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Italy probes ‘TikTok challenge’ death of 10-year-old girl
Agence France-Presse . Rome | Updated at 08:36pm on January 22, 2021
Italian prosecutors have opened a probe into the accidental death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly took part in a ‘blackout challenge’ on the video-sharing...
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Turkish messaging app BiP booms in Bangladesh
New Age Online | Updated at 06:46pm on January 17, 2021
Turkish messaging app BiP ranked the top of the users’ list in Bangladesh amid the concerns about privacy protection on WhatsApp. BiP currently holds the...
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Bangladeshi uses IMO in record numbers
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:11pm on January 10, 2021
IM apps such as imo played an important role in keeping people connected during COVID-19 which disrupted life, work and connectivity across the world, including...
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Apple follows Google in yanking Parler for ‘threats of violence’
Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:43am on January 10, 2021
Apple on Saturday followed Google and removed the Parler app from its mobile store for allowing ‘threats of violence,’ after the deadly attack on the...
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Trump orders ban on WeChat Pay and other ‘Chinese’ apps
Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:55am on January 06, 2021
US president Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a ban on Alipay, WeChat Pay and other apps linked to Chinese companies, saying they could route user...
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Ahsanullah University to host ICCIT 2020
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:58pm on December 17, 2020
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology is going to organise a 3-day 23rd International Conference on Computers and Information Technology (ICCIT 2020) in December 19...
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Massive outage hits Google services worldwide
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 01:12am on December 15, 2020
A massive outage knocked Google services including Gmail and video sharing platform YouTube offline across much of the globe Monday. Within minutes, social media sites...
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Massive outage hits Google services worldwide
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 06:59pm on December 14, 2020
Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company’s services. The outage...
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California joins US govt in bringing charges against Google
Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 02:04pm on December 12, 2020
California will join the United States government and 11 other states in bringing lawsuits against Google for abusing its market dominance, the state’s top prosecutor...
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United States authorities sue Facebook for abusing market power
United News of Bangladesh / AP . Washington | Updated at 11:30am on December 10, 2020
The United States government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller...