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Chinese police detain man for asking why can't Taiwan be called a country
Police in China have detained a man who asked on social media what law prevented anyone calling self-ruled Taiwan a country, questioning a fundamental principle of China's sovereignty. Taiwan is China's most sensitive diplomatic and political issue. Beijing views the democratic island as merely a wayward ...
Facebook to broadcast all La Liga games for free on Indian subcontinent
Lionel Messi, Gareth Bale and other La Liga stars will soon be beamed for free to viewers on the Indian subcontinent as part of a landmark deal with Facebook to broadcast matches, the Spanish top-flight division said Tuesday. All 380 matches of the 2018-19 La ...
Mark Zuckerberg is totally out of his depth
Tesla's slow disclosure after Musk's tweet of going private raises governance concerns
Tesla Inc.'s handling of Chief Executive Elon Musk's proposal to take the carmaker private and its failure to promptly file a formal disclosure has raised governance concerns and sparked questions about how companies use social media. Musk stunned investors Aug. 7 by announcing on Twitter ...
The incoherent, divisive dogma of cultural appropriation outrage
Clueless online crusaders risk doing real harm to the very cultures they claim to represent
Facebook has asked major U.S. banks to share customer data to allow it to develop new services on the social network's Messenger texting platform, a banking source said Monday. Facebook had discussions with Chase, JPMorgan, Citibank and Wells Fargo several months ago, said the source, ...
How a powerful app helped Imran Khan win Pakistan's general election
A phone app and a database of more than 50 million voters were key weapons in the successful campaign of cricket legend Imran Khan in last month's general election — though rivals allege that Khan also received clandestine aid from Pakistan's powerful military. How Khan's ...
Bangladesh shuts down mobile internet to tackle teen protests
Bangladesh has shut down mobile internet across swaths of the country, officials and local media said Sunday, as the authorities try to quell massive student protests that have spiraled into violence. For the past week, students have brought parts of the capital, Dhaka, to a ...
Ding! Alibaba office app fuels backlash among some Chinese workers
In the cramped former home of Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, about 30 young engineers sit elbow to elbow, working to attract the next million users for DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace communication software. Their installation in the hallowed flat where Ma got ...
Tourists trading in their Japan guidebooks for Instagram
Tourism is booming in Japan, but a growing number of visitors are ditching their guidebooks for an app best known for celebrity snapshots and images of food: Instagram. The social photo-sharing service is proving to be especially popular among those seeking destinations off the beaten ...
French skier lost in 1954 in Italy finally identified with help from social media
A French skier who went missing more than 60 years ago has finally been identified after details of a probe into his disappearance were posted on social media, Italian police said Sunday. Human remains and ski equipment were found in 2005 more than 3,000 meters ...
For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. Now his baroque paintings are jolting the internet. Belgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook because they cannot promote Flemish masters, including ...
