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India in Talks With All 'Big Players' About Chip Plants: Minister
Ashwini Vaishnaw, India's minister of railways, communications, electronics and information technology, discusses the cabinet's decision to approve incentives worth 760 billion rupees ($10 billion) over six years for development of...
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An Inside Look at Workplace by Facebook
Aug.07 -- Back in 2016, Facebook Inc. created a collaborative platform run called Workplace to be used to communicate via groups, to chat with colleagues and offer the social networks features in a corporate environment. Since, Workplace...
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China's Tencent Sells Stake in Singapore's E-Commerce Firm Sea
Tencent Holdings Ltd. is selling a stake in Singaporean online gaming and e-commerce company Sea Ltd. Bloomberg Intelligence's Nathan Naidu discusses what the move means for the Chinese tech giant on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia."
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World Wide Web Founder Calls Privacy Rollback Disgusting
Apr.05 -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the world wide web, discusses President Trump’s internet privacy rollback, net neutrality and the future of artificial intelligence. He speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology.â€
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Snap Cuts Revenue Forecast, to Slow Hiring
Snap Inc. said it will report revenue below the low end of its guidance. And Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel sent staff an internal memo warning of a hiring slowdown in response to a "challenging macroeconomic environment." Juliette...
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LinkedIn: More Applicants Seeking Jobs Outside Their Industries
Dec.13 -- Olivier Legrand, managing director and vice president for Asia-Pacific and China at Microsoft's Corp.'s LinkedIn unit, a global social network for professional users, shares the trends he sees in the job market, and discusses...
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How Would Big Tech Firms Deal With H.K. Security Law?
Jul.10 -- Christopher Martin, head of region for Asia and the U.S. at Access Partnership, a technology policy consulting firm, discusses how the new security law China imposed on Hong Kong affects technology giants. Companies including...
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Social media looks to mobile devices
In the near future we will only connect to social media on our smartphones, we will start targeting our social media consumption at what we actually care about, and there will be a whole crop of new companies targeting our specific...
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China Presses Alibaba to Sell Media Assets Including SCMP
Mar.15 -- China's crackdown on the e-commerce giant founded by Jack Ma continues. The government wants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to sell some of its media assets including the South China Morning Post, according to a person familiar...
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What's 'Social Commerce'? What Does China's Pinduodo Do?
Jan.14 -- Jason Davis, associate professor of entrepreneurship and family enterprise at INSEAD, explains what "social commerce" is, and why he sees it as a next frontier. He speaks with Rishaad Salamat and Haslinda Amin on "Bloomberg...
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Apollo Global Interested in Helping Finance Bid for Twitter
Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, discusses Elon Musk's hostile takeover offer for Twitter Inc. Apollo Global Management Inc. is interested in helping finance a bid for the social media company following the...
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Bill Gates on Misinformation, Bitcoin, Pandemic
Feb.22 -- Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-founder and Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about misinformation on social media, Bitcoin "mania" and latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. He speaks with Emily Chang on...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg: Fake News Didn't Drive Election
Nov. 11 -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea that fake news on the social network influenced the U.S. presidential election and said echo-chambers aren't really a problem on the site. Bloomberg's Sarah Frier has more on...
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Tencent Sales Fall for First Time as China's Economy Sinks
China's slowing economy and the ongoing regulatory crackdown are taking a toll on the nation's most valuable company. Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported its first-ever revenue decline after online advertising sales fell by a record. Stephen...
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Hootsuite Raises $60M in New Financing to Help Fund M&A
Sept. 25 -- Hootsuite Media has secured $60 million in new funding as the social-marketing platform inches closer to a possible initial public offering. Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes speaks on Bloomberg West. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Citigroup Maintains 'Buy' Rating for Tencent Despite First Sales Drop
Alicia Yap, head of pan-Asia internet research at Citigroup, discusses Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s financial results and outlook. China's most valuable company its first-ever revenue decline after online advertising sales fell by a record,...
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Alternative Lending Is Techs Next Big Thing: Heitzmann
Oct. 21 -- Rick Heitzmann, managing director and co-founder at FirstMark Capital, discusses what goes into the decision to break up a company or merge with another entity and explains why alternative payments will be the next big thing...
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Chinese Tech Stocks Extend Fall in U.S. on Tencent Sale Concerns
Chinese technology companies listed in the U.S. extended their decline. Tencent Holdings Ltd. cut its stake in Singapore-based online gaming company Sea Ltd. less than a month after saying it would hand out more than $16 billion of...
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How Does H.K. Security Law Affect Citizens' Privacy?
Jul.08 -- Ray Walsh, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy, looks at how the new security law China imposed on Hong Kong would affect privacy of the citizens and the implications for U.S. technology companies. Google, Facebook...
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Nobel-Winning Journalist Ressa Says Facebook Is 'Biased Against Facts'
Maria Ressa, a journalist of the Philippines and a Nobel Prize laureate, discusses the state of press freedom, and explains why she thinks technology companies should face greater regulation globally. Ressa and Russian editor Dmitry...
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TikTok Owner ByteDance's Valuation Drops Below $300 Billion in Private Deals
Video app TikTok's owner ByteDance Ltd. has traded in recent weeks at valuations well below $300 billion. That is down at least 25% from last year after investors cashed out of the social media giant with its IPO now on ice. Lulu Chen...
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Tencent Denies Report It Will Sell Stakes in Didi, Meituan
Tencent Holdings Ltd. denied a report by Dow Jones that the Chinese technology giant was considering selling down investments in companies from Meituan to KE Holdings Inc. Stephen Engle reports on Bloomberg Television.
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Tencent Revenue Growth Slows Amid China Crackdown
China's year-long crackdown on its technology industry is taking a heavy toll on Tencent Holdings Ltd., the country's most valuable company. The gaming, social media and fintech giant posted its slowest pace of revenue growth since it...
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Facebook to No Longer Use Facial Recognition Technology
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. will no longer use facial recognition for photos and videos shared to the company’s flagship social network amid growing privacy concerns. This means the company will delete more than 1 billion “facial...