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China’s ZTE Signs US Agreement to put itself Back in Business

ZTE Corp, China's leading telecommunication equipment maker has signed an agreement in principle that would lift a US Commerce Department ban on buying from US suppliers, as informed from the sources. ZTE had to cease its major operations post a seven-year ban imposed on the company in April when it breached the 2017 agreement and was caught shipping goods illegally to North Korea and Iran. The U.S. action which was first reported earlier in March had turn devastating for ZTE as China’s second-biggest telecom equipment maker relied heavily on U.S companies such as Qualcomm and Intel for up to a third of its components. While ZTE has refrained itself from commenting on the matter, a commerce department spokesperson has said that "no definitive agreement has been signed by both part...

Twitter Says World Leaders Like Trump Have Special Status

Twitter Inc on Friday reiterated its stance that accounts belonging to world leaders have special status on the social media network, pushing back against users who have called on the company to banish U.S. President Donald Trump. “Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate,” Twitter said in a post on a corporate blog. Twitter had already said in September that “newsworthiness” and whether a tweet is “of public interest” are among the factors it considers before removing an account or a tweet. The debate over Trump’s tweeting, though, raged anew after Trump said from his @realDonaldTrump account on Tuesday that he had a “much bigger” and “more powerful” nuclear button than No...

Russia? China? Who Hacked Yahoo and Why?

AFP- Yahoo's claim that it is the victim of a gigantic state-sponsored hack raises the question of whether it is the latest target for hackers with the backing of Russia, China or even North Korea, experts say. The US internet giant was under pressure Friday to explain how it sustained such a massive breach in 2014, which possibly affected 500 million accounts. Yahoo said the stolen information may have included email addresses and scrambled passwords, along with both encrypted or un-encrypted security questions and answers that could help gain access to victims' other online accounts. Sometimes the link between the target of a hack and a particular state may suggest itself easily. One of the highest-profile hacks came when North Korea is thought to have targeted entertainment tit...