Companies are now in the cross hairs of a national security law that gives China authority to demand that they turn over user data. By Brenda Goh and Pei Li SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – U.S. tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong’s security law will reshape their businesses,…
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Will Hong Kong have a firewall, similar to that of China? By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s new National Security Law will shake up digital surveillance in the city, with strict new company compliance measures that echo the mainland’s years-long crackdown on anti-government content. Foreign tech companies have…
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Analyst firm finds stability and revenue growth in broadband subscribers. S&P Global Market Intelligence firm has found telcos in East Asia reported a stable year-over-year fixed broadband subscriber and revenue growth in the first quarter despite the impact of COVID-19. Still, the monthly and quarterly numbers reflect traces of the…
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ZTE keeps busy with 5G projects across Asia. Telecommunications company ZTE Corporation has won the bid to build the 5G IPRAN project for Thailand telecommunications provider — True. ZTE will help True build its 5G IPRAN network to achieve unified transport of 2G/3G/4G/5G mobile services, FTTx, WLAN access and enterprise…
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Datacentre provider expands footprint across multiple locations in mainland China. Chayora Limited — infrastructure investor, developer and operator of hyperscale datacentre campuses in China — plans to open an office in Shanghai, as it continues its expansion into the rapidly expanding digital infrastructure market in China. The new office is…
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Finastra and Hundsun sign technology partnership to boost Chinese asset management industry. UK-based financial technology firm, Finastra has signed a partnership with Hundsun Technologies — an affiliate of Alibaba’s Ant Financial, to co-develop and deliver a Chinese version of Finastra’s investment management software Fusion Invest. Fusion Invest is a unified…
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Cloud growth attributed to public and hybrid cloud growth. Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba has reached US$1 trillion in gross merchandise volume across its digital economy for fiscal year, 2020. An area that has done well during this fiscal financial year is Alibaba Cloud, which grew its revenue by 58 per…
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Fireye says threat example of latest COVID-19 related espionage The Vietnamese Government has come out and denied it was behind phishing emails targeting the Chinese city of Wuhan and China’s Ministry of Emergency Management. According to Reuters Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry said the reports from Fireye, were “baseless”. “The accusation is…
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Tianjin-Beijing corridor gets colocation and network connectivity Chayora Holdings Limited and Telstra International have joined to provide colocation services and network connectivity from Chayora’s hyperscale campus to tbe Tianjin-Beijing corridor, China. Both organisations aim to enable customers to access a range of datacentre capacity, from retail colocation through to build-to-suit…
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