Crackdown

Netflix was once the top streaming platform, but now, it’s struggling to hold its subscribers. It tested a new password-sharing crackdown in South and Central American countries. This was to encourage people to stop sharing their passwords across households. However, it seems that it’s starting to backfire.What Netflix password-sharing crackdown are we talking about?Back in March, Netflix introduced a new policy in South and Central America to cut down on people sharing their passwords across different households. If a…

Despite China aiming to rein in domestic Internet giants, Alibaba is still the best-paying tech company in the country at an average monthly salary of $5,000, followed by ByteDance and Tencent Holdings that offer average monthly wages of $4,900 and $4,600, respectively.According to South China Morning Post, citing data from Chinese career and social-networking platform Maimai, the most generous tech companies in terms of annual bonuses last year were smartphone maker OPPO, Tencent Holdings, and Ant Group.Huawei…

With the flip of a switch, Netflix has blocked one million people from accessing its website, mobile and tablet apps. The leading streaming platform has this week closed down shop in Russia following Vladimir Putin's decision to wage war on Ukraine. Netflix has previously announced that it would be pulling out of Russia, with this news revealed in March but it's only been this week that services have officially shut down.Netflix is not one of the Western sites that has been banned by Russian regulator Roskomnadzor. As…

China has shown signs of easing its crackdown on the technology sector which has wiped billions of dollars of value from its most prominent companies.But analysts said Beijing's recent positive rhetoric should not be mistaken for a reversal of policy."I think the big tech companies will have a grace period for maybe the next six months," Linghao Bao, tech analyst at Trivium China, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Tuesday."However, this is a really not a U-turn on the tech crackdown, the long-term outlook hasn't changed…

Netflix is looking to introduce advertisements on its platform and will begin cracking down on password sharing before the end of 2022, a new report has claimed, citing access to an internal note. That's much quicker than what Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings had put out just a month ago on the most recent quarterly earnings call. Back then, Hastings had said that the world's biggest subscription-based video streaming service would chart out ad-driven alternatives to the existing plans over the “next year or two.”…

Reed Hastings, co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer of Netflix, arrives for the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S. July 6, 2021.Brian Losness | ReutersNetflix could roll out its lower-price, ad-supported tier as early as this year, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.Netflix executives told employees in a note they were working to introduce the tier by the last three months of 2022. That would put it on a much faster track than Netflix originally indicated.…

The Bihar Police has ordered a crackdown on SIM cards procured through fake documents amidst a spurt in online sexual blackmailing cases. The police have asked telecom companies to book customers with SIM cards issued on fake documents."Cases of sextortion are increasing in the state. The Economic and Cyber Crimes Division (ECCD) of Bihar Police has registered around 15 such cases in the last three-four months. It has taken the shape of an organized crime," Additional Director General of Police (Economic Offences Unit),…