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SINGAPORE: Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content it perceived as critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, six people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The sources said that local moderators were instructed by a team ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that any deal to sell Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to an American company must "substantially" benefit the United States and provide "total security."

Normally stock markets tell us a lot about the economy, but there might be structural reasons why they’re divorced from reality this time, says an observer.

The hawks in Donald Trump’s administration are on the ascent. Do not expect the US to u-turn on this march towards a harsher stance on China, say Steven R Okun and James Green.

The U.S. Justice Department is moving "full-tilt" on its antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc’s Google and other Big Tech platforms, the department's second-ranking official told Reuters.

THE most visible payoff for the investment in technology in the financial sector over the years has been in how well the industry responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, said Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Thursday.

FINANCIAL advisory and NTUC social enterprise MoneyOwl is reducing its annual advisory fees and absorbing its third-party platform fee, in initiatives to help Singaporeans cope with their finances more effectively.

More users in the United States downloaded chat app WeChat and its encrypted alternative Signal, after President Donald Trump threatened to ban WeChat, owned by Chinese company Tencent, according to Sensor Tower data shared with Reuters on Thursday. 

Apple Inc on Thursday removed popular video game "Fortnite" from its App Store for violating the company's in-app payment guidelines, prompting developer Epic Games to initiate legal action against the iPhone maker.

Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods said on Thursday it secured US$200 million in funding, less than six months after it raised the largest investment ever for a food tech startup, bringing total funds raised since its founding in 2011 to US$1.5 billion.