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IBM announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State.
Company release
A group formed to respond quickly to hacks and other cyber threats has temporarily expelled the Chinese company after legal advice
Wall Street Journal
Huawei launched its new Mate 30 flagship smartphones Thursday in Munich.
CNBC
"I believe that if Steve were still alive, we would have combined our companies," Disney CEO Bob Iger wrote. "Or at least discussed the possibility very seriously."
CNET
Apple's new iPhones will use recycled rare earth elements in a key component, the company said on Wednesday.
Reuters
Facebook is hoping a partnership with Luxottica will result in the glasses reaching consumers by 2023, 2024 or as late as 2025.
CNBC
Chip stocks brush off trade war and rally to near record highs as investors bet on 5G (Sep 18, 2019)
Semiconductor stocks experienced a sector sell-off at the end of 2018 but rebounded in 2019.
CNBC
Huawei expects the roll-out of next-generation 5G wireless networks to start contributing to the firm's revenue from next year when China launches services, the company's deputy chairman said on Wednesday.
Reuters
He argues that it just creates more companies that behave badly.
engadget
HP's under one-kilogram premium PC achieves breakthrough power in "lighter than air" design for those on the go. Unveils gorgeous premium curved displays and accessories for home and office.
Company release
Credit rating agency Moody's changed its outlook on Hong Kong's rating to negative from stable on Monday, reflecting what it called the rising risk of "an erosion in the strength of Hong Kong's institutions" amid the city's ongoing protests.
Reuters
I'm standing inside Samsung Digital City, where some 35,000 employees work, eat, play, and work some more in Suwon, South Korea.
CNN
Billed as the world's first autonomous operating system, Oracle Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.
ZDNet
Oracle and VMware on Monday announced a deal designed to resolve years of tension over how Oracle handles technical support for VMware users and make it easier for them to move to Oracle's cloud computing service.
Reuters
Sony said on Tuesday it was rejecting a call by Daniel Loeb's activist hedge fund Third Point to spin-off its chips business, saying that the business is "a crucial growth driver" for the Japanese company.
Reuters
Its taking on OnePlus in India in partnership with e-commerce site FlipKart.
engadget
We'll see the Pixel 4 and probably a bunch of other Google hardware.
Ars Technica
Pre-orders for Apple's latest iPhones have gotten off to a better start than the last cycle a year ago, several Wall Street analysts said on Monday, citing their own research data.
Reuters
Four phones with three different notches
The Verge
CIOs have to continue to educate execs and senior leaders about blockchain opportunities and challenges and continue to develop proofs of concept to test its business worthiness, the research firm says.
Computerworld
Two U.S. senators on Monday asked the FCC and national security agencies to review whether two Chinese state-owned telecom companies should be allowed to operate in the United States, at a time of heightened concern about possible Chinese spying.
Reuters
Apple will launch a legal challenge on Tuesday to a European Commission order to pay 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in Irish back taxes in a landmark case in the EU's crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational companies.
Reuters
Even last year's A12 Bionic-powered iPhones were comparable to notebooks in terms of performance and the A13 Bionic has now improved on that on all fronts.
WCCF Tech
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that he will delay increasing tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15 as "a gesture of good will."
CNBC
Huawei Technologies' device business, comprising mainly smartphones, made a 11 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) profit in the first half of this year - as much as it earned in all of 2018 - a rare regulatory filing showed.
Reuters
Facebook announced big plans to revolutionize payments in Europe with the launch of a virtual currency. But EU finance ministers see libra as a risk to monetary stability.
Deutsche Welle
Apple spent more time talking about the iPhone's camera than new services or iPads at its launch event this week.
CNBC
Broadcom said on Thursday demand for microchips had hit a bottom and would remain at current levels, a sign that an industry downturn may linger, and added that there was no clear indication as to when the recovery would take place.
Reuters
Apple apparently isn't settling on just Face ID and Touch ID for biometric identification, and is continuing work on identifying a palm placed on a device to authenticate a user.
Apple Insider
Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal that may create a legal precedent for other large tech companies present in the country.
Reuters
US President Donald Trump will delay a planned tariff hike on $250bn of Chinese goods as a "gesture of good will".
BBC News
To some, the trade war is a "lose-lose" situation.
Forbes
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly launched an investigation to determine whether Amazon controls an inappropriately large share of the retail market.
The Hill
Hong Kong has just made a surprise 瞿30 billion ($37 billion) takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.
CNN
The giant elephant in the room at Apple's iPhone launch event on Tuesday starts with a 5 and ends with a G.
CNN
Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency suffered another setback on Wednesday when Switzerland said the proposed payments system could face strict rules that typically apply to banks, on top of tough anti-money laundering laws.
Reuters
The competition will feature 'Street Fighter V' and 'Rocket League'.
engadget
China is expected to buy more agricultural products in hope for a better trade deal with the United States.
Reuters
China's search engine giant Baidu said on Tuesday it will invest 1.44 billion yuan ($202 million) in artificial intelligence firm Neusoft Holdings.
Reuters
"At no time did we find any evidence of forced labour and we can confirm that this facility currently has no interns working overtime," it said in a statement given to AFP.
BBC News
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