Malaysian politics: Is Anwar-Najib debate a sign the country is hurtling back to ‘Game of Thrones’ style of politics?
Malaysia’s political analysts are sensing that the country is hurtling back to a period of intense political theatrics – usually a sign that its relentless ‘Game of Thrones’-style battle for power is nearing a new crescendo. A semblance of peace has been in place since last September when the current Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, […]
Twitter will recommend third-party apps for preventing harassment – Asia Post
Twitter is turning to outside developers for help in preventing harassment on its platform. Under a new experiment, the company will recommend third-party moderation apps as an additional measure users can take on top of the app’s built-in tools, With the update, which was first reported by TechCrunch, Twitter will surface recommendations for a series […]
Barack, Michelle Obama End Spotify Podcast Deal After Being Frustrated By Exclusive Terms: Report – Desi123.Com | Online News Portal Asia – World Latest News
Ex-US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama’s media company, Higher Ground, has ended its exclusive podcast deal with Spotify. According to Variety, they are currently on the lookout for other partners in the podcasting space. Originally inked in 2019, the Obamas have exited their exclusive pact with Spotify after being frustrated with the […]
Samsung to collaborates with Vi?t Nam at 46th World Skills Competition in Shanghai
HÀ N?I — The General Department of Vocational Training and Samsung Vietnam on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the supporting programme for Vietnamese contestants and experts participating in the 46th World Skills Competition to take place in Shanghai, China. This year, Samsung will continue to support contestants and experts in two vocations, […]
Global Telecom Enterprise Services Market 2024 – AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile Ltd, Vodaphone Group, Sprint
Gobal Telecom Enterprise Services Market 2019, Market Size Value CAGR (USD Million)and revenue ($$$) for historical period (2015 – 18) and projected years (2019 – 25), SWOT, Industry, Sales, Demand, Analysis, Opportunities and Forecast to 2025 All Cover in This Report The Telecom Enterprise Services market research reports contain a detailed scene of the Telecom […]
Instagram: Please don’t copy TikToks to our TikTok copycat – 24HTECH.ASIA
Instagram tweaks the algorithm to highlight original content over reshares Instagram this week announced several changes to its platform aimed at empowering creators. Most notably, the company has tweaked its ranking algorithm to highlight original content above reshared content. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri the following about the ranking change: “If you create something from […]
Kieron Pollard retires: Twitter hails ‘fighter and challenger’ after West Indian all-rounder quits international cricket
West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard decided to hang up his boots in international cricket on Wednesday. The hard-hitting batter released an official statement regarding his retirement on his Instagram account. “I have decided to retire from international cricket. It was a dream of mine to play for West Indies since I was a 10-year-old boy […]
PS5 Scam: Here’s How this Tragic Facebook Post Seeks to Dupe Users, Beware – 24HTECH.ASIA
The PS5 scam narrates a tragic tale in a bid to collect shipping fees from users and disappear, a common scam tactic. A common PS5 scam is doing the rounds yet again on Facebook, narrating a tragic tale and seeking to dupe users by using Sony’s latest generation gaming console as bait. The latter, which […]
Instagram to tweak ranking system to boost original content – 24HTECH.ASIA
ETtechNew Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram is going to tweak its algorithm to improve its ranking system and better highlight original content from creators, its head Adam Mosseri has announced.The social media platform will tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more on its platform.“We’ve added new ways to tag and improved ranking: Product tags, enhanced […]
Seller on Instagram allegedly dupes woman into paying $3,600 for a fake Chanel bag, then ghosts her, Singapore News – AsiaOne
One Singaporean woman, who only wanted to be known as Lee, thought she had found a good deal saving “about $100” after buying a Chanel handbag from a seller on Instagram. That ‘savings’ became a costly $3,600 mistake instead as the bag turned out to be a counterfeit, she said. This 27-year-old from the finance industry told AsiaOne on Tuesday […]
#BorisJohnson trends on Twitter during his India visit, here's why UK PM-JCB memes go viral
Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning to start his India visit, and was accorded a grand welcome along the four-km route from the airport to a hotel in the city. During his day-long stay in Gujarat, the British prime minister is scheduled to have a closed-door meeting with prominent business leaders from the […]
WhatsApp to introduce a paid subscription that extends multi-device support – 24HTECH.ASIA
After years, WhatsApp finally introduced multi-device support a few months ago. This particular feature has been highly-requested in recent years, after all, it has been available in Telegram for several years now. WhatsApp’s previous iteration in the form of WhatsApp Web was quite lackluster as it needed your smartphone to connect to the internet and […]
China not an ace for Australian politicians
SHI YU/CHINA DAILY In 1972, Gough Whitlam led the Labor Party to a historic election landslide and, in December that year, established diplomatic relations with China. In the 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Australia’s economy has benefited enormously from the economic rise of China. Bilateral relations were progressing smoothly until 2011, when […]
Hospitals in Shanghai make efforts to ensure medical services for citizens
