Didi Chuxing's daily active users dropped over 50% after China acknowledged coronavirus outbreak; Beijing drivers waiting up to two hours for a passenger
Financial Times : Tweets: @jonrussell and @modestproposal1 Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Not a good time to be a ride-hailing company in China https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Mod...
Source: Google will stop collaborating and providing Huawei with technical support for Android and Google services, including Google Play
And Saves Itself Some Trouble Wall Street Journal : Google Cuts Off Huawei Smartphones From Some Android Services Stephanie Condon / ZDNet : US grants temporary license for Huawei to support products ...
Thailand's government passes cybersecurity bill that has been criticized for vagueness and the potential to give the government sweeping access to user data
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400K+ items, making up about a third of Amazon's ~$6B in annual sales in India, may disappear from Amazon India, while it works to meet new compliance rules
and a big one is in India Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Amazon and Flipkart pull 100,000s of products to comply with new Indian law John Adams / PaymentsSource : How politics are carving up the global pa...
Internal memo shows that Huawei demoted two employees and cut their monthly pay for using an iPhone to send New Year greetings from its official Twitter account
Not Its Gadgets Overshadow Tech's Big Trade Show Bloomberg : Huawei Demotes Workers for Tweeting From An iPhone Mark Jansen / Digital Trends : Huawei punishes two employees for an iPhone Twitter mista...
Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies
that just passed in Australia today — is going to wipe out any reason to run a startup in the country. What a train wreck. http://twitter.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : Let's see if Australia can ...
Didi suspends its Hitch carpooling service in China after a driver allegedly raped and killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018
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Singapore says it has reasonable grounds to believe Uber-Grab deal may violate competition laws, tells firms not to integrate businesses in the country for now
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Sources: China is escalating clampdown on cryptocurrency trading, targeting platforms that offer exchange-like services, following last year's ban on exchanges
How to buy and sell Bitcoin Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : China reportedly plans to block access to foreign cryptocurrency exchanges Alayna Treene / Axios : Bitcoin plunges as countries crack dow...
Facebook transparency report for H1 2017: account data requests up 21% globally YoY to ~79K; 57% of US requests included order banning FB from notifying users
US, India, UK, Germany & France made most requests for user data https://twitter.com/... Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Thai government had 5 requests for Facebook data (affecting 15 users) all rejected ...