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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, June 13th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Online scammers are using the photos, videos, and social media posts of legitimate small businesses

to steal their customers. We'll find out about the impact this is having on

owners and what they're doing to try and stop it.

And then, Japanese companies, including those known for making camera film or printing magazines,

have become key suppliers in the global chips market.

We'll find out how they got this position

and what the Japanese government is doing

to make these companies indispensable

to the semiconductor supply chain.

But first, technology has expanded the reach of even the smallest businesses. Now they can easily court customers across the globe.

But evolving technology has also boosted opportunities for copycats,

scammers that assume the identities of legitimate businesses and steer customers to cheap knockoffs or

simply take their money.

Here to speak more about this is a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal Ruth

Simon.

Ruth, what kind of an impact are these scammers having on small businesses?

It's really hard for the businesses.

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