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Nearly 60 million jobs across the European Union and the United Kingdom are at risk from the coronavirus pandemic, according to McKinsey.
CNN
U.S. chip supplier Nvidia said on Thursday Chinese authorities had approved its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli chip designer Mellanox Technologies Ltd, overcoming the last obstacle for the deal announced over a year earlier.
Reuters
This marks Foxconn's latest semiconductor project in China after other chip-related development initiatives in Nanjing, Jinan and Zhuhai. The Qingdao semiconductor packaging and testing plant will focus on chips used on 5G and AI-based hardware products.
South China Morning Post
Covid-19 supply-chain disruptions are restricting operations
Bloomberg
A nationwide state of emergency has been declared in Japan due to the country's worsening coronavirus outbreak.
BBC News
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman sees the coronavirus-induced global recession lasting for the entirety of this year and 2021.
CNBC
And their names are much simpler
The Verge
The world's second largest economy contracted 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year earlier, according to government statistics released Friday.
CNN
Huawei's involvement in the most sensitive parts of EE's mobile network is to continue longer than planned.
BBC News
Higher temperatures allow for more than just a handful of quantum bits.
engadget
It could be used in Pixels as early as next year
The Verge
Apple shipped roughly 2.5 million iPhones in China in March, a slight rebound after one of its worst months in the country ever, according to government data published on Friday.
Reuters
Cisco on Tuesday launched a $2.5 billion financing program that lets its customers defer 95% of payments until 2021, giving companies additional leeway at time when some are facing a cash crunch but also need more remote-work tools.
Reuters
Apple said on Tuesday it would release data that could help inform public health authorities on whether people are driving less during lockdown orders to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
Reuters
The Washington-based organization expects the global economy to contract by 3% in 2020.
CNBC
Amazon has been ordered to limit its deliveries in France to essential goods only, amid claims it is failing to protect its workers from coronavirus.
BBC News
JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the largest U.S. bank by assets, kicked off earnings season for the big banks on Tuesday by announcing that it set aside billions in anticipation of loan losses.
Yahoo! Finance
There's a corporate boardroom drama unfolding at Imagination Technologies that features high finance, international intrigue, and an all-star cast.
EE Times
SoftBank shares fell 3.5% on Tuesday morning after estimating the Vision Fund will record a 1.8 trillion yen ($16.73 billion) loss in the year ended March due to the tumbling value of bets on unproven startups.
engadget
The Raspberry Pi Foundation hopes to make 250,000 Pi Zeros this quarter.
engadget
Computer manufacturing giant Dell released on Friday a new security tool that detects attacks attempting to modify a computer's BIOS component.
ZDNet
iPhone's fall refresh to add 5G on as many as four new models
Bloomberg
Russia and Saudi Arabia have struck a deal with other major crude producers to slash oil production in a bid to steady a market that has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN
LG is moving away from its old number schemes.
engadget
Teetering on a razor, smartphone giants try to balance infection tracking and privacy.
Ars Technica
Shift to working from home has helped boost PC sales
Bloomberg
He said the earliest the U.S. could reopen is the end of May.
CNBC
The European Union faces an existential threat if it cannot come together to combat the coronavirus crisis, Italy said on Thursday as the divided bloc sought to salvage talks on a rescue package to aid battered economies.
Reuters
HPE is using its financial services unit and asset management services to help customers balance tech investments and cash flow management.
ZDNet
It has six new Galaxy A-series phones in total
The Verge
Infineon said on Tuesday that it had received final regulator clearance for its takeover of U.S. Cypress Semiconductor and that funding was in place to complete the deal.
Reuters
A Huawei executive on Tuesday described as "unfortunate" plans by the U.S. government to curb the Chinese telecom equipment maker's access to global chip supplies.
Reuters
Build 2021 will likely be a digital event
The Verge
An attempt to seize control of the board of British graphics chipmaker Imagination Technologies by an investor linked to the Chinese state has failed after intervention by the UK government.
The Financial Times
The Corning Incorporated Foundation has established a COVID-19 Unity Response Fund in partnership with the United Way of the Southern Tier, the Triangle Fund, and the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes to support organizations that provide vital human services across the tri-county region during this public health crisis.
Company release
Governments have started tapping geolocation data from phones to help track the pandemic, and privacy advocates are concerned about the lack of formal restrictions.
CNET
Jack Dorsey is devoting $1 billion of his stake in Square Inc., the payments firm he co-founded, to help fund the coronavirus relief effort.
Time
A Hong Kong-based activist investor in Toshiba has asked the Japanese conglomerate to sell its entire stake in Kioxia Holdings when the flash memory chip firm is listed in an IPO that could raise up to $32 billion, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
Reuters
Recently there are concerns that COVID-19 cases will grow sharply in Japan, and production is increasingly coming to a halt in autos and other sectors worldwide.
Nikkei Asian Review
It's Arvind Krishna's first day as IBM's 10th CEO.
CNBC
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