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Tencent's market capitalization has surpassed Facebook's following a huge rally in the Chinese firm's shares this year.
CNBC
Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor matched forecasts for unadjusted quarterly earnings, saying a downturn in its medical X-ray and automotive business had been offset by sales of mobile and power management chips.
Reuters
Huawei became the biggest smartphone player in the world in the second quarter for the first time overtaking Samsung and Apple.
CNBC
No delays for AMD's major launches, unlike Intel
The Verge
Google is said to want more prominence for its own services like the Play Store
The Verge
Qualcomm on Wednesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue largely above Wall Street expectations, powered by sales of its chips used in 5G devices and reaching a settlement with Huawei Technologies.
Reuters
The most powerful figures in tech were hit with tough questions and documents that raised concerns about their competitive tactics during a high-profile antitrust hearing on Wednesday.
CNN
AMD raised its guidance for full-year revenue growth.
CNBC
MediaTek has hired a former U.S. Department of Commerce official to help the Taiwanese chipmaker navigate worsening US-China tensions that have already ensnared its customer Huawei Technologies.
Bloomberg
Microsoft investors are confident in its ability to weather economic storms, but its latest results will shed light on how COVID-19 has impacted its business for better and worse.
TheStreet.com
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies has cut its India revenue target for 2020 by up to 50% and is laying off more than half of its staff in the country, the Economic Times reported on Monday, amid calls to boycott Chinese goods.
Reuters
Chinese technology giant Huawei starts a four-day online event today focusing on how technology can be used in the fight against the coronavirus.
BBC News
Some say once all a ship's parts have been replaced, after years of service, it's no longer the same ship. Mac may not be Macintosh any more, but Apple's revival of an old idea suggests history may not have changed as much as we think.
ZDNet
Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala joined Intel from Qualcomm in 2015, and he was seen as a CEO candidate as Brian Krzanich resigned in 2018.
CNBC
The first Phase 3 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States began Monday.
CNN
It's the first charging standard to support over 100 watts of power for smartphones.
Digital Trends
Huawei Technologies' founder Ren Zhengfei's global ambitions are marked in bricks and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas from European cities.
Reuters
'9to5Mac' has discovered codes referencing TrueDepth and Face ID in macOS Big Sur.
engadget
"There's a $1,200 check coming, that's going to be part of the new package," White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said in an interview on CNN.
CNBC
Garmin, which makes GPS-enabled fitness trackers and navigational software, is suffering what it has described as an "outage".
BBC News
You might get 5G and wireless DeX, however.
engadget
VoLTE will reportedly be required on T-Mobile starting in 2021
The Verge
Intel said on Thursday its new 7-nanometer chip technology was six months behind schedule and it would consider farming out more work to outside semiconductor foundries, eroding a founding principle that manufacturing is key to its success.
Reuters
French-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics raised its full-year net revenue guidance, citing new products, customer schemes and improved market conditions, as it expects the worst to be over for the auto industry.
Reuters
Multiple U.S. states are investigating Apple for potentially deceiving consumers, according to a March document obtained by a tech watchdog group.
Reuters
AT&T's 5G network is now available nationwide, making it the second major American carrier after T-Mobile to hit the milestone.
CNN
Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.
CNN
Space Exploration Technologies, Elon Musk's reusable rocket venture, is in talks to raise $1 billion in series N funding at a valuation of $44 billion, according to documents reviewed by CNBC.
CNBC
The blockbuster antitrust hearing featuring CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, which was supposed to happen Monday, looks like it will be postponed, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
CNBC
From bad to worse
Tom's Hardware Guide
Slack says Microsoft Teams is a 'weak, copycat product' that's forced on Office users.
engadget
SoftBank's chip company Arm has gathered takeover interest from Nvidia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Yahoo!News
Growth of Microsoft's Azure cloud slowed to 47% from 59% in the previous quarter.
CNBC
Corporate America is downsizing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to the bottom line of owners of traditional office buildings and a sign that companies are looking for ways to cut costs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters
Tesla will build its newest Gigafactory near Austin, Texas, Chief Executive Elon Musk announced during the company's earnings call on Wednesday.
CNBC
Even better: Early adopters will get a hefty discount.
engadget
Samsung's next flagship phone, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, is built for playing Xbox games.
Digital Trends
Net income registered $1.38 billion, or $1.48 a share, in the quarter, up from $1.31 billion, or $1.36 a share, in the year-earlier period.
The Street
Nvidia and the University of Florida have partnered to build the world's fastest artificial intelligence based-supercomputer in higher education, the chipmaker said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Amazon confirmed it will hold Prime Day "later than usual" this year, but it stopped short of setting a date for the event.
CNBC
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