The Trump administration is poised to add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to US investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

The US fight with China may change where your devices come from.

Demands include improved pay and safety conditions, and transparency over privacy and user data.

Both new Surface devices are expected in early 2021

China has accused India of discriminatory practices that violate World Trade Organization rules after the latter banned more Chinese mobile apps.

South Korea's LG Corp said on Thursday it would spin off five affiliates into a new holding company next year, the latest reorganisation at one of South Korea's family-led conglomerates as they pass to a new generation of leaders.

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SIE CEO also said there's "news to come" in response to Microsoft's Game Pass.

China's latest antitrust push is unlikely to result in a "sudden explosion of cases" against online platforms, according to legal expert Angela Zhang.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Tuesday it had rejected a petition from ZTE Corp asking the agency to reconsider its decision designating the Chinese company as a U.S. national security threat to communications networks.

HP's PC notebook sales jumped in the quarter as the coronavirus pandemic kept people home and in need of devices for school and work.

Tesla may be the new kid on the block in the auto industry, but it's quickly become a big kid on Wall Street.

Amazon said it is investigating what has happened to missing PlayStation 5 deliveries, amid reports of thefts. Some UK customers opened delivery boxes to find unordered items such as kitchen appliances or toys inside, instead of the in-demand console.

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Britain's telecoms companies could be fined up to 10% of turnover or 100,000 pounds ($133,140) a day if they contravene a ban on using equipment made by China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd under a new law put forward on Tuesday.

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang has described plans by Chinese regulators to tighten restrictions on internet companies as "timely and necessary."

Chinese handset rivals of Huawei Technologies including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are making aggressive moves to seize market share from their giant rival, after stepped-up U.S. sanctions hobbled Huawei's supply chains, industry insiders say.

U.S. business activity expanded at the fastest rate in more than five years in November led by the quickest pickup in manufacturing since September 2014, a survey showed on Monday in an indication the economy keeps making progress at clambering out of the COVID-19 recession even as infections surge.

The coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford is highly effective at stopping people developing Covid-19 symptoms, a large trial shows.

Samsung's plans for 2021 aren't what we all expected.

Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are investing more heavily in software, subscriptions and content.

Siemens Mobility and Deutsche Bahn have started developing hydrogen-powered fuel cell trains and a filling station which will be trialled in 2024 with view to replace diesel engines on German local rail networks.

It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept - first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s - was mainly an inspiration for writers.

Singapore's economy contracted by 5.8% in the third quarter compared to a year ago - coming in better than initial estimates, the country's Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Monday.

The Shenzhen-based company filed 8,607 wireless patents in the January to October period

Corning has announced a new breakthrough in glass-ceramic technology, Corning Guardiant. Under test methods approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), paint and coatings containing Corning Guardiant were shown to kill more than 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon are nearly identical to Intel-powered Macs.

More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalisation in one of the world's most cash-loving countries, the group's organising body said on Thursday.

Verizon and Apple are teaming up on another sales pitch for the 5G iPhone 12 - and this time, they're aiming at business customers.

China is cashing in on fears that the West's faltering economic recovery will keep interest rates near record lows for a long time.

The NUC M15 is a premium productivity laptop meant to compete with the XPS and Spectre computers of the world

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies is relatively well insulated from geopolitical tensions between the United States and China thanks to its focus on power-management chips, CEO Reinhard Ploss said on Wednesday.

Google and AMD will be among the first clients for TSMC's new SoIC chips, which use a new 3D technology to stack and link different types of chips in one package. The new chip packaging approach is meant to make the chipset smaller but more powerful and energy efficient.

SoftBank doubled its internal target for selling down assets this year in preparation for a potential "worst case scenario" in the next two to three months as coronavirus cases spike, CEO Masayoshi Son said.

Tsinghua Unigroup, a major government-backed player in China's technology race, has defaulted on a 1.3-billion-yuan ($197.96 million) bond, three sources said, as several high-profile delinquencies by state firms rattled the country's bond market.

German industrial robot-maker Hahn Automation plans to invest millions of euros in new factories in China over the next three years, keen to capitalise on an economy that's rebounding more rapidly than others from the COVID-19 crisis.

City officials in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday unanimously voted to authorize a development agreement with chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co that would provide $205 million in city funds for infrastructure such as roads and water improvements for a planned $12 billion semiconductor factory in the city.

Apple said it was protecting degrading batteries

Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm will all support Microsoft Pluton