The Chinese government is requiring some citizens to use a smartphone app made in partnership with Ant Financial, the country’s largest digital-payments company, to determine whether users are at risk from the novel coronavirus, The New York Times reported. The app, known as Alipay Health Code, is being piloted in 200 Chinese cities and will eventually be used across the country, the newspaper...
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Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch

Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January, or less than 0.2% of monthly active users, according to a document viewed by The Information. The tiny number signals the challenge Elon Musk faces in turning the subscription product into a major source of revenue. The U.S. number is about 62% of Twitter’s global...
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