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Dozens of Chinese phone games now require facial scans to play at night
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Tencent, the world’s largest Chinese video game publisher, has taken an extreme step to comply with its nation’s rules about limiting minors’ access to video games. As of this week, the publisher has added a facial recognition system, dubbed “Midnight Patrol,” to over 60 of its China-specific smartphone […]
Alibaba, Tencent stocks slide as U.S. considers investment ban
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. led a technology stocks selloff as the Trump administration considers barring investments in China’s two most valuable companies. Alibaba fell more than 5% and Tencent dropped as much as 4.4% in Hong Kong trading on Thursday, tracking losses in their New York-listed securities. The State Department, Department […]
The Way the Death CFIUS Turned into a weapon from the Transaction wars
This summertime, as soon as the Trump government ordered the favorite social networking program TikTok to market its U.S. surgeries , it indicated a new escalation in the U.S.-China commerce warfare . The conflict also introduced much of the public, such as lip-synching teens and their parents, into some close body named CFIUS–that the Committee […]
Court Cubes Trump’s WeChat Prohibit from taking effect Now
Expand / / There is and isn’t a ban in effect on WeChat. (charge: Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) A federal judge in California set a temporary block to the White House’s attempts to ban WeChat within the USA, preventing this prohibit going into effect at midnight tonight. “The plaintiffs […]