International News

• Huawei appeals against U.S. ban on rural carrier customers accessing subsidies 05/12/2019
  China's Huawei has mounted a legal challenge against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the body designated the technology giant as a security threat and moved to bar it from a government subsidy program.
• China video streamer iQiyi sees price hikes at home, gold abroad 05/12/2019
  Chinese video streaming company iQiyi hopes to have as many as half its subscribers in overseas markets in five years despite Sino-U.S. trade tensions and increased government censorship at home, founder and chief executive Gong Yu told Reuters in an interview.
• Amazon faces U.S. antitrust scrutiny on cloud business: Bloomberg 05/12/2019
  U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has broadened scrutiny of Amazon.com Inc beyond its retail operations to include cloud-computing business, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
• U.S. Democratic panel flags misinformation concerns to Facebook 05/12/2019
  Facebook's policy on paid political advertisements has flaws that allow the spread of false information, the U.S. Democratic National Committee has said in a letter to Sheryl Sandberg, a top official of the social media giant.
• British cave explorer felt 'branded a pedophile' by Elon Musk tweet 05/12/2019
  The British cave explorer suing Elon Musk testified on Wednesday he felt "branded a pedophile" by the billionaire entrepreneur, despite Musk's assertion that his "pedo guy" tweet at the heart of the defamation case was not meant to be taken literally.
• Special Report: 2020 U.S. census plagued by hacking threats, cost overruns 05/12/2019
  In 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau faced a pivotal choice in its plan to digitize the nation’s once-a-decade population count: build a system for collecting and processing data in-house, or buy one from an outside contractor.