China orders microblog operators to tighten censorship
Ratcheting up control over Chinese microblogs, regulators ordered operators on Friday to set up a mechanism to remove false information after the most popular service was criticized for allowing...
View ArticleMexico auctions six of nine major deep-water oil blocks
Mexico on Wednesday auctioned off six deep-water oil blocks located in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest such auction since the country's government opened the sector to private industry.
View ArticleMexico to hold major deep-water oil auction
Mexican authorities will hold a deep-water oil auction Wednesday, the largest since the country's government opened the sector to private industry.
View ArticleChina directs users to approved VPNs as firewall tightens
China vowed Tuesday to force both local and foreign companies and individuals to use only government-approved software to access the global internet, as overseas firms fear losing unrestricted online...
View ArticleEasy decryption shows that chat-app designers should improve the ways they...
A*STAR researchers have successfully recovered decryption keys for two popular chat-apps—WeChat and WhatsApp. With these decryption keys, they could potentially collect users' personal data and private...
View ArticleEndangered woodpeckers persist, but still struggle, on private land
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service started the Safe Harbor program in North Carolina in 1995 to reduce conflict between landowners and conservation officials and to encourage private landowners to take...
View ArticleExperiment into how voters think shows that they go with their guts
Experts were famously made unwelcome in the final run up to the Brexit referendum of 2016. Leave campaigner Michael Gove said people had had enough of them.
View ArticleItalian govt mulling three offers for ailing Alitalia
Italy's government said Friday it is considering three bids for troubled airline Alitalia from Lufthansa, EasyJet and a private equity firm, and hopes to have a deal wrapped up by May.
View ArticleChina jails seller of VPN services
A Chinese entrepreneur has been sentenced to 5 ½ years in prison for selling virtual private network service, a government newspaper said, as Beijing tries to stamp out use of technology that evades...
View ArticleSurvey: US firms losing confidence in China business climate
U.S. companies in China are seeing their sales improve but are frustrated by policies and regulatory barriers that block better access to the country's lucrative market, according to a survey released...
View ArticleApple CEO hopeful banned apps will return to China store
Apple's chief executive said Wednesday he's optimistic some apps that fell afoul of China's tight internet laws will eventually be restored after being removed earlier this year.
View ArticleSpanish taxis strike to protest Uber, Cabify services
Spanish taxis refused to pick up passengers in a one-day strike Wednesday against the increase in cars run by private companies offering cheaper, mobile ride-hailing services.
View ArticleThe challenge of authenticating real humans in a digital world
Proving identity is a routine part of modern daily life. Many people must show a driver's license to buy alcohol at a store, flash an ID card to security guards at work, enter passwords and passcodes...
View ArticleBlockchain becoming the rage at US business schools
US business schools are beefing up training in the software that underlies digital currency bitcoin, a technology expected to be a game changer in many industries.
View ArticleSpringer Nature blocks access to articles in China
Academic publisher Springer Nature said Wednesday it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government, amid a push by Beijing to tighten controls on...
View ArticleLaw outlawing use of VPNs comes into effect in Russia
A law banning the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, and other internet proxy services has come into effect in Russia.
View ArticleChina's Xi meets Zuckerberg, Cook in Beijing
Apple's Tim Cook and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, state media said Tuesday, as the Communist Party pushes for a larger role in private firms.
View ArticleCorporate deal-making driven by fast technological change
The appetite for mergers and acquisitions remains near a record high as firms try to adapt to fast technological changes and despite a welter of geopolitical concerns, a survey of executives found Monday.
View ArticleVPN law latest step in Kremlin online crackdown: experts
A law coming into force on Wednesday will give the Kremlin greater control over what Russians can access online ahead of a presidential election next March.
View ArticleRethinking the private sector's role in disaster relief
Natural disasters have filled the news in recent months, occurring so frequently that they seem to intimate apocalypse: wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes. But as national and international media...
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