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Donald Trump had been booted and Joe Biden has been crowned. The United States has seen a change of its president. Following the footstep of his predecessor, president Biden has continued the tech war against Chinese tech companies. Americans are being banned from investing in Chinese firms, including Huawei, China Mobile and even China General […]
... written on Feb 18 2022Mark Zuckerberg thought a rebranding of Facebook to Meta last year as part of its business strategy to becoming a virtual-reality based company, instead of a company tainted with multiple data privacy scandals, could revitalize the social media company. Instead, the company lost a mind-boggling US$251.3 billion in market value in just one day on […]
... written on Feb 04 2022A Desperate Move To Rebrand Facebook – Here’s The Toxic Reason Zuckerberg Changed Its Name To “Meta”
Facebook is now known as Meta in a rebranding exercise to reflect its expansion into the metaverse, something that exists only in science-fiction books or movies like “The Matrix”. Effectively, Facebook Inc. – the parent company of WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus – is called Meta Platforms Inc. The company is moving towards augmented reality […]
... written on Nov 01 2021In the current digital age, we have smartphones and handheld devices that are loaded with different applications. These apps are designed to make life easy and to automate mainstream processes. For instance, if you want to have something to eat, you can simply log on to your restaurant’s app and order food, or if […]
... written on Jun 28 2021The Group of Seven (G-7), popularly known as the club of rich nations, has reached a landmark deal on Saturday to slap at least 15% corporate tax on MNCs (multinational companies or corporations). The global minimum tax rate on company profits will provide a new way of sharing the revenues from taxing the world’s most […]
... written on Jun 06 2021For months, we’ve been saying that the backdoor government of Muhyiddin is not only illegitimate and fragile, but also clueless and incompetent. The loosely glued Perikatan Nasional coalition, consisting of three biggest “Malay” political parties – PPBM, UMNO and PAS – successfully snatched power through a coup in March 2020 under the pretext of “Malay […]
... written on Feb 01 2021After boasting on January 13 how its active users breached the 500 million milestones, thanks to WhatsApp new privacy policy, Telegram happily blasted another notification to its users on January 29. It claims over 100 million new users joined Telegram in January 2021 alone, seeking more privacy and freedom. But bragging was not the reason […]
... written on Jan 31 2021WhatsApp rival Telegram has breached 500 million active users. In announcing its new milestone, the company also proudly sent a message to its giant pool of users that in the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world (38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America […]
... written on Jan 13 2021For the time being, Donald Trump doesn’t know what to do with TikTok’s counter proposal of making Oracle its “business partner” or “trusted tech partner”. As a trusted tech partner, Oracle will manage TikTok’s U.S. user data. As a business partner, Oracle will own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the […]
... written on Sep 19 2020When the U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei Technologies Co to its “entity list” in May 2019, the Chinese tech giant retaliated about 3 months later by revealing its own operating system, called HarmonyOS. The blacklist has affected Huawei’s overseas revenue, who was then the world’s No. 2 smartphone maker – ahead of Apple – but […]
... written on Sep 12 2020
