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The UK regulatory body known as the CMA has thus far not been very positive towards Microsoft's $69 billion dollar Activision merger.
The deal would see Microsoft gain control of franchises like Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Candy …

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Though Google is still making strides in the AI chatbot game, China’s Google, Baidu, has unveiled its much anticipated Ernie Bot. The company touts its chatbot as the strongest rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But amid the hype of GPT-4…

"A sale will not resolve America's national-security concerns over TikTok," said the popular video app's chief executive Shou Zi Chew in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance (BDNCE), has been facing scrut…

The Snapchat application on a smartphone arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading:
Credit Suisse — U.S.-listed shares of Credit Suisse gained nearly…

Iran's top security official held high-level talks in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday as Tehran seeks greater outreach to Gulf states amid mounting tensions with the West over the country's nuclear work and its drone sales to Russia. The visit by…

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with U.S. Representative Ken Calvert, a Republican from California, in Taipei on Thursday.
TAIPEI—The U.S. and Taiwan moved a step closer toward a bilateral trade and investment initiative, with both sides signalin…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior Iranian official visited the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, just days after Tehran agreed to restore diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia in a Chinese-brokered deal that raised hopes of a broader rappro…

Nineties pop culture nostalgia is powerful, and never more so than in these troubled times. And when looking back across the decades at the films released 30 years ago, its interesting to note how many have endured—and how many never got sequels or sp…

FILE – The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. TikTok was dismissive Wednesday, March 15, of reports that the Biden administration was calling for its Chinese owners to sell th…

Shares of Baidu fell as much as 10 percent on Thursday after the web search company showed only a pre-recorded video of its AI chatbot Ernie in the first public release of China’s answer to ChatGPT.
The Beijing-based tech company has claimed Ernie wil…