than $170 billion from the entire crypto currency market was wiped off on Monday after a fall in the value of bitcoin and other digital coins. According to Coinmarketcap, at 12:10 p.m. Singapore time, the total… Read More ›
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Investigators Find Evidence Of SolarWinds Hacks Used Known Russian Spying Tools
According to researcher probing the huge cyber espionage campaign on entities in the United States which was discovered last month, claimed that the suspected group that conducted the cyber attack used malicious computer code that had links to spying tools… Read More ›
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‘Unjustified’ Foreign Trade And Business Regulations To Be Countered By China
With the deteriorating relations between the United States and China, a set of new rules for countering “unjustified” laws and restrictions imposed in foreign countries on Chinese companies and citizens has been published by China’s Ministry of Commerce during the… Read More ›
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Reserve Target Raised By IMF Due To Enhanced Risks Of Its Credit Exposure
Due to a sharp increase in financial risks since 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that the medium term target for the fund’s precautionary reserves has been agreed to be raised by its Executive Board. The IMF said in… Read More ›