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The US Senate Judiciary Committee scrapped a planned vote aimed at allowing news organisations to win more revenue from Alphabet’s Google and Meta‘s Facebook. “Today we held over the bill in the Judiciary Committee in part because a colleague was out and we needed his vote on one amendment,” said bill sponsor Senator Amy Klobuchar. […]

T-Mobile US, Inc. said that it had agreed to sell its wireline business to Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. in a deal that would also see Cogent provide some services to the carrier for a fee. T-Mobile said it expected to record a pre-tax charge of about $1 billion in the third quarter of 2022 to

Meta Platforms Inc‘s Instagram is planning to drastically scale back its shopping features as it shifts the focus of its e-commerce efforts to those that directly drive advertising, the Information reported, citing an internal memo. Staff were notified that Instagram’s existing shopping page will eventually disappear, according to the report. Over the next few months

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it is introducing “BUSD Auto-Conversion,” which will be used to convert any existing user balances and new deposits of USD Coin (USDC), Pax Dollar (USDP) and True USD (TUSD) into its own stablecoin. The move is intended to enhance liquidity and capital efficiency for users, the company said

Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium Technology Co has shortlisted four European countries – France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom – for an $8 billion solid-state lithium battery plant, consulting firm Accuracy. ProLogium has appointed Accuracy to find a location for the plant, which should have a capacity of 120 gigawatt hours (GWh) to supply electric

SoftBank Group Corp plans to cut at least 20% of staff at its Vision Fund investment arm, Bloomberg reported on Friday, after CEO Masayoshi Son pledged to reduce costs on a record $50 billion loss at the unit in the six months to June 30. The conglomerate will cut at least 100 positions and could

Due to an unfortunate typo, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com mistakenly issued a customer A$10.5 million ($7.2 million) rather than the expected A$100 ($68), media reports say. Seven months later, when the exchange finally discovered the error, but till then some of the money had already gone, The Verge reported citing the Australian news outlet 7News as

Apple brought some significant changes to iPhones with the rollout of iOS 15. One of the changes was Safari background customisation–which allows iPhone users to change the background of the Safari web browser. Prerequisites: Do note: You do not need an internet connection to change the background image in the Safari web browser. Here’s how

Spelling mistakes or typos, and grammatical errors are pretty common in the digital world. However, courtesy of smart tools, they can be easily rectified. Thanks to the ‘edit’ feature– as it allows users to make real-time changes to their posts. 1. Launch www.facebook.com website and log in to your account. 2. Select the post you

National Sports day is celebrated on August 29 annually honouring the memory of Major Dhyan Chand– who is arguably one of the greatest sports persons India has produced.WhatsApp users can also use National Sports day stickers and share them with their friends and family. 1. Launch the Google Play Store app on your Android smartphone.