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Dec 5 : Hollywood unions and theater owners on Friday sounded the alarm over Netflix’s proposed $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, warning the deal would cut jobs, concentrate power and reduce theatrical movie releases if the deal…

HANOI: Vietnam’s trade surplus with the United States, its main market, rose to $121.6 billion in the first 11 months of the year, official data showed on Saturday (Dec 6), as exports surged despite US tariffs imposed in August.

The Southeast…

WASHINGTON: Netflix faced fierce criticism on Friday (Dec 5) over its blockbuster deal to acquire Warner Bros, the storied Hollywood studio.

The streaming giant is already viewed as a pariah in some Hollywood circles, largely due to its reluctance…

Dec 5 : SoftBank is in talks to acquire digital infrastructure firm DigitalBridge, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, as the Japanese conglomerate seeks to tap the firm’s AI-linked portfolio.

The deal could be struck by the…

THE AI RACE

Published research, though, does not automatically translate into technological capability. Moreover, the location of research expertise does not always map with successful commercialisation of technology – as a long line of…

Dec 5 : Cloudflare has restored impacted software services after a minor outage on Friday hampered access to crypto trading exchange Coinbase and Anthropic’s artificial intelligence chatbot Claude AI.

The web-infrastructure company’s shares fell…

Dec 5 : Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery’s TV and film studios and streaming division for $72 billion, a deal that would hand control of one of Hollywood’s most prized and oldest assets to the streaming pioneer that has upended the…

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 : Apple and Google have sent a new round of cyber threat notifications to users around the world, the companies said this week, announcing their latest effort to insulate customers against surveillance threats.

Apple and the…

BRUSSELS, Dec 5 : Europe is forging ahead with its crackdown on Big Tech, levying fines on Alphabet’s Google and Elon Musk’s X and opening new investigations, asserting its sovereign right to enforce its laws in defiance of U.S. President Donald…

Dec 5 : Some members of Congress on Friday deemed Netflix’s $72 billion proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery’s studios and streaming unit an antitrust “nightmare” for consumers and creatives, while the company touted the deal as driving…