Google suffered a worldwide outcry on Monday that took over several services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive offline. According to Google, the service has been restored. The company’s workspace status dashboard shows that all its services are now backed up and running as usual. Some people on social media …
Read More »Alibaba and two other companies fined for failing to report deals to Chinese regulators
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. to enter the front of the New York Stock Exchange on November 11, 2015. Brendan McDermide | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China – China’s market regulator has fined Alibaba and Tencent-backed companies for failing to properly declare past acquisitions to officials, in another sign Beijing is taking a …
Read More »Uber sells its ‘flying taxi’ business to startup Joby
A day after unloading its self-driving vehicle unit, Uber Technologies Inc. Silicon Valley startup Joby Aviation said it would acquire Uber Elevate, and that Uber has agreed to invest 75 75 million as part of the deal. Joby told Uber UBR, -1.47% It had previously invested an undisclosed $ 50 …
Read More »SpaceX’s satellite internet project, Starlink, seen in the eastern Iowa sky on Friday night
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (KCRG) – KCRG-TV9 received several phone calls and messages from viewers on Friday evening saying they were seeing a long line of lights in the sky west of our viewing area. The good news: they are not UFOs! After a brief investigation, we decided that the lights …
Read More »U.S. In talks with Huawei CFO on deal to resolve criminal charges: WSJ
Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhu left his home on November 16, 2020, to attend a court hearing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Jennifer Goulthier | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China – The U.S. government is negotiating a deal with Meng Wenzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, who will be deported from …
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