A large number of people in India have called for a ban on TikTok as they believe it promotes violence, crime and pornography. Between March and May, downloads of the ByteDance-owned app fell from 35.7 million to 17 million. Two of the primary reasons …
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Enterprise barcode scanner company Scandit has closed an $80 million Series C round, led by Silicon Valley VC firm G2VP. Atomico, GV, Kreos, NGP Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Swisscom Ventures also participated in the round — which brings its total …
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For more than a decade, Chinese companies raised billions by listing their shares on American stock exchanges while avoiding the accounting-quality checks that other public firms endure. But economic tension between the two global superpowers, …
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This week marks two years since the General Data Protection Regulation went into effect. In the before times, GDPR was all anybody talked about. It’s a massive set of data-privacy regulations created by the European Union affecting any companies that …
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(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Neil Unmack. LONDON, May 26 (Reuters Breakingviews) – The French drugmaker is selling a $13 bln stake in biotech Regeneron. CEO Paul Hudson, recently …
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