Japan's Renesas says considering buying U.S. chipmaker IDT

Renesas Electronics Corp is considering buying U.S. chipmaker Integrated Device Technology Inc (IDT) as it pursues further growth, the Japanese automotive chipmaker said on Friday.

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Japan's Renesas Electronics considering buying U.S. chip maker: source

Japanese automotive chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp is considering buying U.S. chipmaker Integrated Device Technology Inc, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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Tencent loses $20 billion in value after China attacks myopia with gaming curbs

Tencent Holdings' market value slumped by around $20 billion on Friday after China intensified a crackdown on online gaming citing rising levels of myopia, heightening regulatory risks for companies in the world's biggest gaming market.

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Hacker Who Leaked Celebrities' Naked Photos Gets 8 Months in Prison

George Garofano (left) The fourth celebrity hacker—who was charged earlier this year with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonged to Jennifer Lawrence and other Hollywood celebrities—has been sentenced to eight months in prison. Earlier this year, George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, admitted to illegally obtaining credentials of his victims' iCloud accounts using a phishing

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Medtech firms gets personal with digital twins

Armed with a mouse and computer screen instead of a scalpel and operating theater, cardiologist Benjamin Meder carefully places the electrodes of a pacemaker in a beating, digital heart.

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Tencent loses $20 billion in value after China fights myopia with gaming curbs

Tencent Holdings' market value slumped by $20 billion on Friday after China intensified a crackdown on online gaming citing rising levels of myopia, heightening regulatory risks for companies in the world's biggest gaming market.

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Japanese messaging app operator Line to launch cryptocurrency

Japan's Line Corp said on Friday it will launch a cryptocurrency in September, as the company tries to build up a wide range of businesses using its popular messaging app as a platform.

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Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for online accounts with the highest level of protection against phishing attacks. Google's Titan Security Key is now widely

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Lyft in talks to hire advisor for 2019 IPO: Bloomberg

U.S. ride services firm Lyft Inc is in talks with an advisor for a targeted March or April 2019 initial public offering, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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China online video restrictions wipe $20 billion off Tencent's market value

Plans to limit the number of new online video games in China wiped a further $20 billion off Tencent Holdings' market value on Friday, ratcheting up concerns over regulatory risks facing firms in the world's No. 1 market for mobile games.

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California looks to adopt Obama-style net neutrality rules

California lawmakers moved on Thursday toward imposing the nation's strictest net neutrality laws on internet providers, flying in the face of sweeping new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules seen as a win for the companies.

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BlackRock voted to replace Tesla's Musk with independent chairman

Funds run by BlackRock Inc voted in favor of a recent shareholder proposal that would have required Tesla Inc to replace Elon Musk with an independent chairman.

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Trump vows to fight censorship of conservatives by social media firms

President Donald Trump told a campaign-style rally in Indiana on Thursday that his administration is standing up for free-speech rights, warning that large social media companies could not be allowed to "control what we can and cannot see."

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Trump tweets are 'messages from some alternative universe': China Daily

Twitter comments by U.S. President Donald Trump accusing China of hacking former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email server are an attempt to cast China as a "scapegoat", the official China Daily said in an editorial Friday.

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