sanctions
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Tech Giants Are Imposing Sanctions on Russia Because They’ve Become as Powerful as Nations
The world’s five leading tech companies – Google (now Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (now Meta), Amazon and Microsoft – have taken steps to impose significant and (mainly) voluntary sanctions on Russia, in response to its invasion of Ukraine. But the decisions didn’t come unprompted. Ukraine has lobbied the major tech companies in the same way it…
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Looks Like Huawei Might Be Screwed
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it was unsealing a superseding indictment against Chinese tech giant Huawei, charging the company and several of its affiliates under a law traditionally used to take down sprawling criminal syndicates that operated under multiple layers of secrecy.
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Pentagon To Add Two Weeks To Huawei’s Interim Trading Licence With A Longer Extension In Talks
Huawei Technologies has purportedly secured another two weeks to continue working with certain U.S. companies. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that, come Monday, the Pentagon will issue an extension to the Chinese company’s temporary general licence, though one far shorter than a previous 90-day extension allotted in August. This licence allows Huawei to complete…
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Slack: Sorry We Gave You The Boot If You Visited Iran
After unnecessarily banning some of its customers from its platform, Slack is now apologizing for the significant overreach.