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Facebook Discretely Fields China Photo-Sharing App

Facebook's interest in China has led it to discretely create a photo-sharing application released there without the social network's brand being attached.

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Google Cancels Diversity Debate Town Hall

Google Thursday canceled a Town Hall intended to air viewpoints on diversity, sexism and free speech, citing worker safety concerns.

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Google Fires Defender of Tech Gender Gap

Google on Monday fired the author of an internal memo defending the gender-gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology, according to media reports.

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Iran's Tech Sector Blooms Under Shield of Sanctions

The names may be unfamiliar but the services are immediately recognisable: Snapp is Iran's answer to Uber, Digikala is its Amazon, and Pintapin its Booking.com.

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A Chinese 3D Print Studio Fuses Ancient Art with Modern Tech

The small, ornate figurines look like relics of a bygone age: a serene Buddha's head from the Tang dynasty, or a collection of stone-faced soldiers from the Qin era.

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Lonely Hearts Seek Virtual Girlfriends at Hong Kong Fair

Virtual reality games usually promise shoot 'em up adventures but in Hong Kong Friday lovelorn tech fans donned headsets to go on imaginary dates.

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Samsung Electronics' Record Earnings See It Overtake Apple

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted record-breaking earnings Thursday, putting it on course to better rival Apple's quarterly profits as it seeks to move past a bribery scandal and a damaging recall debacle.

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Facebook Profit Jumps as User Ranks Grow

Facebook on Wednesday reported a surge in profits in the past quarter, fueled by strong growth in money-making ads to its more than two billion users.

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Iran's Tech Sector Blooms under Shield of Sanctions

The names may be unfamiliar but the services are immediately recognizable: Snapp is Iran's answer to Uber, Digikala is its Amazon, and Pintapin its Booking.com.

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Russians March against State Internet Crackdown

Around 1,000 people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to protest against the government's harsh legislative controls on the internet.

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