Baidu CEO Robin Li is confident the company will win in a fight with Google in China, but Chinese internet users don’t seem to agree. The man behind Baidu, China’s version of Google, declared his company is very confident of engaging in another battle with the US-based search giant and winning again if it decides …

While you may be reading this on your phone, Cubans are just beginning to get internet connection on theirs. The Communist-run country has begun connecting selected phone users to the world wide web, Reuters reported Tuesday, adding that it wants to make mobile internet available across the nation by end of this year. The service, provided by local telco ETECSA, …

After conquering Uber, ride-hailer Grab is upping the ante with its expansion throughout Southeast Asia. The company launched a new on-demand grocery delivery service on Monday, along with a redesigned home screen for its existing app. Called GrabFresh, Grab’s latest venture lets users shop for groceries “from the comfort of home,” according to Grab’s statement. It’s a partnership with HappyFresh, …

Spotify thinks Drake is the answer to everything. But people are done having the singer shoved in their face. Excessive promotion of the singer on the music streaming platform — even on ad-free accounts — has people fuming and demanding for a refund, Billboard reported Monday. Drake was so prominently featured in promotion for his new album Scorpion, his photos …

After John Oliver roasted Chinese president Xi Jinping on Last Week Tonight, what happened next came as no surprise. China’s Twitter-equivalent Weibo moved to remove all mention of Oliver’s episode where he mocked Xi and his rise to power, the New York Times reported Thursday. CNET tried to publish a post mentioning “John Oliver” on Weibo, but the post was …

Monday’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore was historic. As such, you’ve probably seen plenty of reactions, on social media and traditional news media. What does it mean? Was it a good move by Trump? Will Kim actually denuclearise? These are all legitimate questions. On other parts of the internet, though? …

Typos have embarrassed even the best of us — it’s so bad Kim K wants Twitter to add an edit button — but in India, a company is paying for its mistake. An Indian court has ruled that Indian Railways will pay a total of 13,000 rupees (around US$190) to a man it kicked out of its train for producing …

Vietnam is taking a leaf out of China’s book when it comes to regulating the internet. Legislators in Vietnam have approved a law requiring global tech firms with operations in the country to keep user data there, Reuters reported Tuesday. In addition, social media companies like Facebook will have to remove offending content from their platforms within one day of …

If you’re a girl, you should perhaps pay more attention to your phone usage. Girls are twice as likely as their male counterparts to develop an addiction to phones, Yonhap reported Tuesday, citing a report by South Korea’s Ewha Womans University. This could be due to a higher usage of social networking services, it noted. The study, which assessed 820 …

Google is ramping up its efforts to return to the world’s biggest smartphone market. The search giant launched Wednesday a China-specific version of its storage management platform, Files Go. The app can be downloaded from third-party app stores hosted by Chinese tech mammoths, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and Xiaomi. Called “Google Wen Jian Ji Ke” (roughly translated as “Google Files Geeks”), …