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Meta Turns to Community Notes, Mirroring X
Social media companies are increasingly relying on fact-checks written by their users, allowing companies to step back from politically…
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Behind Disney’s Deal to Merge Hulu + Live TV and Fubo
Just a week into 2025, the media industry got its first consequential transaction: The Walt Disney Company is buying 70 percent of Fubo,…
Culture
Golden Globes Ratings Decline Slightly to 9.3 Million Viewers
The Golden Globe Awards drew an average of 9.3 million viewers for CBS on Sunday night, a modest decline from last year, according to…
Business
Washington Post Lays Off 4 Percent of Its Work Force
The Washington Post has started laying off roughly 4 percent of its work force, the company said on Tuesday, as the newspaper struggles to…
Politics
Meta Moves to End Fact-Checking Program
Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding…
Business
Nvidia Bets Big on Robots
Nvidia’s next target Heading into 2025, Nvidia was facing tough questions about whether the chipmaker central to the artificial…
Business
Microsoft to invest US$3 billion in India, to expand AI and cloud capacity
Microsoft will spend US$3 billion to expand its Azure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) capacity in India, CEO Satya Nadella said on…
Politics
Transcript: Trump Drops New Hints on How He’ll Screw Over Mike Johnson
Ornstein: He’s asking for the impossible, Greg, because basically he wants to use this process of reconciliation. These are supposed to be…
Business
Centurion exploring Reit listing for workers and student accommodation assets
It has previously considered a Reit listing in January 2015 but deferred the plan CENTURION Corporation is currently exploring the…
Politics
Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP
With a few big moves in recent days, Donald Trump is already showing how he’ll make life miserable for Republicans in Congress,…
Business
Indonesia to meet Apple on investment proposal, official says
INDONESIA’S industry ministry will meet representatives from Apple on Tuesday (Jan 7) to discuss its investment in the country, a…
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Taiwan Suspects a Chinese-Linked Ship of Damaging an Internet Cable
Taiwan is investigating whether a ship linked to China is responsible for damaging one of the undersea cables that connects Taiwan to the…
Business
KKR considering selling Japan’s Seiyu supermarket: Nikkei
US PRIVATE equity fund KKR is considering selling supermarket chain Seiyu in a deal that could be worth several hundred billion yen, the…
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Tencent SDRs fall nearly 7% after US designates tech giant as ‘Chinese military company’
TENCENT’S Singapore-listed shares, or Singapore Depository Receipts (SDRs), fell nearly 7 per cent on Tuesday (Jan 7) after the US…
Business
DBS upgrades PropNex to ‘buy’, lifts target price by 21% on positive earnings outlook
DBS Group Research on Monday (Jan 6) upgraded its call for real estate agency PropNex to “buy” and raised its target price on the counter…
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DBS upgrades PropNex to a buy rating, lifts target price on expected ‘rebound’ in property market
DBS on Monday (Jan 6) upgraded its rating for real estate agency PropNex to “buy” and raised its target price for the stock on a positive…
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U.S. Adds Tencent to Chinese Military Companies Blacklist
The Pentagon on Monday labeled Tencent, the Chinese social media and gaming giant, as a Chinese military business operating in the United…
Politics
SingPost issued government advisory to uphold governance after whistle-blowing report
THE government has issued Singapore Post (SingPost) an advisory to uphold proper corporate governance and processes after the…
Business
China’s WuXi Biologics to sell vaccine facility to Merck for US$500 million
WUXI Biologics Cayman will sell a vaccine facility in Ireland to Merck for about US$500 million as the Chinese company seeks to enhance…
Business
AMD adds Dell as commercial PC customer for the first time
ADVANCED Micro Devices (AMD), the second-biggest maker of computer processors, said its chips will be used by Dell Technologies for the…
Business
Samsung CEO touts AI fridges and washers after year to forget
SAMSUNG Electronics is ramping up investment in artificial intelligence (AI) for consumer electronics, betting on its ubiquitous presence…
Business
Singapore shares in the black on Tuesday; STI rises 0.2%
SINGAPORE shares ended Tuesday (Jan 7) in positive territory, even as overseas markets closed mixed. The benchmark Straits Times Index…
Business
The downfall of Hin Leong over 4 years
ONCE a giant in Singapore’s oil trading industry, the collapse of Hin Leong Trading (HLT) unveiled a web of fraud, forgery and financial…
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McDonald’s rolls back some diversity practices in head office
MCDONALD’S is retiring its goal for diversity in corporate leadership and shifting away from some diversity practices, citing a “shifting…