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Added on the 06/01/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
New York (USA), Jan 28 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Alba Vigaray) The shares of GameStop, AMC and other firms that have experienced an increase in recent days fell Thursday after being banned by the main commission-free brokerage applications in the United States.
Beijing, Aug 18 (EFE).- The bans announced by the President of the United Sates Donald Trump on Chinese social networks TikTok and WeChat have triggered a wave of uncertainty for the two companies with speculation over multi-million dollar losses, forced sales, legal challenges and possible retaliation. On Aug. 7 Trump signed a presidential order to ban "transactions" - as yet unspecified - with the two applications and their developers ByteDance and Tencent, effective in 45 days. The order cited national security threats over the alleged capture of personal data by the apps that could be shared with the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok had become of the biggest global success story of the Chinese tech sector in recent years, while Tencent is a digital giant on its own with an estimated net worth of over $695 billion. The impending bans could affect the two ventures in different ways. (Camera: WU HONG).B-ROLL OF TENCENT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING IN BEIJING, CHINA.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomes India's sweeping ban on Chinese apps including TikTok, saying New Delhi is ensuring its own security. "India's clean app approach will boost Indian's sovereignty," he tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Students at the No.11 High School in Hangzhou are the first in the world to use facial recognition to pay for food at their cafeteria. Pupils order food on screens and pay for their meals by standing before facial recognition screens. Face data from each student is collected and stored into the school's database. When students order food, the program compares their face to the database and automatically deducts money from their account. Students never have to bring cash or cards with them to school and payment becomes quicker and more efficient, but what do you think about the privacy issues?
Global social media giant Facebook has partnered with a Chinese selfie app called Meitu to bring Augmented Reality features to the Facebook camera. The partnership was formed under the banner of Facebook's AR Studio Beta to launch three exclusive camera effects, called Selfie from the Future, Meitu Family and Instant Glam. Since the first Meitu app was released in 2008, Meitu has registered over 1.1 billion unique downloads and records over 500 million active users. The Chinese tech company is valued at over 5.3 billion dollars.
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