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An email released by the House Antitrust Subcommittee on Wednesday show negotiations between Amazon and Apple over revenue sharing from the Amazon Prime Video app.
CNBC
Google's $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Reuters
On Wednesday, tech executives testified on Capitol Hill, remotely. You are busy, so here is my best summary of how this went
Washington Post
Its Q2 profit jumped 23 percent from last year.
engadget
U.S. tech firm International Business Machines on Thursday launched a research partnership with Japanese industry to accelerate advances in quantum computing, deepening ties between the two countries in an emerging and sensitive field.
Reuters
Apple CFO Luca Maestri has disclosed that compared to the September 2019 release of iPhone 11 models, Apple is expecting this year's supply of new iPhones "to be available a few weeks later."
TechCrunch
Qualcomm shares are advancing strongly Thursday in reaction to solid quarterly results reported by the wireless technology company and a long-term patent agreement it announced with Huawei.
Yahoo! Finance
Tencent's market capitalization has surpassed Facebook's following a huge rally in the Chinese firm's shares this year.
CNBC
Huawei became the biggest smartphone player in the world in the second quarter for the first time overtaking Samsung and Apple.
CNBC
No delays for AMD's major launches, unlike Intel
The Verge
Google is said to want more prominence for its own services like the Play Store
The Verge
Qualcomm on Wednesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue largely above Wall Street expectations, powered by sales of its chips used in 5G devices and reaching a settlement with Huawei Technologies.
Reuters
The most powerful figures in tech were hit with tough questions and documents that raised concerns about their competitive tactics during a high-profile antitrust hearing on Wednesday.
CNN
AMD raised its guidance for full-year revenue growth.
CNBC
MediaTek has hired a former U.S. Department of Commerce official to help the Taiwanese chipmaker navigate worsening US-China tensions that have already ensnared its customer Huawei Technologies.
Bloomberg
Microsoft investors are confident in its ability to weather economic storms, but its latest results will shed light on how COVID-19 has impacted its business for better and worse.
TheStreet.com
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies has cut its India revenue target for 2020 by up to 50% and is laying off more than half of its staff in the country, the Economic Times reported on Monday, amid calls to boycott Chinese goods.
Reuters
Chinese technology giant Huawei starts a four-day online event today focusing on how technology can be used in the fight against the coronavirus.
BBC News
Some say once all a ship's parts have been replaced, after years of service, it's no longer the same ship. Mac may not be Macintosh any more, but Apple's revival of an old idea suggests history may not have changed as much as we think.
ZDNet
Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala joined Intel from Qualcomm in 2015, and he was seen as a CEO candidate as Brian Krzanich resigned in 2018.
CNBC
The first Phase 3 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States began Monday.
CNN
It's the first charging standard to support over 100 watts of power for smartphones.
Digital Trends
Huawei Technologies' founder Ren Zhengfei's global ambitions are marked in bricks and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas from European cities.
Reuters
'9to5Mac' has discovered codes referencing TrueDepth and Face ID in macOS Big Sur.
engadget
"There's a $1,200 check coming, that's going to be part of the new package," White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said in an interview on CNN.
CNBC
Garmin, which makes GPS-enabled fitness trackers and navigational software, is suffering what it has described as an "outage".
BBC News
You might get 5G and wireless DeX, however.
engadget
VoLTE will reportedly be required on T-Mobile starting in 2021
The Verge
Intel said on Thursday its new 7-nanometer chip technology was six months behind schedule and it would consider farming out more work to outside semiconductor foundries, eroding a founding principle that manufacturing is key to its success.
Reuters
Multiple U.S. states are investigating Apple for potentially deceiving consumers, according to a March document obtained by a tech watchdog group.
Reuters
Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.
CNN
Space Exploration Technologies, Elon Musk's reusable rocket venture, is in talks to raise $1 billion in series N funding at a valuation of $44 billion, according to documents reviewed by CNBC.
CNBC
The blockbuster antitrust hearing featuring CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, which was supposed to happen Monday, looks like it will be postponed, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
CNBC
From bad to worse
Tom's Hardware Guide
Slack says Microsoft Teams is a 'weak, copycat product' that's forced on Office users.
engadget
SoftBank's chip company Arm has gathered takeover interest from Nvidia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Yahoo!News
Growth of Microsoft's Azure cloud slowed to 47% from 59% in the previous quarter.
CNBC
Corporate America is downsizing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to the bottom line of owners of traditional office buildings and a sign that companies are looking for ways to cut costs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters
Tesla will build its newest Gigafactory near Austin, Texas, Chief Executive Elon Musk announced during the company's earnings call on Wednesday.
CNBC
Even better: Early adopters will get a hefty discount.
engadget
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