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US Hits Russia With Fresh Sanctions Over Solarwinds Hack, Expels Diplomats

President Joe Biden signs executive order and imposes more sanctions on Russia over SolarWinds hack, and expels Russian officials

Three of Renault's four car factories in Spain will be partly idled until end of September, as silicon shortage continues to bite

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Entity list additions. US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to US blacklist, for working with Chinese military

Historic vote at Amazon fulfilment centre in Bessemer, Alabama, sees e-commerce giant take early lead in trade union count

Tim Wu appointed as adviser on technology and competition policy, signalling hard line on 'abuse of power' by large technology firms

US President lends his support to Amazon workers in Alabama trying to organise a vote on a trade union, and warns against interference

Chip shortage targetted by US executive order that will review supply chains for four critical products experiencing shortages

Biden administration is ramping efforts to help car makers deal with chronic silicon shortage that is impacting production

Biden administration to consider targeted restrictions of sensitive technology exports to China, and will not lift restrictions

TikTok's purchase by Oracle and Walmart halted indefinitely, after President Biden orders review of Chinese national security threat

Clean break. Twitter confirms it will remove all followers from US Presidential accounts after Trump handover to President elect Biden

Email to advertisers confirms Facebook plan to extend its ban on political adverts in the United States for another month

After both Donald Trump and Joe Biden claim victory, social networking giants Facebook and Twitter restrict posts claiming election victory

Joe Biden campaign team slams Facebook for blocking adverts in crucial week before US presidential election on 3 November