Apple has placed supplier Wistron on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until it addressed the way workers were treated at its southern India plant.

When Tesla officially joins the S&P 500 on Monday, Elon Musk's electric car company will instantly become the top performing stock in the index for 2020.

Failed bid apparently meant to placate regulators

Intel's Clover Falls AI chip will be part of the company's Evo platform, focusing on commercial PCs for now.

The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd, to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final weeks in office.

Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily says it has raised $700 million of fresh capital in its latest funding round.

Starting with the Snapdragon 888

European mobile operators are starting to consider Samsung Electronics, long seen as a non-starter, in the race to replace China's Huawei as the supplier of their fledgling 5G systems, although early talks suggest it will still be an uphill struggle.

China's Huawei said on Thursday it would invest 200 million euros in building a mobile phone network equipment factory in the east of France, pressing ahead with the roll-out despite French curbs on firms using its 5G gear.

The Commission on Thursday set out a number of commitments that Google must follow over the next 10 years.

Google buys Neverware, a startup with Chrome OS variant that squeezes extra life out of old Windows PCs and Macs.

Makers of cars and electronic devices from TVs to smartphones are sounding alarm bells about a global shortage of chips, which is causing manufacturing delays as consumer demand bounces back from the coronavirus crisis.

Fitness apps have seen a steep rise in users during the pandemic.

One of Huawei's European communications managers has resigned from the Chinese firm over concerns about its role in the surveillance of Muslim Uighurs.

Telecoms equipment maker Nokia's said it expects operating margins at its mobile networks business will be flat in 2021, it said on Wednesday in an update on strategy to streamline the Finnish company into four business groups.

International Business Machines said on Wednesday Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna would take over as chairman from Jan. 1, replacing Ginni Rometty, who stepped down as its long-time CEO earlier this year.

Now that Microsoft's Windows on ARM emulation layer can also run 64-bit x86 code, inevitably there will be questions as to how it compares with the Apple M1.

New portfolio of drives will be available in the first half of 2021

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday signed a partnership with IBM to combine "edge computing" with private 5G networks, the latest tie-up among big technology firms trying to help customers automate production.

In the meantime, current users can download an enhanced TikTok app.

Officials across Europe on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would give regulators sweeping new powers to take on US tech giants, threatening huge fines and raising the prospect of breakups or bans for repeat offenders.

Apple plans to raise iPhone manufacturing by nearly 30% to up to 96 million units in the first half of 2021, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported on Tuesday, prompting another jump in the shares of the California-based tech giant.

Oh, and expect to see the S Pen pop up in more places, too.

U.S. manufacturing output increased more than expected in November.

A targeted approach with American allies such as Taiwan and South Korea, both leading semiconductor manufacturers, with the narrower aim of keeping the most advanced technology out of China's hands may be preferred by the new administration.

Alibaba, Tencent-backed China Literature, and Shenzhen Hive Box Technology were each fined 500,000 yuan ($76,463) by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR).

Apple said on Monday it is investigating whether a Taiwan contractor, Wistron, flouted supplier guidelines at an iPhone manufacturing facility in India, after some workers ransacked the plant in a protest over unpaid wages.

It unfurls into a clock and notification display, a selfie mode and a wide screen.

In a big push toward data transparency, Apple will now display a summary of an app's privacy practices before a user downloads it from the App Store.

Shares of leading chipmaker Qualcomm were down 7.4% to close the trading session at $144.28 as on Dec 11 on the news that Apple is developing its own modem for its future devices.

The Finnish firm on Monday launched the Nokia PureBook X14 laptop in collaboration with Walmart -owned Flipkart for the Indian market.

This includes efforts to fight hate and harassment.

Would an Apple modem be better, or just less reliance on Qualcomm?

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Friday U.S. claims about risks to national security were completely false, following a U.S. decision to halt China Telecom U.S. operations.

Tesla, the U.S. automaker, will send delegations to Indonesia next month to discuss potential investment in a supply chain for its electric vehicles, the government said on Saturday in a statement.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered certain US telecommunications companies to remove Huawei equipment from their network.

Oracle's quarterly results beat expectations, and quarterly guidance came in above estimates.

Hyundai said the deal values the robot firm at $1.1 billion, suggesting the automaker group offered $880 million for the 80% stake.

The Modern Computing Alliance also includes Slack, Zoom, and others

This from the latest in a series of leaks on Samsung's newest phone.