Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Elon Musk's SpaceX to press ahead with Starlink tests, delays commercial service

SpaceX will continue beta testing its satellite-based broadband service Starlink into next year, the company said late Tuesday, indicating commercial service would not likely be offered in 2020 as previously planned.

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Amazon's cloud service sees widespread outage

Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers. It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said.

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Bitcoin falls 6% in Asian trade

Bitcoin dropped to $17,657.53 on Thursday, down 5.74 percent on the day, after losing $1,074.9 from its previous close.

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France orders tech giants to pay digital tax

France's finance ministry has sent out notices to big tech companies liable for its digital service tax to pay the levy as planned in December, the ministry said. France suspended collection of the tax, which will hit companies like Facebook and Amazon, early this year while negotiations were underway at the OECD

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Salesforce in talks to acquire workplace app Slack: Report

Cloud-based software company Salesforce is in talks to acquire workplace messaging app Slack as it seeks to expand its offerings to businesses, people familiar with the matter said. Salesforce's bid comes as Slack struggles to fully capitalize on the switch to remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Europe's largest tech conference to return as in-person event in 2021

Europe's biggest technology conference, the Web Summit, will return to Lisbon in full force as a massive in-person event in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to go fully online this year.

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