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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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis

• 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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• ‘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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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 ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis

• '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 ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis