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Samsung Electronics is likely to post a fourth consecutive quarter of declining profit when it reports preliminary earnings next week, though investors will be hoping the worst has passed with chip prices showing signs of recovery.
Reuters
Personal computer maker HP Inc said on Thursday it will cut about 7,000 to 9,000 jobs as part of its fiscal 2020 restructuring plan.
Reuters
Speedy camera gets speedier
The Verge
A new timeline sheds some light on when 5G's many potential benefits could come to real people.
CNET
The United States plans to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European exports as soon as October 18, a senior US Trade Representative official said on a call with reporters Wednesday.
CNN
GoPro on Wednesday cut its revenue and profit forecasts for the rest of the year, hit by a delay in production of its latest Hero8 Black cameras, triggering a 19% drop in its shares.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world's biggest smartphone market.
Reuters
A workaround for the Trump ban has seemingly been eliminated.
CNET
South Korea's SK Hynix Inc has started using a high-tech material from a Korean supplier in its chipmaking process, a company official said on Wednesday, shifting away from a Japanese product for the first time.
Reuters
Apple CEO Tim Cook told German newspaper Bild iPhone 11 sales are off to a "very strong start."
CNBC
Visa, Mastercard and other key financial partners may reconsider their involvement in Facebook's cryptocurrency, Libra, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters
Karen Walker, a veteran of more than 20 years of global technology industry marketing, will join Intel as senior vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO), effective Oct. 23. Walker will oversee Intel's global marketing group and be responsible for building and strengthening Intel's brand, supporting growth strategies, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and increasing demand for Intel's products and solutions globally.
Company release
The official Purchasing Managers' Index and the private Caixin/Markit PMI for China's manufacturing activity were released on Monday.
CNBC
Apple denied tariff exemptions on additional Mac Pro parts despite US-made commitment (Sep 30, 2019)
Bloomberg reports today, however, that despite this commitment, the US Trade Representative's office has denied Apple's request for tariff exemption on certain components made in China.
9to5Mac.com
Samsung Electronics is likely to report a 60.2 percent plunge in its third-quarter operating profit, hit by continuing falls in chip prices, an industry report showed Sunday.
The Korea Herald
In Oracle's filing on Friday, the company said it owns less than 20% of Ampere.
CNBC
"For years, Silicon Valley looked down on China tech and believed it was only copying. But today, there is awareness that China is innovating and getting ahead in certain tech arenas," says Rebecca Fannin, author of "Tech Titans of China."
CNBC
There will still be a human operator onboard, but Baidu says these autonomous cars are Level 4.
CNET
All the rumors and leaks for one of the most exciting phones this year.
CNET
Windows ships with a full volume encryption tool called BitLocker.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Micron Technology shares fell in the extended session Thursday after the memory-chip maker reported another large earnings decline and predicted a disappointing holiday season.
MarketWatch
And we also get a nice breakdown of how Oculus Link's remote rendering works.
engadget
Founder Ren Zhengfei said it'll double production in 2019, despite the US blacklisting.
CNET
Amazon is crafting a set of proposed regulations to govern the use of facial recognition technology, company CEO Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday.
CNN
Globalfoundries is firming up plans to go public, its chief executive said, in a move that could give the company more financial firepower to take advantage of an expected surge in demand for computing power in phones, cars, and connected devices in homes and offices.
Wall Street Journal
Alibaba unveiled its first chip to power artificial intelligence (AI) processes called the Hanguang 800.
CNBC
The Asian Development Bank said in a report on Wednesday that India is expected to grow by 6.5% in the current fiscal year and 7.2% in the next year.
CNBC
Facebook's upcoming augmented-reality smart glasses will be differentiated from rivals by focusing on connecting people.
CNBC
Amazon dropped a ton of Echo devices, including a new Echo Show 8 and Echo Dot. And now you can get the voice of Samuel L. Jackson!
CNET
A U.S. House panel unveiled bipartisan legislation this week that would authorize $1 billion for small and rural wireless providers to replace network equipment from companies including Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp that lawmakers say pose a national security risk.
Reuters
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returned to a Vancouver court on Tuesday as her lawyers argued that Canadian authorities abused their powers and violated her rights to gather evidence against her, a claim the government denies.
Reuters
Google's system generates quantum statistics that we just can't simulate.
Ars Technica
iPadOS is now available to consumers, meaning you can get it for yourself. Here are all the new features found in iPadOS.
Digital Trends
Google emerged victorious in a landmark privacy case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday, after Europe's top court ruled that the US search-engine giant need not apply EU 'right to be forgotten' rules across all its global search results.
Yahoo!News
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg has made a passionate speech to world leaders at the UN, accusing them of failing to act on climate change.
BBC News
Bakkt, the firm behind the derivatives, is backed by ICE, Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group.
CNBC
Samsung's folding phone is finally hitting the U.S.
AP
It wouldn't, however, be a tablet.
engadget
Facebook on Monday announced the acquisition of CTRL-labs, a New York startup that specializes in allowing humans to control computers using their brains.
CNBC
After a months-long back and forth with the White House, Apple announced Monday it will keep production of the newest Mac Pro computer in Austin, Texas.
CNN
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