SoftBank reportedly won't buy into next month's IPO by electric car maker Nio Inc. The Japanese electronics giant explored investing as much as US$200 million in the Chinese car maker whose US headquarters is in San Jose, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The headline change to the Pixel 3 is the jump to a 5.5-inch 2:1 aspect ratio display, which is 10% longer than the 5-inch panel in the Pixel 2. There's also an increase in pixels from 1920 x 1080 to 2060 x 1080 to support the elongated panel.

San Francisco dealt a blow to the largest shared-scooter companies on Thursday, awarding two smaller startups exclusive rights to rent the electric-powered vehicles for a year in a decision that could change the course of the nascent market.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has bought a stake in India's largest digital payments company, Paytm. Berkshire confirmed "the investment was made" in One97 Communications - the parent company of Paytm.

Reports have long suggested that Apple has been working on a trio of new iPhones for 2018, and now we know when we'll actually get to see them.

We always see major products launched at IFA and it looks like this is going to be another year absolutely packed with announcements.

Apple has acquired a startup focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions to make a wearable device that would superimpose digital information on the real world.

Production at China's ZTE is back to normal after the lifting of a U.S. ban and its carrier network business will return to a standard growth track in 2019, according to the firm's newly elected chairman and chief executive.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday introduced a new portable solid state drive, the Samsung Portable SSD X5, which boasts improved speed that can transfer a 20 gigabyte file in 12 seconds.

ICE TECH is one of China's leading companies in AI algorithms and chip technologies.

More than 98 percent of internet users in China have smartphones, according to a state-backed report.

While Intel's new Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake mobile Core chips differ from their predecessors mainly in terms of available boost speed, Intel's marketing spin will emphasize something else: Notebooks and tablets sold with these new 8th-gen U- and Y-series chips will be labeled as "optimized for connectivity."

LG is embracing Google's Android One program not in the way you might have expected. It's launching the G7 One, a device that melds the G7 ThinQ's core design with Android One's streamlined app loadout and focus on timely security updates.

Bose may be one of the biggest brands in the traditional speaker market, but the company knows that connected smart speakers are the future. With Amazon's Alexa voice assistant fully integrated into its new models, the company is clearly gunning for premium rivals like Sonos and Apple.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise stock rose on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended on July 31.

Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing has issued a public apology, blaming "ignorance and pride" for safety lapses that led to the rape and murder of a female passenger. Executives said they would stop using growth to measure the firm's success and prioritize safety instead.

A minor fire on the grounds of the Tesla Inc factory in California on Thursday evening was contained by the Fremont fire department, a Tesla spokesperson told Reuters.

The robotic pooches cost about as much as some of the most sought-after purebred dogs at US$2,899. That's the price of Sony's First Litter Edition, which includes the Aibo, dog toys, commemorative dog tags, and a three-year cloud plan, which allows it to upload and access its memory.

HP reported better-than-expected fiscal third quarter earnings on Thursday, but the stock dipped in extended trading. Revenues in the period rose 12% from a year earlier.

The Pixel 3 and 3 XL leaks keep coming, and today, 9to5Google reports additional details on both devices' camera setups. The report says that both devices' rumored dual, front-facing cameras will house one wide-angle sensor, so users can take "Super Selfies." These cameras would also ship with an improved portrait mode. Google seems to be sticking with the single, rear-facing camera.

Russian manufacturing firm Kalashnikov has wheeled out a retro-looking electric car it says will give Elon Musk's Tesla a run for its money. The firm behind the famous AK-47 assault rifle presented the eggshell-blue prototype vehicle, the CV-1, at an event near Moscow.

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei says the Australian government has banned it from providing 5G technology for the country's wireless networks. It said fellow communications firm ZTE had also been banned, reportedly due to national security concerns.

The US and China are expected to impose fresh tariffs on US$16 billion of each other's goods on Thursday as their tit-for-tat trade war rages on. The second round of tariffs will see a total of US$50bn worth of goods from each side that will now be taxed.

Nokia today disclosed its licensing fee for 5G standard essential patents: EUR 3 (U.S. $3.48) per device, a flat rate notably lower than 5G licenses announced by rivals Ericsson and Qualcomm.

It will work nicely with the company's next-gen modems.

Japan is aiming to force wireless carriers to cut their monthly fees and stop bundling the cost of smartphones with wireless services, a senior telecoms ministry source said on Tuesday, in a move that is likely to hit Apple Inc.

Under its current framework agreement with Microsoft, Israel pays more than 100 million shekels ($27 million) a year for the procurement of Office desktop software, Windows and server software for ministries and government offices.

MEMS sensors manufactured by Murata in Finland are used in applications such as car safety systems and pacemakers.

$1,199 for Nvidia's fastest GeForce card

Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, plans to establish semiconductor-related operations in Zhuhai under a pact it signed on Thursday with the southern Chinese coastal city's government.

At the end of July, Amazon quietly removed its Kindle Voyage from its storefront, and appears to have discontinued the line of eBook readers, according to TheEbookReader and GoodEReader.

An Apple store in Amsterdam's Leidseplein square was briefly evacuated after an explosion believed to be the result of an overheating iPad battery resulted in leaking vapors, Dutch broadcaster AT5 as well as Dutch blog iCulture reported.

ARM's now-public roadmap represents its first processors that are designed for the PC space. ARM claims its chips will equal and potentially even surpass Intel's in single-threaded performance.

Sony has announced that it has sold 3 million PlayStation VR (PSVR) headsets as of the end of July, showing that its popularity has declined little since the fall 2016 launch.

The computer processing giant has acquired Vertex.AI, a startup that had a mission of making it possible to develop "deep learning for every platform," building a deep learning engine called PlaidML to do this.

Applied Materials shares fell 3.7% in the extended session Thursday after the company beat on the top and bottom line but issued weaker-than-expected guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter.

Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China, have signed a letter demanding more transparency to understand the ethical consequences of their work.

Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected, Nvidia has said. For a second quarter in a row, investors ignored Nvidia's growth in its main markets and ditched the stock, which fell about 5% in extended trading.

The award recognizes Corning for its market-leading innovation of data center cabling infrastructure designed to offer a competitive advantage and minimize costs for data center operators.

More than 30 years after it served as the setting for the birth of the semiconductor foundry industry with the founding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in 1987, Taiwan shows no sign of relinquishing its stranglehold on the US$62 billion global business.