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The important Chinese market, which is very restrictive for foreign firms, represents a drop in the ocean of Microsofts business, accounting for barely 1.8 percent of its turnover, president Brad Smith said at the beginning of the year.

Here's how Microsoft entered and managed to stay in China

The software giant has kept its business alive in the country by complying with the strict local laws on censorship.

8 Aug 2020 5:04 PM IST

Facebook has removed 35 Facebook accounts, three pages, and 88 Instagram accounts, security policy head Nathaniel Gleicher said. The people behind this network used fake accounts to pose as Americans, amplify and comment on their own content, and manage pages including some posing as President Trump fan pages. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook, Twitter crack down on Russia, China agents trying to sway US...

State-led influence campaigns were prominent on social media during the 2016 US elections and have been seen around the...

7 Aug 2020 7:11 PM IST

People take part in a protest against a judicial reform bill announced by the government, in front of the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, on August 1, 2020, during the COVID-9 pademic. - Argentinas government opposition fierly criticised the reform bill on grounds that it would grant impunity to former government officials facing corruption allegations, including now vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. (Photo | AFP)

Google search result calls Argentine vice-president called 'thief',...

Facing charges in nine cases, Cristina Kirchner was twice ordered into pre-trial detention, but parliamentary immunity...

7 Aug 2020 4:57 PM IST

Its unclear whether the Presidents executive order bars Americans from using TikTok, and even if it does its not enforceable as users will continue using the app over a VPN. (Photo | AP)

Explainer: What does Trump's order mean for TikTok, WeChat in US?

Trump's order appears to formalise his threat to shut down TikTok unless Microsoft or some other American company buys...

7 Aug 2020 1:57 PM IST

Nintendo Switch sales, both of the handheld machines and software games, were zooming amid the pandemic. The various online games in its lineup, including those for mobile devices, were also drawing more people. (Photo of Nintendo Switch Lite | Nintendo.com)

Nintendo achieves profit target as more people take to gaming during...

Sony Corp., which too has a game unit with its PlayStation series, also reported positive results earlier this week.

6 Aug 2020 8:50 PM IST

TikToks forced sale of its US business to an American company could fuel calls in many nations for local control over internet platforms and data storage within their own national borders.

Forcing TikTok to sell its US business could end up killing the open...

Analysts say the deal could result in data nationalism and have far-reaching effects.

6 Aug 2020 8:19 PM IST

Zhang Yiming finds himself under enormous pressure as he tries to assure the world that TikTok is safe and secure, while also protecting his image at home by not appearing to give in to demands from the West. (Photo | bytedance.com)

ByteDance boss in a predicament over Trump's ultimatum on TikTok

Zhang Yiming has been given just six weeks to find a buyer for the app in the United States or have it banned in its...

6 Aug 2020 7:05 PM IST

A group of children and parents protested the hybrid reopening of schools because they would prefer children to attend school five days a week, as before the pandemic. How likely children are to contract or spread the coronavirus has become a deeply contentious issue in the US, with reopening schools essential to enabling many parents to go back to work. Children are known to be far less likely to fall seriously ill or die from the virus: less than one percent of children who test positive for COVID-19 end up dying, according to a Europe-wide study released in June. (Photo | AP)

Trump's Facebook, Twitter post removed for saying children 'almost...

Action taken over 'misinformation', but the American Academy of Pediatrics says children appear to transmit COVID-19...

6 Aug 2020 5:25 PM IST

Prosecutors allege that Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was the mastermind of the scheme that hacked Twitter accounts of celebrities and politicians, and sent tweets from their accounts seeking payments of Bitcoin, the Tampa Bay Times reported. After multiple halts, the judge ultimately declined to lower Clarks bail, which was set at $725,000 when he was arrested on Friday.

Twitter hacking suspect's Zoom hearing interrupted by porn and rap

The Zoom users who disrupted the hearing had of course disguised their names.

6 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST

Trump said Monday to reporters that the US should get a very large percentage of that price because were making it possible, adding that we want and we think we deserve to have a big percentage of that price coming to America, coming to the Treasury. Theres no legal precedent in antitrust law for such a payment, said Gene Kimmelman, a senior adviser at the advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former antitrust official at the Department of Justice. (Photo | AP)

Trump's talk of government getting a cut of TikTok deal not legally...

The President sometimes floats ideas or actions that get set aside without follow-through.

5 Aug 2020 11:31 PM IST

SpaceX plans to launch reusable Starships atop still-in-the-works rockets, carrying cargo or crew not only to low-Earth orbit but also the Moon and Elon Musks most desirable destination, Mars. The latest test model of the rocket is relatively plain: It stands a full-scale 100 feet (30 meters) tall and resembles a steel siloor stretched-out canwith a cap on top. (Photo | AP)

SpaceX's Mars rocket prototype has successful brief flight and landing

Mars is looking real, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted after the short hop. Progress is...

5 Aug 2020 10:08 PM IST

Evidence produced in court showed how unsuspecting officers had been giving out information on their postings and the whereabouts of other colleagues on social media, putting national security at risk, despite earlier advisories on conduct of military personnel on social media. (Photo | Pixabay - PixelKult)

Ban on social media use by defence personnel remains, Delhi High Court...

The court said that if the government had assessed that social media enables espionage by enemy countries, it would not...

5 Aug 2020 7:42 PM IST