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Facebook Inc and Alphabet's Google, the two biggest players in online advertising, used a series of deals to consolidate their market power illegally, Texas and nine other states alleged in a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday.

Online publishers including Genius Media Group and news website The Nation alleged in a lawsuit seeking class-action status on Wednesday that Alphabet Inc's Google has unlawfully stifled advertising competition, hurting their businesses.

TAIPEI: The American Institute in Taiwan on Thursday (Dec 17) decried "disinformation" from politicians about food safety, amid a contentious decision by the island's government to allow imports of US pork treated with a leanness-enhancing additive. President Tsai Ing-wen's decision in August to ...

SINGAPORE: The total number of people employed here continued to fall in the third quarter but at a significantly slower pace as resident employment rebounded “strongly” to almost pre-pandemic levels.  Taken together with the faster decline in non-resident employment, foreigners excluding maids ...

THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will again extend its US$60 billion swap arrangement with the US Federal Reserve through Sept 30, 2021. In turn, the MAS USD Facility will also be extended till then, offering up to US$60 billion of funding to banks, to facilitate lending to...

Apple Inc's TV app and paid streaming service Apple TV+ will be available on Google's latest Chromecast device early next year, the search giant said on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE: The total number of people employed here continued to fall in the third quarter but at a significantly slower pace as resident employment rebounded “strongly” to almost pre-pandemic levels.  Taken together with the faster decline in non-resident employment, foreigners excluding maids ...

China's Chang'e-5 moon probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported, completing its return to Earth and bringing back the first lunar samples since the 1970s.

SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Thursday (Dec 17) that a US$60 billion swap facility arrangement with the US Federal Bank will be further extended through Sep 30, 2021 to facilitate US dollar lending to businesses in Singapore and the region. The facility ...

New Zealand roared back from a coronavirus-induced recession with record economic growth of 14.0 percent in the July-September quarter, official data showed Thursday.