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Bing’s outage in China last week was a technical error say Chinese authorities

Bing’s outage came a day after a widely read article criticizing the quality of search results from Baidu.

Apple removes Facebook-owned Onava app from app store for violating privacy rules

Onavo lets users access a virtual private network, or VPN, to browse and download apps with privacy.

Hackers can remotely control fully-functional unsecured robots on the internet

Hackers could spy on camera feeds and even send commands to move robots around.

Unencrypted data being transmitted over HTTP increases the risk of hacking says Kaspersky Labs

The key reason that can cause this to happen is that some applications use "third-party" ready-to-go advertising "Software Development Kits (SDK)," Kaspersky said in a statement on Saturday.

China has shut down 13,000 websites since 2015, says Xinhua; Google, Facebook, Twitter and NYT among those blocked

China has shut down or revoked the licenses of 13,000 websites since 2015 for violating the country's internet rules, state media reported

Google, Facebook have to accept China's online censorship laws for accessing its 751 million internet users

Google and Facebook are blocked in China, along with Twitter Inc and most major Western news outlets.

Apple's Tim Cook says that 1.8 million developers using its platform have earned $17 billion from the App Store in China

Tim Cook shared the data on Sunday during a speech at China’s top public cyber policy forum, organised by the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC).

WeChat will now disclose user information to the Chinese government on request

Earlier this year, various Chinese social media platforms like WeChat, Baidu Teiba, Weibo had come under the Chinese scanner for alleged violation of cybersecurity laws.

China is planning to create a working committee to oversee Apple's data center

The Guizhou government in China said on its website (www.gzgov.gov.cn) that the Apple iCloud working committee would be made up of around 10 members.

Apple is putting more efforts in the Chinese market as smartphone share takes a dip

Apple's China revenues have stalled, falling for a fifth straight quarter in January-March, when sales grew in every other region.