Home > > Hospitals in Shanghai make efforts to ensure medical services for citizens ( Xinhua ) 08:09, April 21, 2022 A medical worker works at the emergency room of Minhang Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, east China, April 20, 2022. In order to better undertake the task of treating critically ill patients […]
Biden follows Trump not Obama in pushing for Assange extradition – Trusted Online News Portals In India | Breaking News India
Insight Online News Washington, April 21 : US President Joe Biden has surprisingly followed his predecessor Donald Trump rather than his old boss Barack Obama in demanding that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be extradited from the UK to the United States, University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle told Sputnik. Earlier in the […]
Naver Q1 net plummets 99 pct on-year on base effect – 24HTECH.ASIA
(ATTN: UPDATES with more info throughout; ADDS photo; CHANGES headline)By Kim Han-joo SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s top internet portal operator, said Thursday its net profit plummeted 99 percent on-year in the first quarter due to a low base effect. Net profit reached 151.4 billion won (US$122.5 million) during the January-March […]
WhatsApp Communities enters workplace, unites multiple teams chats in one place – Channel Asia
Credit: Dreamstime WhatsApp, the popular messaging app for consumers, has also found its way into workplace communications because of of its ease of use — whether IT like the idea or not. Now, WhatsApp is highlighting plans to introduce Communities, a new way bring together multiple group chats in one place, alongside new admin capabilities […]
Trending On Social Media | Air Zimbabwe Banned From Flying To Europe| Mudiwa Hood Divides Zimbabweans With US$55 Wool Hats | Africans Applaud Rwanda After Chinese Businessman Sentenced to 20 Years For Abusing Employee
Trending On Social Media | Air Zimbabwe Banned From Flying To Europe| Mudiwa Hood Divides Zimbabweans With US$55 Wool Hats | Africans Applaud Rwanda After Chinese Businessman Sentenced to 20 Years For Abusing Employee Here is a brief roundup of some of the stories which have been trending on Zimbabwe’s social media platforms. Air Zimbabwe […]
EXCLUSIVE Vietnam plans 24-hour take-down law for “illegal” social media content -sources – NewsBreak
HANOI/SINGAPORE, April 20 (Reuters) – Vietnam is preparing new rules requiring social media firms to take down content it deems illegal within 24 hours, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The planned amendments to current law will cement Vietnam, a $1 billion market for Facebook, as one of the world’s most stringent […]
Exclusive-Vietnam plans 24-hour take-down law for “illegal” social media content -sources – TODAY
HANOI/SINGAPORE : Vietnam is preparing new rules requiring social media firms to take down content it deems illegal within 24 hours, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The planned amendments to current law will cement Vietnam, a US$1 billion market for Facebook, as one of the world’s most stringent regimes for social […]
Elon Musk could set aside $15 billion of his own money to help finance his $43 billion Twitter bid, a report says | Business Insider India
Elon Musk could set aside up to $15 billion of his own cash to buy Twitter, the New York Post reported. Despite his wealth, Musk needs financial support from banks or other investors to finance such a large deal. Advertisement Elon Musk is reportedly scrambling to pull together his acquisition bid for Twitter. According to […]
Mastodon, the open-source alternative to Twitter, now has an official Android app – 24HTECH.ASIA
(Image Courtesy: Mastodon) Mastodon, the semi-popular alternative to microblogging platform Twitter, has now officially released an app for Android. The platform launched on iOS in July last year. What is Mastodon? Mastodon is an open-source platform for running self-hosted social networking services. It is a decentralised service that has no single entity or server overseeing […]
'Fun, surprising, instructive, and bewildering': PM Lee marks 10 years on social media, Latest Singapore News – The New Paper
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong did not quite know what to expect when he launched his social media accounts exactly a decade ago. “But it seemed a good way to connect directly with the online community and public at large,” he said in a Facebook post on Wednesday (April 20). Mr Lee joined Facebook on […]
Chinese E-Commerce Platform Dmall Preparing for Hong Kong IPO – Pandaily
Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Chinese e-commerce platform Dmall is expected to submit an application this quarter for a public listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx), local media outlet Photon Planet reported Tuesday, citing individuals familiar with the matter. An investment insider said that as early as the end of 2020, Dmall […]
Jacinda Ardern denounces Solomon defence pact with China, but says she can't just 'drop a WhatsApp' to Xi Jinping
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand is concerned a new defence pact between China and the Solomon Islands will lead to an increasing militarisation of the Pacific. But she said she had not yet raised the matter with Chinese President Xi Jinping directly. China said it had signed the defence agreement with the Solomon […]
Social media videos show officials dumping food in locked-down Shanghai – Salten News
Footage has emerged of Chinese officials dumping bags of fresh vegetables which had been donated to Shanghai amid the city experiencing food shortages due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Shanghai, which is home to roughly 26 million people, has been under strict lockdown conditions for three weeks. The Chinese government alleged the food rotted in transport and […]
DILG slams Facebook over warning on Esperon – Manila Bulletin
News / National / DILG slams Facebook over warning on Esperon Share it! [mashshare] DILG slams Facebook over warning on Esperon The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) deplored the decision of Facebook to warn National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. over an April 14 post urging all Filipinos to unite to […]