China's Byte Dance admits to tracking journalists using TikTok data.

Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in an effort to identify the source of media leaks, the company admitted on Friday.

TikTok has gone to great lengths to persuade customers and governments in major m...

Civil Groups Urge That Individual Users Be Given Rights to Sue U.S. Tech Giants That Observe Violation Under EU Rules

On Tuesday, Privacy International, pan-European consumer group BEUC and many academics said on Tuesday that individual users of technology should have a right to sue U.S. tech giants if they breach landmark EU rules for curbing their power.

This move by the party of 31 groups and academ...

Chinese regulators fine tech giants over anti-monopoly violations

Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings were fined as they failed to report corporate acquisitions. The State Administration for Market Regulation said that the companies have failed to report 43 acquisitions, occurred around eight years ago under rules on "operating concentra...

LG ELECTRONICS SAW NET PROFIT OF $1.05 BILLION IN Q1 2021

Highlights –

• LG Electronics saw net profit of $1.05 billion in Q1 2021.
• Its operating profit also rose 39.1 percent to 1.51 trillion won in Q1.
• On Thursday, shares in LG fell 1.22 percent to 162,000 won on the Seoul bourse.

SAMSUNG BEGINS MASS-PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST POWER EFFICIENT SSD

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• Samsung begins mass-production of the first power-efficient SSD.
• The company’s PM9A3E1.S is based on 6th generation V-NAND chips.
• The SSD supports the standards of OCP.
• The latest SSD is also said to...

S. KOREA’S APP MARKET ONE STORE GAINS POPULARITY

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• S. Korea’s app market ONE store gains popularity.
• The app store is said to be an alternative to Google’s Play store.
• The app market is a subsidiary of wireless carrier SK Telecom Co.
• Google’s ...

PREORDERS OF APPLE I PHONE 12 MINI AND 12 PRO MAX BEGIN AMIDST PRECEDING MODELS’ RESOUNDING SALES

• Apple Inc. and three South Korean mobile carriers began enabling preorders Friday for the iPhone 12 mini and the 12 Pro Max.
• The US tech giant said the smallest and the largest models of its latest generation smartphone will commit sales in South Korea starting Nov. 20.
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HUAWEI NIGHTMARE IS ABOUT TO GET WORSE

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• Huawei has spent billions of dollars in the R&D to build a patent ecosystem of innovative technology.
• The US new bill has rendered billions of Huawei’s investments spend worthless.
• Huawei planned to become Chinese Appl...

Huawei chief Liang Hua: ' To ensure sustainability is our top priority '

Chinese tech giant Huawei's campus in Shenzhen's southern Chinese city is lined with trees, tiny ponds, and beautiful houses. The mood is cool, and one wouldn't imagine that Huawei is caught up in a global competition for the future of data networks around the globe.

Huawei ...