Dimon called the new digital currency a 'fraud' and that it wasn't 'a real thing'.

President Trump on Wednesday blocked a China-backed investor from buying an American semiconductor maker over national security concerns, a rare move that could signal more aggressive scrutiny of China's deal-making ambitions.

The yen may advance to 100 against the dollar by the year end as investors conclude that Japan is still failing to sustain inflation gains five years after Abenomics was introduced, according to HSBC Holdings.

When Apple chief Tim Cook declared the iPhone X "the biggest leap forward since the first iPhone" at his latest launch extravaganza, you couldn't help but wonder if he was referring to its features or its price.

Headhunters have been recruiting at Toshiba's Yokkaichi chip fabrication facilities in recent months.

China's Huawei Technologies is causing a stir among young Japanese job seekers by offering monthly salaries of around $4,000 for prospective science and engineering graduates.

Details of new iPhones and other forthcoming Apple devices have been revealed via an apparent leak. Two news sites were given access to an as-yet-unreleased version of the iOS operation system. The code refers to an iPhone X in addition to two new iPhone 8 handsets. It also details facial recognition tech that acts both as an ID system and maps users' expressions onto emojis.

Apple will no longer hold an annual music festival in London. While the iPhone maker has traditionally held its Apple Music Festival at the Camden Roundhouse, Music Business Worldwide reports that Apple is axing the show this year. It's not clear exactly why Apple is killing off the popular festival, but Music Business Worldwide speculates Apple might be focusing on single events instead. Apple Music recently partnered with Haim and Skepta for shows, and also sponsored Drake's summer tour last year.

Google's search service may be banned in China but parent Alphabet Inc. is hunting for workers in a further sign it has ambitions in the world's biggest internet market.

Intel's eight-year clash with the European Union over chip pricing has dragged on so long that the 1.06 billion-euro (US$1.26 billion) antitrust fine, a record at the time, now seems like a distant memory.

Late last month, Intel disclosed that executive Stacy Smith, who oversees the company's manufacturing, sales, and operations, will be out of the company by the end of January 2018.

A South Korean court on Monday rejected Qualcomm's request to suspend an order by the country's antitrust agency to take corrective action on the way it licenses patents.

Apple and Accenture are partnering to help businesses transform how their people engage with customers through innovative business solutions for iOS. The partnership will take full advantage of the power, simplicity and security of iOS, the leading enterprise mobility platform, and Accenture's capabilities as a leader in industry and digital transformation to help companies unlock new revenue streams, increase productivity, improve customer experience and reduce costs.

Western Digital's CEO apologized to his counterpart at Toshiba for strained ties after the US firm sued to keep their chip joint venture from being sold to rival bidders, according to an Aug. 11 letter.

They just had another launch event and in the last 6 months it seems like AMD has had one launch event after another. And AMD is still not done for the year! This week AMD launched the Ryzen Pro processor for commercial desktops.

Lattice Semiconductor is considering seeking President Donald Trump's approval of its proposed takeover by a China-backed buyer after a secretive national security panel repeatedly rebuffed the companies, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Apple and professional services company Accenture said Tuesday they will team up to help businesses build better applications for iOS, the operating system that powers Apple's iPhone and iPad.

Deloitte and HP are joining forces to give their digital manufacturing services and 3D printing services a little push. The partnership will see HP's 3D printers become part of the digital supply chain in more large-scale manufacturing environments.

SK Hynix is reportedly considering taking legal action against Toshiba after being rebuffed by the Japanese conglomerate during the auction process of a memory-chip unit without appropriate notice, according to sources close to the matter.

Toshiba may not seal a $17.5 billion deal to sell its memory chip unit by a self-imposed Aug. 31 deadline due to disagreements over details of an offer by the bidders, people familiar with the matter said late on Tuesday.

Over 400 Chinese expats working for Oppo and Vivo in India have returned home after a drop in smartphone sales as anti-Beijing sentiments are rising in the country's large consumer markets. Vivo's chief marketing officer Vivek Zhang also returned home this month, Economic Times reported.

The Dell Visor, Dell's first headset for Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality platform, will be available this October for $349.99 or in a bundle with two controllers for $449.99.

Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to pay out US$29.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit its shareholders filed after the disastrous Llano chip rollout.

Google has admitted that wide-spread connectivity issues in Japan were the result of a mistake by the tech giant. Web traffic intended for Japanese Internet service providers was being sent to Google instead.

Apple is reportedly holding an event on September 12 to launch the next iPhone, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Nintendo's latest videogame machine, the Nintendo Switch, is winning fans for both its lineup of popular games and its flexibility-it works as both a living-room console and a hand-held device.

Huawei had had a difficult time when it installed different NAND flash chips into its strategic Smartphone called P10 during first half of 2017. Into a same product, it installed eMMC and UFS standard storage device. Unexpectedly level of dissatisfaction from consumers who purchased P10 equipped with eMMC increased heavily. Industries believe that Huawei made a bad move by failing to obtain NAND flash memories.

Western Digital, part of a group offering to buy Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) memory chip unit, is not seeking a management role in the business, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 features a 3-day Industry Program designed to provide insight into the fundamental research activities happening in 5G, IoT, LiFi, SDN, autonomous vehicles and cognitive mobile networks.

An Earth-observation satellite for Taiwan's National Space Organization was launched into orbit from California on Thursday. The Formosat-5 satellite lifted off from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:51 a.m. atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which successfully landed its first stage on a drone ship floating in the Pacific Ocean as the second stage continued on and deployed the satellite.

A court in South Korea has sentenced Samsung's billionaire heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong to five years in prison for corruption.

Japanese businesses are bringing more production of appliances and everyday goods back home, as the cost appeal of making such items overseas fades amid a soft yen and rising wages in Asia.

Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that can stream 4K video and highlight live television content such as news and sports, according to people familiar with the matter.