France and US face off in 'digital tax' dispute
US president Donald Trump's administration issued a warning to the French government regarding its plan to implement a new tax regime for large US tech firms, making them liable to pay taxes in the countries they operate in rather than the country they were incorporated. French economic minister Bruno Le Maire has warned that any retaliatory sanctions from the US will be repaid in kind.
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After TikTok, Trump indicates banning Alibaba, other Chinese firms in US
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has indicated that he was looking to ban other Chinese-owned companies, including e-commerce giant Alibaba in the United States, days after signing an executive order targetting TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, an American TV channel reported. These banned clones include Tiktok Lite, Helo Lite, SHAREit Lite, BIGO LIVE Lite and VFY Lite.
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Garmin is slowly coming back online after a massive ransomware hack
Five days after a massive ransomware attack, some of Garmin's services are beginning to come back online. Sam Curry, chief security officer of cybersecurity company Cybereason, said the ransomware attack on Garmin was "crippling," and called it "the corporate equivalent of a heart attack." "The longer Garmin is offline, the cost of recovery increases and could cost tens of millions of dollars more," he said.
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Zuckerberg, Pichai, Cook and Bezos' antitrust hearing officially postponed
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai -- the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google-owned Alphabet -- were scheduled to sit before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. Late on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter said the hearing was very likely to be delayed.
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Amazon VP Tim Bray quits
Amazon VP Tim Bray quits
A top engineer at Amazon has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of warehouse workers. He said that listening to worker accounts of what life is like in Amazon’s warehouses during the coronavirus pandemic was difficult to stomach, and that he “snapped” when they fired the activists.
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