21st Century Business Herald CEO and editor-in-chief Shen Hao and the paper’s deputy general manager Chen Dongyang were detained yesterday as China continues to intensify its regulation of the news industry, South China Morning Post reported, citing a one-sentence Xinhua report. The move follows in the wake of the recent detention of several senior executives […]
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Taiwan’s government is inspecting phones made by the Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi to determine whether they pose a cyber security threat, Reuters reported, citing a statement from a communications official. Gin-Shian Lou, a National Communications Commission director, said the government began performing independent tests on the phones after reports in recent months that some models automatically send user data […]
The US-based search engine DuckDuckGo appears to have been blocked in China, South China Morning Post reported, citing the company’s CEO. The privacy-oriented search engine, recently integrated into iOS with the release of the phone and tablet operating system’s eighth iteration, registered more than one billion searches last year – though only about 5% originated […]
Microsoft (MSFT.NASDAQ) has delayed the Tuesday launch of the Xbox One game console on the mainland, Reuters reported, citing a statement from the company. Microsoft said the console would be released by the end of the year, but did not give a reason for the delay in the statement. The delay is the latest in […]
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