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Alibaba shares jump 8% as Jack Ma surfaces after 3 months
yJack Ma is back. Well, not in an Arnie-in-terminator way, but the Alibaba co-founder, who was believed to have gone missing ...
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Google blames faulty algorithm for blurring Hong Kong protest graffiti on Street View
Google blamed its automated systems for obfuscating a banned political slogan and a call for Xi Jinping's death on the Street ...
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Beijing arrested a pro-democracy media tycoon in Hong Kong — then his stock quadrupled
Hong Kong activists became stock traders on Monday in support of local media tycoon Jimmy Lai, whom authorities arrested ...
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TikTok pulls its app from Hong Kong's Play Store and App Store
TikTok is perhaps the most troubled app in the world right now. A week after the app was banned in India, Bytedance-owned ...
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Coronavirus proves great for Boku's bottom line, as payments jump 30%
The threat of coronavirus might have investors and consumers rattled, but something tells me mobile payments service Boku ...
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Volvo Cars is reportedly being merged with China's Geely
Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars and Chinese brand Geely Automobile are reportedly planning a merger that would have a knock on ...
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Twitter scumbags scam 64-year-old lady out of $158K Bitcoin fortune
Two men have pleaded guilty to defrauding a 64-year-old woman out of more than $158,000 worth of Bitcoin.
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Twitter in 2019: Chaos, K-Pop, and the egg that captured our hearts and minds
Twitter today released its data what's proved the most popular on the site in 2019. If you've been on Twitter regularly for ...
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Apple bans app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity, again (Updated)
Apple removes HKmap.live, a crowdsourced live maps app that protestors in Hong Kong used to track police movements, days ...
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Blizzard banned a Hong Kong protest supporter and all hell broke loose
Blizzard, perhaps ironically, has ignited a firestorm over the banning of an esports pro for his support of Hong Kong. While ...
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Riot's message to esports pros: We want no part of Hong Kong controversy
Earlier this week the bottom fell out at Blizzard when it banned an esports pro from competing after he spoke out in support ...
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China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters
Twitter has found itself in a tight spot after it was caught running ads from China's state-backed media outlet Xinhua attacking ...
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How Hong Kong protesters are embracing 'offline' messaging apps to avoid being snooped on
As pro-democracy rallies rage in Hong Kong, protestors are increasingly switching to peer-to-peer mesh networking apps like ...
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Blizzard bans esports player from Hearthstone tourney over Hong Kong support
Blizzard is in the hot seat after penalizing a Hearthstone esports player for voicing an opinion about the protests in ...
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NBA stands to lose billions as China lashes out over tweet supporting Hong Kong
The NBA boasts some 600 million fans in China and rakes in billions of dollars from lucrative TV and merchandising contracts ...
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Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)
Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...
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LocalBitcoins sees huge spikes in usage during Hong Kong’s political unrest
Bitcoin volumes have seen an increase in Hong Kong on peer-to-peer trading site LocalBitcoins. The platform has seen its ...
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Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts
Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...
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‘Bitcoin playboy’ given suspended jail sentence for cryptocurrency publicity stunt
The "Bitcoin playboy" that made it rain money over one of Hong-Kong's poorest neighborhoods has been handed a suspended prison ...
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Telegram founder claims China disrupted the app to sabotage Hong Kong protesters
After Telegram was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack yesterday, CEO Pavel Durov said the 'state-actor sized' attack was ...
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Liquidators put the final nail in Gatecoin's coffin
One of the first regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, Gatecoin, has officially been taken over by liquidators following a ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bithumb hacked for $19M, SEC delays Bitcoin ETF decision again, and more
It's another week which means it's time for another wrap up of the weekend's blockchain and cryptocurrency news, here's Moonday ...
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Huawei is putting blockchain into the stratosphere
At its 2019 "Cloud Summit" industry conference in Hong Kong, Huawei unveiled a new blockchain-based cloud service for Hong ...
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Years after brutal $2M hack, Gatecoin cryptocurrency exchange is dead
Seminal cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin is dead, years after it lost $2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum belonging to its ...
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'Blockchain' won't save your bad business from going bust
Blockchain name-dropping seems to be dying as one Hong Kong tea maker tried and failed to perk up its stock price just by ...
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Bitcoin playboy who 'made it rain' accused of HK$3M fraud
Angry blockchain speculators have accused Wong of cheating them out of HK$3M, after purchasing ultimately worthless cryptocurrency ...