BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) – Lobbying group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe on Thursday urged EU antitrust regulators to temporarily stop Broadcom from ending its VMware Cloud Service Provider programme in Europe, ramping up its fight against the U.S. tech company. Read full story The Star : Tech Feed
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NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) – Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on Thursday, in its latest effort to secure power for fast‑growing data centers amid slow additions of new supply. Read full
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NEW DELHI, March 19 (Reuters) – India’s government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing its biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move opposed by a group representing the smartphone giants, industry letters show. Read full story The Star : Tech Feed
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March 19 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Thursday it will acquire Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT owner looks to strengthen its portfolio against rival Anthropic and gain more share in the artificial intelligence coding tools market. Read full story The Star : Tech Feed
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WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) – A U.S. trade tribunal preliminarily ruled that Apple’s current Apple Watches do not infringe patents owned by Masimo, rejecting the medical-monitoring company’s bid for a renewed import ban on the tech giant’s smartwatches. Read full story The Star : Tech Feed
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March 18 (Reuters) – Music company BMG Rights Management has sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in California federal court for allegedly using its copyrighted lyrics to train the large language models powering its Claude chatbot. Read full story The Star : Tech Feed
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Inviting visitors to Hong Kong Art Month for a cultural journey connecting art and the city HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 March 2026 – Art Central, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Tourism Board, is launching a digital Hong Kong Art Month Discovery Guide alongside a series of travel and experience
LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday that Britain wanted to align more closely with the EU on business regulations and would boost funding for quantum computing and artificial intelligence in a bid to generate elusive economic growth. Read full story The Star : Tech Feed
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