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China apps bypass ban; K’taka may draft new gaming lawMany of the 224 China-linked apps that India has banned since June 2020 continue to operate in India, according to industry insiders and pr...
16 Feb, 2022, 08.18 AM IST
At Amazon, some brands get more protection from fakes than othersMost merchants, many of them small businesses, rely on Amazon’s algorithms to ferret out fakes before they appear—an automated process that...
19 Oct, 2021, 09.07 AM IST
With Tata set to take on Ambani, this is how a high-stakes, all-out retail war is about to play outTata Group is talking to Walmart for a $25 billion investment in a “super-app,” a multipurpose platform combining fashion, lifestyle and el...
05 Oct, 2020, 02.16 PM IST
TikTok, WeChat are just the beginning, nations fight over data to leave decades-long impactPresident Donald Trump’s moves to prevent some of China’s biggest companies from accessing the private data of Americans -- restrictions se...
09 Sep, 2020, 10.19 AM IST
TikTok tug-of-war ensnares app’s affable billionaire founderThe reclusive founder has expressed his frustration with U.S. authorities to ByteDance employees. In an all-hands memo recently, Zhang said...
08 Aug, 2020, 09.48 AM IST
Trump ban on top messaging app risks snarling global businessThe White House’s vaguely worded edict left a lot of open questions about how broadly the ban would be applied and the full ramifications f...
07 Aug, 2020, 07.16 PM IST
War over TikTok worsens, China threatens retaliation against US 'smash and grab'An editorial, published late Monday by the China Daily newspaper, represented Beijing’s strongest defence yet of ByteDance Ltd. and its vir...
05 Aug, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
The 20 minutes that broke the US oil marketThe fossil fuel that helped to build the modern world, was now not an asset but a liability.
26 Apr, 2020, 09.32 AM IST
Koos Bekker’s fortune was founded on one investment in China’s TencentIn 2001 Naspers, the media group he chairs, put $32 million into a then-obscure Web company called Tencent. Its stake today is worth $66 bn.
21 May, 2015, 05.39 AM IST