China is "dissatisfied" with the Dutch government’s decision to expand export controls on ASML chipmaking equipment, the Chinese commerce ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Durov, who was last week placed under formal investigation in France in connection with the use of Telegram for crimes including fraud, money laundering and sharing images of child sex abuse, announced the move in a message to his 12.2 million subscribers on the platform.

The company explained that Vietnam is a highly fragmented market, with multiple players in transport and food delivery.

The social media giant, previously known as Twitter, suspended last month its processing of personal data contained in the public posts of users in the European Union and European Economic Area to train its Grok AI chatbot in the past three months.

The US technology giant, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music and video streaming to many of Bharti Airtel's 281 million customers.

Some Indonesian start-ups have lost their decacorn and unicorn status due to great drops in their valuation.

On Friday, the Press Council established a new committee to oversee the implementation of the publisher rights regulation, which paves the way for media firms to negotiate partnerships with tech platforms like Google and Meta.

Protesting drivers wanted the firms to raise the share they get for every trip from 80 percent now, and for the government to give special status for their terms of employment so they had more bargaining power over fees.

Meta Platforms faces a fine of up to US$3.62 million after losing a lawsuit by Brazilian department store chain Havan that accused the social media company of accepting paid advertisements that fraudulently use the retailer's name to deceive consumers.

The local OTA market may not be so welcoming to newer players, as it tends to follow a winner-takes-all pattern.

Hundreds of motorbike driver partners for ride-hailing and delivery apps are slated to hold a peaceful demonstration in Jakarta on Thursday to demand better work conditions and a firm legal standing.

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said senior officials in the Biden administration had pressured his social media company to censor COVID-19 content during the pandemic, adding that he would push back if this were to happen again.

Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources.

One of the newest players, Superbank, announced that it had reached its 1 million user milestone on Aug 12, less than two months since its mobile app officially launched.

Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.

Turning heads as they cruise past office buildings and malls, driverless taxis are slowly spreading through Chinese cities, prompting both wariness and wonder.

Users with Google accounts can suggest an edit to profiles of businesses in Maps that the tech giant would review before deciding whether to change a place's information or not.

China flew its biggest-yet unmanned cargo aircraft designed for civilian use, as the world's top drone-making nation steps up test flights of autonomous aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could ultimately ferry everything from takeouts to people.

Quaternary education is the fourth level of education following an undergraduate degree, or to put it simply, postgraduate study.

Chinese tech giants including Huawei and Baidu as well as start-ups are stockpiling high bandwidth memory (HBM) semiconductors from Samsung Electronics in anticipation of US curbs on exports of the chips to China, three sources said.

The communications ministry is drafting a gaming industry regulation that requires foreign developers to have a local presence and carries certain sanctions, but local developers say that could have the opposite effect of stifling industry growth and hampering global access.

Last week’s unprecedented global tech outage intensified discussions about the immense power of tech giants as the global economy increasingly relies on a small number of platforms and cloud services.

In his speech to inaugurate the Indonesian Digital Economy and Finance Festival on Thursday, Jokowi said that more than 64 million small and medium enterprises in Indonesia could significantly propel the country's economic growth once their connected to the digital payment platforms.

Homegrown aquaculture unicorn eFishery has laid off an undisclosed portion of its workforce and announced a shift in focus.

The sale of spectrum in the 700 MHz and 26 GHz bands, initially planned for completion by July and then scheduled to take place before the change of government, has been delayed again. 

Indonesia could tap billions in potential savings if it focused its emissions reduction drive more on energy efficiency, which was often overlooked in the country's energy transition, experts say.

Local game developers noted that the target set by Presidential Regulation No. 19/2024 is too ambitious, and suggested a more gradual approach.

Prior to this deal, HSBC provided a US$30 million loan for Indonesian aquatech firm eFishery and a $100 million loan for buy now, pay later platform Akulaku.

The major reversal follows concerns from advertisers - the company's biggest source of income - saying the loss of cookies in the world's most popular browser will limit their ability to collect information for personalizing ads, making them dependent on Google's user databases.

Talks over a global tax deal are continuing well past a June 30 deadline and governments are now looking to a Group of 20 finance leaders meeting this week for progress on a stalled plan to reallocate taxing rights on large multinational companies.