Trump to Block U.S. Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat On Sunday
The U.S. Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting on September 20, three officials told Reuters. The full order was published by the Department of Commerce...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 19, 2020
2 min read
Apple Is Launching First Online Store in India
The tech giant Apple Inc will launch its first online store in India on Sept. 23. The new online store will provide customers with the same premium experience found in Apple store locations around the world, delivered by online team members who are ready to...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 18, 2020
1 min read
The PS5 Will Launch On November 12 For $499.99
Sony has revealed that its long-awaited Playstation 5 will cost $499.99 when it launches alongside the game maker’s $399.99 Digital Edition. The pricing puts Sony squarely up against Microsoft’s next-gen consoles, with the company set to release its entry-level Xbox Series S at $299 and its flagship Xbox...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 17, 2020
1 min read
Bloomberg Donates $100m For Biden In Florida
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has pledged at least $100m (£78m) to help Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in Florida, BBC reported. Of the battleground states Florida offers the biggest share of the electoral college votes needed to win.Mr Bloomberg already spent $1bn this year trying to...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 14, 2020
1 min read
Facebook Staff Who Volunteer at the Polls Get Paid Time Off
The social media giant Facebook will give additional paid time off to employees who volunteer as poll workers during the election, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. The move is part of a wider push by the Menlo Park, Calif., social-media platform to recruit poll...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 12, 2020
1 min read
Apple Designs Special Face Masks For Employees
Apple Inc. has developed masks that the company is beginning to distribute to corporate and retail employees to limit the spread of Covid-19, Bloomberg reports. The Apple Face Mask is the first created in-house by the Cupertino, California-technology giant for its staff. The other, called ClearMask,...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 10, 2020
1 min read
Chinese Embassy Calls For Twitter Inquiry After Ambassador Account Likes Porn Tweet
China’s embassy in the United Kingdom is calling on Twitter to open an investigation after its ambassador’s official account liked a pornographic clip on the platform earlier this week, BBC reported. Liu Xiaoming’s account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 10, 2020
1 min read
Read Cloudflare’s Statement Regarding Sunday Morning’s CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
Cloudflare was suffering an outage Sunday morning that appeared to be affecting multiple websites. CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet....
Bijay Pokharel,
August 31, 2020
1 min read
Cloudflare Is Suffering A Sunday Morning Outage
Cloudflare was suffering an outage Sunday morning that appeared to be affecting multiple websites. The outage began early Sunday, and according to Cloudflare’s status page, it was seeing “an increased level of HTTP 5xx class errors,” such as 522 and 503, which indicates an issue...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 30, 2020
1 min read
Apple Removes Fortnite Developer Epic From App Store
Apple has terminated Epic Games’s account from its App Store amid a legal battle over in-app payments on the Fortnite game. MacStories Managing Editor John Voorhees noted the termination on Twitter, as well as the fact that the App Store is currently featuring Fortnite competitor PUBG....
Bijay Pokharel,
August 29, 2020
2 min read
Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion
The Amazon CEO’s wealth reached an estimated $202 billion. Early Wednesday he crossed a milestone previously unseen in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking net worths: With Amazon stock edging up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon, Bezos’ net worth is up by $4.9 billion, making...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 28, 2020
2 min read
Facebook Says Apple Rejected Its Attempt To Tell Users About App Store Fees
The social media giant Facebook told Reuters that Apple Inc rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30% cut of sales in a new online events feature, forcing Facebook to remove the message to get the tool to users. Facebook...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 28, 2020
2 min read
Facebook Blocks Access To Group Criticising Thailand’s Monarchy
The social media giant Facebook has blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discuss the country’s king, after the Thai government threatened the company with legal action, theguardian reported. The decision, which has been criticised by human rights experts, comes...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 25, 2020
3 min read
TikTok To Challenge Trump’s Executive Order
TikTok said on Saturday it plans to file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, confirming an earlier Reuters report. “Even though we strongly disagree with the administration’s concerns,...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 23, 2020
1 min read
Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix In September 2020
Netflix has released its full list of new shows and movies coming to the streaming service in September, offering customers more ways to fill free time they may have from canceled plans due to the coronavirus pandemic. Coming to Netflix in Sept. 2020 September 1...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 23, 2020
3 min read
Alibaba Group Announces June Quarter 2020 Results
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020. The cloud unit of China’s largest e-commerce company delivered first quarter revenue of $1.75 billion, good for an annual revenue run rate...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 22, 2020
2 min read
Donald Trump Now Has A Verified Account On TikTok Rival Triller
U.S. President Donald Trump now has a verified account on TikTok competitor Triller, another sign of the White House’s disfavor toward the ByteDance-owned video-sharing app. The intro video features clips of the president and audio clips of him saying “I’m a professional at technology,” and...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 17, 2020
1 min read
Russia Has Developed ‘First’ Coronavirus Vaccine’ In The World
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to approve a vaccine offering “sustainable immunity” against the coronavirus and that one of his daughters has been inoculated. Officials have said they plan to start mass vaccination in October.The vaccine is based...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 11, 2020
1 min read
US Officially Passes 5 Million Coronavirus Cases
The United States surpassed 5 million coronavirus cases on Sunday, the most in the world. The figures were released Sunday by Johns Hopkins University, which said the U.S. death toll is above 162,000. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has released a model predicting...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 10, 2020
1 min read
Donald Trump Signs Executive Orders Banning TikTok & WeChat
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday banning transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of popular app TikTok According to the first order that will take effect in 45 days, any transaction with TikTok’s owner, ByteDance Ltd, or its subsidiaries, will be prohibited. The second order...
Bijay Pokharel,
August 7, 2020
2 min read





