Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue ads, which it introduced in 2024, after phasing them out in late 2025 over fears they would erode user trust
Leading start-ups have recently embraced sponsors as they search for revenue — AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising …
ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia
ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia. X: @charlesmok , @wired , @zeyiyang ...
SEMI: US chip fab investment to outpace China, Taiwan, and South Korea from 2027, driven by AI demand and US policies, rising from $21B in 2025 to $43B in 2028
Nikkei Asia : X: @drikramulhaq and @charlesmok . Threads: @charlespmok X: Dr. Ikramul Haq / @drikramulhaq : U.S. semiconductor investment is set to outpace that of major chip econ...
LinkedIn plans to cut 716 jobs and shutter InCareer, its local jobs app in China, by August 9, citing fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) that focuses on business professionals …
Vietnam says it will bar ads on content that it deems to be anti-government or otherwise “toxic”, which may affect individual YouTube and Facebook user accounts
Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia : Tweets: @charlesmok , @lienh , @nikkeiasia , and @freedomonthenet Tweets: @charlesmok : Censorship anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. Vietnam t...
Cambodia's online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting “cyber slave” workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure
long workdays with punishments like tasings and beatings when they miss goals https://restofworld.org/... @charlesmok : A “best kept secret” — well-known in Asia, very little in th...
An interview with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on competition, RCS, government pressure to break encryption, what it's like to hire a new CEO, and more
Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here's how. — Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal …
WeChat, used by millions of Chinese Americans, is one of the main venues for Chinese-language misinformation in the US and may influence the 2022 US midterms
Ahead of US midterms, activists are fighting falsehoods circulating in Chinese-language communities that they fear will distort the vote or suppress turnout. Tweets: @charlesmok an...
Sources: Apple freezes its plans to use YMTC memory chips in its products, including iPhones, following the latest US export controls on China's tech sector
Company previously planned to put Chinese-made memory in some iPhones
Analysis: why the Biden administration's sweeping export controls on China's chip sector happened now and how they could usher in a new global economic paradigm
In the week+ since the US government issued its sweeping set … John Naughton / Memex 1.1 : Tuesday 18 October, 2022 — In my favourite Provencal village. And I didn't use a drone...
Sources: Apple freezes plans to use memory chips from China's YMTC in its products, including iPhones, following the latest US export restrictions
Company previously planned to put Chinese-made memory in some iPhones
Apple, Meta, AMD, Qualcomm, and other US and EU companies attend the annual World AI Conference in Shanghai, despite the US distancing itself from China
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A researcher says a Chinese database of up to 800M records was exposed for months, storing names, resident ID numbers, images of faces, license plates, and more
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Salesforce says it is closing its office in Hong Kong and “accelerating” its strategic partnership with Alibaba “to better serve the Greater China Region”
Salesforce is repositioning itself in China as it looks to expand the reach of its customer relationship management software in the country.
The US should grant more green cards to retain tech leaders; Turkish MIT and Caltech grad Erdal Arikan, whose work led to Huawei's 5G lead, had to leave the US
What is the single most significant step the United States can take to sustain the technological predominance it has enjoyed since World War II? Tweets: @dkaushik96 , @siddarthpaim...
Hollywood's fight against VPN providers like ExpressVPN now goes beyond piracy, as a recent lawsuit alleges VPNs enable crimes like hacking, murder, and more
Beyond accusations of encouraging copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of illegal activity.
Sources: China plans to end its regulatory crackdown on the country's Big Tech companies and give internet platforms a bigger role to boost its ailing economy
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :
China's lockdown outrage tests state propaganda limits in Shanghai, where internet-savvy residents overwhelmed censors' ability to keep up with critical posts
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Sources: China is preparing to end the regulatory crackdown over big tech and give the sector a bigger role to help boost the ailing economy
A symposium involving Chinese Big Tech has been scheduled after the Labour Day holiday to assure business leaders on the new direction …
Russia's disconnection from Western online services adds to fears of a “splinternet”, or networks with incompatible protocols diverging from the global internet
If Russia disconnects from—or is booted from— the internet's governing bodies, the internet may never be the same again for any of us.