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Alibaba is investing $15 billion in global tech research

Sherisse Pham, CNN Money — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:23:08 +0000

(CNN Money) — China’s Alibaba is pumping $15 billion into a global network of research labs aimed at challenging Silicon Valley’s dominance in future technology. The company said Wednesday that the investment would be used to establish research facilities over the next three years in China, the United States, Russia, Israel, and Singapore. Alibaba wants

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Samsung’s new AI assistant will take on Siri and Alexa

Sherisse Pham, CNN Money — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:12:26 +0000

HONG KONG (CNNMoney) — A new voice is about to hit the tech scene. Samsung is preparing to launch a digital assistant called “Bixby,” the latest product to result from the tech industry’s obsession with artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. Bixby will be featured on the new Galaxy S8, Samsung’s head of research

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WikiLeaks’ CIA hacking claims: How worried should you be?

Sherisse Pham, CNN Money — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:48:05 +0000

HONG KONG (CNNMoney) — WikiLeaks has set off an avalanche of alarming headlines with its publication of purported CIA documents. Allegations that the U.S. agency has hacked into smartphones, laptops, and internet-connected TVs to spy on people around the world are enough to make anyone paranoid. But security experts are urging tech consumers to keep

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Alibaba points to politics after U.S. puts it back on fake goods blacklist

Sherisse Pham, CNN Money — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 17:53:41 +0000

Hong Kong (CNNMoney) — Alibaba is back on a U.S. government naughty list, and the Chinese company is suggesting politics might be to blame. The U.S. Trade Representative said Wednesday that the e-commerce giant’s main consumer site allows the sale of an “unacceptably high” level of fake goods. It restored the site, Taobao.com, to its

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Facebook could pay heavy price if it censors news to please China

Sherisse Pham, CNN Money — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:20:35 +0000

Hong Kong (CNN) — Facebook’s latest signal that it’s willing to play ball with China? It has quietly built a censorship tool that would keep certain posts out of people’s news feeds, according to The New York Times. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made no secret of his desire to get the giant social network unblocked

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