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Japan foreign minister puzzles followers with bizarre 'bacon' tweet
Bemused followers of Foreign Minister Taro Kono were left scratching their heads Tuesday after a bizarre tweet about bacon, sparking tongue-in-cheek speculation he could be tweeting classified information in code. "Ah, bacon is in fact ^%£$+*.!%...." Kono tweeted in Japanese from his verified account to ...
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Daiwa targets younger investors with new online brokerage unit
Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Japan's second-biggest brokerage, unveiled plans to start a unit focused on mobile services as early as next year to win younger clients. Daiwa and larger rival Nomura Holdings Inc. face pressure to appeal to new investors as older clients pull money ...
WhatsApp discovers spyware that infects with missed call alone
Spyware crafted by an "advanced cyber actor" has infected multiple targeted mobile phones through the popular WhatsApp communications program without any user intervention, via in-app voice calls even if they are not answered, the company that operates the service has said. The Financial Times identified ...
Uniqlo, GU brand's Fast Retailing says 460,000 online accounts were accessed in Japan hack
Users’ personal information, purchase history and parts of credit card numbers may have been accessed, the Tokyo-based retailer said.
Trump losing his fight to ban Huawei equipment from global mobile networks
U.S. President Donald Trump's worldwide campaign to blackball Huawei Technologies Co. is looking like a failure. Attempts to persuade other governments to exclude Huawei equipment from the next generation of superfast mobile networks have hit a wall — even among close allies. So far, only ...
YouTube pranksters made their bed, now they have to lie in it after prosecutors' referral
Police referred a group of pranksters to prosecutors on Monday over a stunt in which they placed a bed with a YouTuber on top in the middle of Tokyo's famed Shibuya scramble crossing as pedestrians used it to cross the intersection. The six men and ...
METI and JETRO to boost e-commerce support for Japanese firms via Japan Mall websites
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will increase support for companies trying to sell products abroad by opening more Japan Mall sites on major foreign e-commerce sites, officials said. The support program was launched in Singapore and other nations on a trial basis in ...
SoftBank to make Yahoo Japan a subsidiary, lifting expected sales and profits
Telecommunications carrier SoftBank Corp. said Wednesday it will make Yahoo Japan Corp. a consolidated subsidiary. The share acquisition will help SoftBank log record consolidated sales and operating profit in the year ending in March 2020. At present, Yahoo Japan is under the wing of SoftBank ...
Google debuts privacy controls and principles at its I/O developers event
Alphabet Inc.'s Google business announced new privacy controls Tuesday for its services, including "incognito mode" for Google Maps, and published new privacy commitments for its hardware, showing how increased public scrutiny is forcing greater transparency in Silicon Valley. The announcements were dotted throughout nearly two ...
Despite data scandals, Australian parties get free rein to gather personal info on voters
Australian political parties are using voter email addresses to find matching social media profiles and combining them with the country's compulsory electoral roll data, illustrating how privacy scandals have done little to slow the march of data-driven campaigning. While the use of data and public ...
In alleged plot to attack U.S. Muslim enclave, online hate forges a dark path for suspect
A few months after he turned 17 — and more than two years before he was arrested — Vincent Vetromile recast himself as an online revolutionary. Offline, in this suburb of Rochester, New York, Vetromile was finishing requirements for promotion to Eagle Scout in a ...
