Samsung Electronics shares worth $1.1 billon sold in block deal: Report

Samsung Electronics shares worth about $1.1 billion were sold in a block deal on Thursday, according to a document, which some analysts attributed to the Samsung conglomerate's controlling family raising cash to meet a big tax bill. https://ift.tt/Tdg7AQ9

Russia-Ukraine war: Google to pause these ads on YouTube

Alphabet-owned Google will not help websites, apps and YouTube channels sell ads alongside content that it deems exploits, dismisses or condones the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US company said Wednesday. https://ift.tt/4Yoch5W

Twitter finally rolls out an update to DMs that lets users search messages for contents, not just names, on web, iOS, and Android (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter finally rolls out an update to DMs that lets users search messages for contents, not just names, on web, iOS, and Android  —  The search bar now scours the content of your messages  —  Twitter announced on Wednesday that its DM search feature has gotten a big upgrade …

Nvidia CEO says company "very interested" in exploring chip manufacturing with Intel

Nvidia Corp is interested in exploring using Intel Corp for manufacturing its chips, Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said on a call with reporters on Wednesday. https://ift.tt/rSzFIyJ

EU rules must focus on reaping benefits of AI instead of restricting it, says lawmaker

Europe's attempt to set landmark rules for artificial intelligence should take a positive approach to reap the benefits of the technology rather than restrict it, European Parliament lawmaker Svenja Hahn said on Tuesday. https://ift.tt/wB5NRUz

SpaceX's Starship rocket to "hopefully" take first orbital flight in May: Elon Musk

SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket will "hopefully" take its first orbital flight in May, company founder and CEO Elon Musk has said. https://ift.tt/hosI5nQ

The EU could unveil the Digital Markets Act as early as Thursday; sources say the DMA targets companies with €75B+ market cap and at least 45,000 active users (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

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The EU could unveil the Digital Markets Act as early as Thursday; sources say the DMA targets companies with €75B+ market cap and at least 45,000 active users  —  Digital Markets Act now expected to target core online platforms with market cap of at least €75bn

Okta says the "maximum potential impact" of its security breach was to 366 customers whose data was accessed by outside contractor Sitel; Okta has 15K+ clients (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Okta says the “maximum potential impact” of its security breach was to 366 customers whose data was accessed by outside contractor Sitel; Okta has 15K+ clients  —  Hundreds of customers of digital authentication firm Okta Inc have possibly been affected by a security breach caused …

WhatApp Android beta users to get these new emojis

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Sony PlayStation 5 to go on pre-orders in India again

Sony PlayStation 5 is set to go on pre-orders in India once again. https://ift.tt/uVmUgZn

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue rose 21.4% YoY to ~$13.45B, net income grew 39.6% YoY to ~$702M, and smartphone shipments rose 4.4% to 44.1M (Reuters)

Reuters:
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue rose 21.4% YoY to ~$13.45B, net income grew 39.6% YoY to ~$702M, and smartphone shipments rose 4.4% to 44.1M  —  Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) on Tuesday reported a bigger-than-expected 21.4% rise in fourth-quarter revenue, as industry shipments …

Apple supplier Foxconn resumes normal operations in Shenzhen, China

Apple supplier Foxconn has "basically" resumed normal operations at its most important campuses in the Chinese city of Shenzhen after spiking Covid-19 cases forced a shutdown. https://ift.tt/PJYMfiu

Sony has acquired this video game developer

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed its plan to acquire Canadian game development outfit Haven Entertainment Studios. Haven Studios was founded by Jade Raymond, co-creator of Assassin's Creed and former head of Stadia Games and Entertainment. https://ift.tt/hoZFGKz

Alibaba increases its share buyback program from $15B to $25B, sending its Hong Kong-listed shares up by 11%+; Alibaba has so far purchased ~$9.2B in shares (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

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Alibaba increases its share buyback program from $15B to $25B, sending its Hong Kong-listed shares up by 11%+; Alibaba has so far purchased ~$9.2B in shares  —  - Alibaba said on Tuesday it will increase the size of its share buyback program from $15 billion to $25 billion, effective for a two-year period through March 2024.

The Lapsus$ group releases ~37GB of alleged source code from Microsoft, covering Bing, Cortana, and other services; Microsoft says it is investigating (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The Lapsus$ group releases ~37GB of alleged source code from Microsoft, covering Bing, Cortana, and other services; Microsoft says it is investigating  —  The Lapsus$ hacking group claims to have leaked the source code for Bing, Cortana, and other projects stolen from Microsoft's internal Azure DevOps server.