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Google is reportedly in talks to buy a stake in Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms, which has been valued at $65 billion.
CNBC
A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in partnership with the National Institutes of Health has been found to induce immune responses in all of the volunteers who received it in a Phase 1 study.
CNN
China's largest state-backed semiconductor fund plans to reduce its holdings in two listed technology companies, a decision that comes following a torrid bull run in China's stock market.
Reuters
BT's chief has said it would be "impossible" to remove Huawei from the whole of the UK's telecoms infrastructure before 2030.
BBC News
Apple's store closures could've harmed its iPhone sales and led to the company ordering too few OLED panels to meet its contract with Samsung.
CNET
It's part of the company's $2.5 billion pledge to combat California's housing crisis.
engadget
Silver Peak will be combined with HPE's Aruba business unit to bolster its position in the software-defined wide area network market.
ZDNet
The cash will be doled out over the next five-to-seven years.
engadget
Singapore's economy slipped into recession in the second quarter, contracting by a record 41.2% from the previous three months and is facing its biggest slump ever this year as coronavirus lockdown steps hammer the trade-reliant city-state.
Reuters
SoftBank has hired Goldman Sachs to advise it on a potential IPO or sale of chip designer Arm Holdings.
CNBC
Semiconductor maker Analog Devices said on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products for about $21 billion in the largest U.S. deal this year, aimed at boosting its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking.
Reuters
Rajeev Misra, the chief executive of the colossal SoftBank Vision Fund, has revealed where he's been investing during the coronavirus pandemic.
CNBC
China is building tens of thousands of 5G base stations every week. Whether it wins technological dominance or not, domestic supply chains may be revived and allow the country to maintain and advance - its position as the factory floor of the world
Yahoo!News
Qualcomm has become the newest high-profile backer of four-year-old Reliance Jio Platforms, which has raised more than $15.7 billion in the past 12 weeks from as many investors.
Yahoo!News
Companies around the world will take on as much as $1 trillion of new debt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coronavirus, a new study of 900 top firms has estimated.
Reuters
The pandemic has created a demand for PCs and laptops
The Verge
The Trump administration plans to finalize regulations this week that will bar the U.S. government from buying goods or services from any company that uses products from five Chinese companies including Huawei, Hikvision and Dahua, a U.S. official said.
Reuters
Are you looking for collaboration opportunities in Smart Manufacturing overseas projects? The Europe-Taiwan Smart Manufacturing Supply Chain Application Sharing and Matchmaking Event is just the right place!
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Explore cooperation opportunities between EU and Taiwan in smart manufacturing. Join leading companies and experts from Taiwan and Europe in discussions about the latest trends, cases of factory automation and digitalization, system integration and smart components.
Company release
University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business is excited to host the 8th Annual Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit on Oct. 13-14, 2020. Join 1000+ attendees to network, engage with speakers & discuss supply chain outlook.
Company release
The first US Taiwan Startup Forum (UTSF) will be hosted virtually on Sep. 11 & 25, 2020. 15 startups from five technology themes - AI, Semiconductor, Blockchain, IoT, and Digital Health will be presenting to 14 venture capital investors and hundreds of attendees.
Company release
University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business is excited to host the 8th Annual Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit on Oct. 13-14, 2020. Join 1000+ attendees to network, engage with speakers & discuss supply chain outlook.
Company release
WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle startup, said on Friday it has become the first autonomous company to start fully driverless vehicle testing in China, as the world's biggest auto market accelerates development of autonomous technologies.
Reuters
Sony is taking a minority stake in Epic, in a strategic investment deal that expands on an existing relationship between both firms.
CNBC
Tesla will be able to make its vehicles completely autonomous by the end of this year, founder Elon Musk has said.
BBC News
BT and Vodafone have said their UK customers would face mobile phone signal blackouts if they are given three years or less to strip Huawei's equipment out of their 5G networks.
BBC News
Adding to other services like Philo
The Verge
Nvidia has overtaken Intel for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker.
Reuters
Today, Intel announced Thunderbolt 4, it's newest connectivity standard. You might recall that the company is actually letting go of Thunderbolt 3, with its 40Gbps speeds being offered up to USB 4.0.
Neowin.net
Qualcomm's flagship SoC gets a midcycle upgrade with the latest Wi-Fi standard.
Ars Technica
It could reduce costs but also help the environment
The Verge
The Fenix 6S gets an extra day and a half of life with the built-in solar panel.
engadget
You don't need an Apple TV box to sing along to Apple Music on your TV.
engadget
Ericsson is not sourcing products from Panda Electronics Group, one of the companies named by the United States as potentially controlled by the Chinese military, the Swedish telecom gear maker said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Europe's second top court on Wednesday cut Infineon Technologies' cartel fine by 7% to 76.87 million euros ($86.7 million), saying that the German chipmaker had fewer anti-competitive contacts with other cartel members than EU antitrust regulators had said.
Reuters
Arm, the world's leading supplier of CPU and GPU designs, just announced that it plans to transfer the IoT Services Group (ISG), which includes the IoT Platform and Treasure Data teams, to its parent company SoftBank.
Forbes
Nvidia's new A100 flagship GPU is powering a new family of Google cloud computing instances -- including one that provides access to 16 GPUs.
The Street
A new video-encoding technology that promises to cut data use by at least half has been announced, after three years of talks involving some of the tech industry's largest players.
BBC News
The phone giant becomes the latest company to move its product launch online as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
CNET
Microsoft took control of domains that lodged phishing attacks against some users.
CNBC
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