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London's High Court on Monday blocked an attempt to bring legal action against Alphabet Inc's Google over claims it had collected sensitive data from more than 4 million iPhone users although it said the company's actions had been "wrongful".
Reuters
Qualcomm will be investing $400 million (Rs 3,000 crore) in setting up its largest campus outside its San Diego headquarters in Hyderabad, IT minister KT Rama Rao's office said on Saturday.
The Times of India
The company has apparently looked at producing a Game Boy-like case that would turn your mobile device into a working version of the classic handheld console, complete with D-pad, buttons, the whole thing.
BGR
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 US companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America's technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
Bloomberg
SK Hynix said it would invest 20 trillion won ($17.8 billion) in a new memory chip manufacturing plant opening on Thursday in South Korea.
Reuters
WSJ cites "suppliers," admits most hardware specifics have not yet been locked down.
Ars Technica
In his order, US District Judge Ed Kinkeade of Dallas extended until 2022 the term of a monitor he appointed to assess the equipment maker's compliance with US export control laws.
South China Morning Post
Tencent Music Entertainment, which owns China's most popular music apps, has filed for a U.S. IPO seeking funds to develop content and new services, in what is expected to be one of the biggest U.S. listings by a Chinese company this year.
Reuters
Rakuten is highly committed to support the smooth network evolution from 4G to 5G in order to provide new and rich user experiences in Japan.
Company release
Cloud data centers have changed the networking topology and how data moves throughout a large data center, prompting significant changes in the architecture of the chips used to route that data and raising a whole new set of design challenges.
Semiconductor Engineering
Sharp said on Wednesday its first OLED smartphone would go on sale later this year in Japan.
Reuters
WiFi naming is about to get easier to understand.
engadget
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks to acquire Mumbai-based cable operator Hathway to speed up the commercial roll out of its high-speed home broadband services. RIL aims to connect 50 million homes with its Jio GigaFiber network.
Business Today
Since its Australian launch in March, Indian ride-sharing company Ola has expanded into seven major cities, signed up 50,000 drivers, recruited former eBay managing director Simon Smith, hired Starcom and The Royals and launched a new marketing campaign led by ex-P&G marketer Natasha Daly.
AdNews
The founder of WhatsApp has revealed that he left the Facebook-owned messaging platform over plans to introduce targeted ads to its 1.5 billion users.
Independent
Tim Cook has a pretty simple explanation for why Apple removed most of the podcasts and an app from Infowars founder and hatemonger Alex Jones from its directories, setting in motion a chain of events that ended in the conspiracy theorist being fully or partially banned from virtually every major web platform: Everyone can agree Jones is terrible.
Gizmodo
Iridium is partnering with AWS to develop a satellite-based network called CloudConnect for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
CNBC
For the last several years Berners-Lee has been secretly toiling away alongside colleagues at MIT on a new open-source project called Solid, a decentralized privacy-focused ecosystem that will reshape the web and "restore the power and agency of the individuals" using it.
Forbes
AMD's steady climb in CPU market share thanks to its second-generation Ryzen processors is becoming even more apparent as we head into the closing months of 2018. We've been following this trend via sales data from Mindfactory (as compiled by Redditor Ingebor), which showed AMD with a 45 percent share in June, at parity with Intel in July, and slightly overtaking the company in August with a 51 percent share.
Hot Hardware
With the reveal of AMD's next-generation Zen 2 CPU core soon approaching, the latest rumors have revealed that Radeon Technologies Group already received one sample for optimizations. The rumor comes from a forum member at HardOCP who's known to have some reputation on the forums when it comes to AMD related leaks.
Waste Management World
Jack Ma has quietly relinquished his ownership of the legal entities at the heart of Alibaba, symbolically handing back the keys to the Chinese technology giant he founded 19 years ago.
The Financial Times
Only three weeks after the partnership with Huawei, Monaco Telecom unveiled its nationwide 5G mobile network at the Monaco Yacht Show. Monaco Telecom and Huawei finalized the agreement early September.
Company release
Elon Musk has agreed to step down as chairman of Tesla. But Musk, the exuberant, relentless billionaire chief executive of Tesla, shows no immediate signs of changing his style.
The New York Times
The US and Canada are reported to have reached a deal to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) after last minute negotiations. The deal is said to involve more US access to Canada's dairy market and a cap on Canada's car exports to the US.
BBC News
The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tesla chief executive Elon Musk on Thursday of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company, saying he made a series of "false and misleading" tweets about potentially taking Tesla private last month.
Reuters
Nichia has today announced that an LED-related patent shared by Nichia, Citizen Electronics, Mitsubishi Chemical, and National Institute for Materials Science has been granted in the US.
Company release
Google has finally admitted that a "Project Dragonfly" is indeed in the works. But that's about all a Google executive was willing to divulge Wednesday about the codenamed plan, which has been widely reported to be a search product the company is developing for China - one that would need to comply with government censorship.
CNN
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth.
Reuters
"To put it simply, our outcomes share the same goals as the GDPR principles, but our approach is different,"
CBC News
That pricing is for the 256GB model, which retails for $1,249 off contract and therefore gives Apple around $800 of profit margin to play with. This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company.
PCMAG.com
The company announced Monday at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) that samples of its silicon photonics transceivers targeting 5G wireless infrastructure and data centers are available now, with production set to start in the first quarter of 2019
Network World
This fair experience of keyboard and mouse vs. Controller will be key for developers to get right in the console world.
The Verge
The filing is the latest salvo in that dispute, designed to put pressure on Apple to settle.
CNBC
In line with the general performance progression for the GeForce RTX family, the RTX 2070 is slated to deliver around 75% of the RTX 2080's performance.
Anandtech
The phone is perhaps best described as a photography-oriented mid-ranger. It's got a 6-inch, 2,220x1,080 Super AMOLED screen, an unnamed octa-core processor (which will differ by market and mobile operator), 4/6GB of RAM and 64/128GB of storage (again, depending on market and operator), a 3,300mAh battery and Android 8.0.
Mashable
Alexa-driven products Amazon launched Thursday include an anticipated AmazonBasics Microwave to a small cassette-sized gadget, Echo Auto, that will let Alexa hang out with you in the car.
USA Today
Micron Technology shares swung from a gain to a loss in the extended session Thursday after the memory chip maker's outlook fell short of Wall Street estimates.
MarketWatch
Adobe on Thursday announced that it's acquiring Marketo, a company that sells marketing software, from Vista Equity Partners for US$4.75 billion. The move could have implications for other competitors like HubSpot, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.
CNBC
On Thursday, HMD Global sent out invites for an event on Oct 4,saying it's welcoming "the latest addition to the Nokia smartphone family." It could be the Nokia 7.1 Plus.
CNET
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