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engadget
Apple is planning to launch four new iPhone models with 5G technology in October, according to a Bloomberg report.
CNBC
Tesla on Tuesday unveiled its biggest program of new share sales as a public company, seeking to cash in on soaring Wall Street interest in the electric carmaker to raise up to $5 billion that will ease future debt pressures.
Reuters
Amazon received a critical certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday, bringing it a step closer to launching drone delivery in the United States.
CNN
New research suggests that power companies are dragging their feet when it comes to embracing green energy sources such as wind and solar.
BBC News
Group's heir accused of inflating companies' value in bid to smooth succession.
Nikkei Asian Review
U.S. President Donald Trump's restrictions on China's Huawei Technologies have sparked widespread stockpiling of unsold product across the chip industry, and Washington's proposed aid to bolster the sector falls far short of what is needed to fill the gap, an analyst told Reuters.
Reuters
In a world rocked by the coronavirus pandemic and tensions with the U.S., the Chinese government is stepping up focus on the domestic market with the pronouncement of a "dual circulation" policy.
CNBC
TikTok's owner has said it will "strictly adhere to" new rules imposed by China over what technologies the country's companies can sell overseas.
BBC News
Riverlane's 'universal' Deltaflow. OS could establish UK's standing in the technology
Finacial Times
For mid-range gaming smartphones
Tech Radar
The economy shrank 23.9% in the three months ending in June, compared with the previous year, according to official statistics released on Monday.
CNN
Asia Pacific stocks mixed as China's manufacturing activity in August beats forecasts (Aug 31, 2020)
A private survey released Tuesday showed Chinese manufacturing activity in August expanding at the fastest pace in nearly a decade, with the Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index coming in at 53.1 for the month.
CNBC
Ericsson has achieved a significant 5G milestone by securing the company's 100th commercial 5G agreement or contract with unique communications service providers.
Company release
Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies is focusing on its budding cloud business, which still has access to U.S. chips despite sanctions against the company, to secure its survival, the Financial Times newspaper reported.
Reuters
China tightens tech export controls potentially jeopardizing TikTok deal, reports say (Aug 29, 2020)
An updated export rule from China could allow the country to complicate TikTok's sale in the U.S., according to multiple media reports.
CNBC
Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.
BBC News
It would also add the headphone jack absent on the original Xperia 5.
engadget
A lawsuit called the wireless earbuds 'shoddy'
The Verge
The affordable new TCL 6-Series is powered by smaller LEDs than competitors. Here's why that matters.
CNET
Four of China's five largest state-owned banks said they have increased their provisions against bad debt to brace for future losses due to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters
A Japanese company has announced the successful test drive of a flying car.
CNN
"We have never shipped so many PCs and it was really driven by the demand we see for people working from home and learning from home," HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores told CNBC.
CNBC
A second reading of the U.S. economy in the second quarter reflected the biggest quarterly plunge in activity on record, though the plummet wasn't as bad as initially estimated.
CNBC
Nintendo has looked into including more computing power and 4K graphics in the new Switch model, according to a Bloomberg report.
CNBC
Dell on Thursday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in quarterly revenue and beat profit estimates on robust demand for its notebooks and software products for remote work and online learning.
Yahoo! Finance
With two fans designed to make it easier to breathe
The Verge
Samsung Electronics plans to allow some workers in South Korea to work from home in September under a pilot programme, a company official said on Thursday, as the country battles a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases.
Reuters
Kioxia Holdings, the world's second-largest maker of flash memory chips, will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 6 in an initial public offering worth up to $3.6 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
Reuters
The United States is considering new restrictions on exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and associated software tools, lasers, sensors, and other technology to prevent them from falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries like China.
Reuters
China is likely to import at least $300 billion worth of semiconductors for the third year running, an industry association official said, in a sign of continuing reliance on foreign know-how despite efforts to gain local capability.
Reuters
China's Alibaba Group has put on hold plans to invest in Indian companies, two sources aware of the plans told Reuters, amid souring business relations and rising political tension between the two nations after a clash on their Himalayan border.
Reuters
Global smartphone sales dropped 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to data released Tuesday from Gartner.
CNBC
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma could be about to pull off a record-breaking IPO for the second time.
CNN
BabbleLabs takes out unwanted background noises in real-time. The technology will be integrated in Cisco's collaboration portfolio.
ZDNet
The government is funding basic research in AI, too.
CNET
The pandemic has spurred consumers to buy a ton more PCs than in the previous quarter.
PC World
Chip company Arm Holdings said on Monday it has put the brakes on the proposed transfer of two of its software businesses to its Japan-based parent SoftBank Group.
Reuters
The eye-catching dome will be part of the Marina Bay Sands resort.
engadget
Industry executives say government seeking to phase out Chinese equipment without formal ban
Finacial Times
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