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Top U.S. tech firms including Amazon.com and Facebook filed a legal brief on Monday backing a challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary ban on the entry of certain foreign workers to preserve jobs for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters
Including 'berry blue' and 'red camouflage'
The Verge
New Ampere GPUs might be on the way
The Verge
Chinese electric car start-up Xpeng Motors has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange.
CNBC
Singapore's economy contracted by 42.9% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the previous quarter - sending the Southeast Asian country into a technical recession, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said.
CNBC
Twitter has approached TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts raised doubts over Twitter's ability to put together financing for a potential deal.
Reuters
Big performance, low power
Tom's Hardware Guide
The company sold its remaining shares of its PC business to Sharp
The Verge
Microsoft has confirmed that its new game streaming service, xCloud, will not appear on Apple devices.
BBC News
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants a "clean" internet.
BBC News
There's no word on when Google and phone makers will incorporate fix from Qualcomm.
Ars Technica
It says foreign rivals will claim an edge if the US doesn't change course.
engadget
Huawei Technologies will stop making its flagship Kirin chipsets next month, financial magazine Caixin said on Saturday, as the impact of U.S. pressure on the Chinese tech giant grows.
Reuters
Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, SDKs, chip designs, and more.
Ars Technica
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest Galaxy Note smartphone and new version of its foldable phone, the Z Fold 2, on Wednesday, hoping to regain ground against rivals Huawei and Apple as the smartphone market begins to recover from its COVID-19 slump.
Reuters
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued executive orders that would ban the social media app TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if they are not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies.
CNN
Apple's unified ecosystem is piling on the pressure
The Verge
"Exconfidential Lake" leak includes docs Intel provided under NDA as recently as May.
Ars Technica
China's dollar-denominated exports rose 7.2% from a year ago.
CNBC
5G connectivity on a very affordable Android
The Verge
His deputy Greg Joswiak will assume Schiller's previous position.
Ars Technica
Sony on Tuesday reported a 1.1% decline in first-quarter operating profit, much milder than market estimates.
CNBC
The European Commission will carry out a full-scale probe into Google's takeover of Fitbit.
BBC News
Anthony Levandowski, a former Uber executive who oversaw its self-driving vehicle efforts, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for stealing an internal tracking document from Google related to its self-driving car program.
CNN
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday denied a media report that it is considering buying a small stake in SoftBank Group's chip company Arm Holdings.
Reuters
The co-founder of the company described as the jewel in the crown of British tech has said it would be disastrous for it to be sold to a US computing firm that is reportedly negotiating a takeover.
BBC News
The best thing about the Pixel 4a is how good a deal it is.
engadget
Chinese artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology, also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging it has infringed on its patents.
Reuters
SoftBank Group under-reported income to Japan's tax authorities by around 40 billion yen ($380 million) in the financial year ended March 2019, a person with knowledge of the matter said, requiring the conglomerate to resubmit filings.
Reuters
Alphabet's Google is buying a 6.6% stake in home security firm ADT for $450 million in a deal that will allow it to provide service to customers of its Nest home security devices.
CNBC
China said on Monday that 28-nanometre chips that enable mobile devices to receive signals from the Beidou navigation system are in mass production and mass manufacturing of high-precision 22-nanometre positioning chips will soon kick off.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics is forging a comeback in India's smartphone market with a new range of budget devices and a ramped-up online presence, aiming to recoup ground ceded to Chinese rivals such as Xiaomi.
Reuters
Nokia saw its profits rise 22% to 316 million euros ($376 million) in the second quarter despite quarterly revenues falling.
CNBC
Since Apple stock currently trades above $380, it means investors should expect to again have a chance to buy a share of Apple for around $100, depending on where the stock trades at the end of August.
CNBC
The Australian government has unveiled its plan to force tech giants such as Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for their content.
BBC News
Europe's economy shrank by 11.9% in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic plunged the region into a deep recession.
CNN
Microsoft says it is still discussing a potential purchase of TikTok, days after President Donald Trump said he would ban the popular short-form video app from operating in the United States.
CNN
Toshiba shareholders voted down board director nominees backed by two activist funds, the Japanese company said, winning a closely contested proxy fight with two of its major investors.
Reuters
Billions of dollars in tech revenue are at risk across Asia Pacific following the most recent United States restrictions on Chinese smartphone maker Huawei, Standard and Poor's said in a report.
CNBC
The coronavirus crisis might be causing widespread economic upheaval around the world, but the world's biggest tech firms are thriving.
BBC News
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