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The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts of Mali were back in the headlines following internet giant Google’s initiative to host a collection of them at an online gallery. The images of the documents, text in Arabic, can be found at a page called Mali Magic.

Subscription offers games for low fee as tech firms compete to establish Netflix-style streaming service

Researchers alleged that Russian internet company Yandex NV (NASDAQ:YNDX) had embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that help to transmit user information to Russian servers, the Financial Times reports. Yandex's software helped developers create apps for devices running Apple Inc's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's Android, systems that ran the vast majority…

Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak downgraded Pinterest Inc (NYSE:PINS) to Equal Weight from Overweight with a price target of $30, down from $53. The price target implies an upside of 13.4%. Pinterest's user and time spent trends were challenging while it shifted existing time spent toward lower-monetizing creator videos.  Nowak acknowledged the edge in larger…

CNBC Domino’s Pizza China Operator Eyes Hong Kong Listing

The Justice Department supported American Innovation and Choice Online Act and similar legislation banning large digital platforms from favoring their products and services over competitors, the Wall Street Journal reports. The DOJ saw the rise of dominant platforms like Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google jeopardizing open markets and competition. Amazon, Google, Apple…

LinkedIn (NASDAQ:MSFT) founder Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman poached artificial intelligence gurus from Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) for their AI startup, Inflection, CNBC reports. Inflection' looked to develop AI software products that enabled hassle-free communication between humans and computers. Heinrich Kuttler quit his research engineering manager role at…

Companies will need to find a new model that works for them and their employees – many of whom prefer to work at home some days

Google is trying to make booking a doctor's appointment a little easier using its search engine, the German News Agency reported. Though the new feature is still in its early stages, Google plans to roll it out soon across the US, if only for select providers at first, according to…

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