Chinese authorities said on Monday that they have handed down maximum fines to the operators of three major social-media platforms in the country for failing to deal with pornography, violence and other banned content on their sites. The affected platforms are Baidu’s online forum Tieba, microblogging site Weibo and Tencent’s massively popular social app WeChat. […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump appears to have violated Twitter’s user guidelines with a recent tweet about North Korea. The company doesn’t plan to punish him for it, and now it’s trying to explain why. Over the weekend, Trump tweeted a message about North Korea and dictator Kim Jong-un that included a thinly veiled threat. Threats are […]
Read moreSome big names are participating in Unikrn’s unique initial coin offering. The Seattle startup launched an initial coin offering, or ICO, this past Friday and has already raised $25 million, Unikrn CEO Rahul Sood told GeekWire. Unikrn is selling virtual tokens called UnikoinGold that can be used on its platform to bet on esports matches. […]
Read moreWhite House aides regularly used personal devices for official business, while at least six close advisers to President Donald Trump occasionally used private email addresses, both Politico and the New York Times reported on Monday, citing sources. Former chief of staff Reince Priebus tried to stop the “rampant” use of personal devices for official business, […]
Read moreBank of Japan policymakers said they should stick with their current policy framework and had reason to be optimistic about consumer prices because measures of inflation expectations have stopped falling, minutes of the central bank’s July 19-20 meeting showed on Tuesday. The BOJ kept monetary policy on hold at the meeting in July but pushed […]
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