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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
After almost five days of fraught discussions, European leaders have agreed to create a $858 billion recovery fund to rebuild EU economies ravaged by the coronavirus crisis.
CNN
Already carbon neutral today for corporate emissions worldwide, the company plans to bring its entire carbon footprint to net zero 20 years sooner than IPCC targets
Apple
Even as rival AMD continues to push forward with its 7nm silicon, Intel has so far hung on to a larger 14nm node for its desktop chips, only migrating to 10nm within this past year on mobile.
USA Today
Even the coronavirus pandemic cannot sate Americans' appetite for big TVs.
USA Today
Microsoft is building a new desktop-as-a-service offering built on top of Windows Virtual Desktop that could launch as soon as 2021.
ZDNet
A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet's Google will collaborate with India's Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world's second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say.
Reuters
Applied Materials Inc, the Santa Clara, California-based maker of tools for making semiconductors, on Monday introduced a new technology aimed alleviating a speed bottleneck in computer chips.
Reuters
Ant Group said Monday that it would list its shares on both the Shanghai stock exchange's STAR board and the Hong Kong stock exchange.
CNBC
Chinese Commerce Ministry weighs export controls on Nokia and Ericsson China-made products
Wall Street Journal
IBM's adjusted earnings fell 31% and beat analysts' expectations.
CNBC
Tae-moon Roh, in a blog post ahead of Unpacked, says the company will introduce new "power devices," including ones for the ears and the wrist.
CNET
The British government has asked Japan to help build its 5G wireless networks without Huawei, the Nikkei said on Sunday, a further step in a global technology and security war between the United States and China.
Reuters
There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Twitter hack on Wednesday night - but one thing most agree on is it could have been far worse.
BBC News
CEO of major Asian bank says 'a big, big challenge' is looming for the global economy (Jul 19, 2020)
Banks could experience "far more damage" to their balance sheets when stimulus measures that are keeping many businesses afloat are rolled back, said Piyush Gupta, group CEO of Singaporean lender DBS.
CNBC
Tesla shares have risen by more than 500% in the past 12 months, and as the ticket to ride the erstwhile rocket ship gets ever-pricier, interest is surging in new competitors that might be "the next Tesla."
CNN
EU competition regulators are seeking information from 400 companies to establish if there are problems in the market for voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri and other internet-connected devices that could lead to antitrust cases.
Reuters
The companies said they will collaborate on technologies that improve operations, optimize production quality and enhance worker safety.
ZDNet
Britain's decision to ban China's Huawei from next-generation 5G telecom networks is the latest blow to the global leader in telecom equipment and could help lay the groundwork for broader changes in the industry.
Reuters
Corning and EnerSys have announced a strategic collaboration to speed 5G deployment by simplifying the delivery of fiber and electrical power to small-cell wireless sites.
Company release
Companies that relocated operations from mainland China to avoid tariffs have seen the purpose of that move 'totally defeated'
South China Morning Post
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