Japan's Tokyo Electron, the world's No.3 supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, will not supply to Chinese clients blacklisted by Washington, a senior company executive told Reuters.

Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes, a copy of the bloc's draft communique obtained by Reuters showed.

Some of the world's biggest tech companies have told their employees to stop talking about technology and technical standards with counterparts at Huawei Technologies.

Project Scarlett arrives in fall 2020

The White House Office of Management and Budget has asked the U.S. Congress for more time to phase in a ban on federal contracts with companies that do business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, part of a defense law passed last year.

Carrie Lam's government could squander Hong Kong's privileged position in the eyes of foreign governments. A bill that would allow extradition to the mainland prompted hundreds of thousands to protest on Sunday. If the chief executive ignores the message, Washington, Brussels and others may reconsider their relationship with the territory. That would hurt both Hong Kong and China.

The UK and South Korea have signed in principle a free trade agreement (FTA) that seeks to maintain existing trade arrangements post-Brexit.

International Business Machines is cutting about 2,000 jobs in a round of layoffs this week, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the technology giant works to reshape its business.

Microsoft has deleted a massive database of 10 million images which was being used to train facial recognition systems, the Financial Times reports. The database was released in 2016 and was built of online images of 100,000 well-known people.

They're in a no-win situation.

China is creating a system to protect its technology, according to state media.

Facebook has been working on its own cryptocurrency for quite a while now, and it looks like the company is seeking to unveil its product as soon as its month.

Facebook is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones.

The new Nokia 3.1 A and Nokia 3.1 C arrive on AT&T and Cricket

As memory semiconductor prices decline and the uncertainty of the semiconductor industry grows due to the U.S.-China trade dispute, 3D memory attracts attention as a future technology.

China granted 5G licenses to the country's three major telecom operators and China Broadcasting Network on Thursday, giving the go-ahead for full commercial deployment of the next-generation cellular network technology.

Sony promises its upcoming console, often referred to by fans as the PS5, will share saved games, have backward compatibility and more.

Co-founder Mike Olson is also leaving.

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday reported that its contacts at companies across the country were worried that international trade tensions could weigh on business even as economic activity picked up.

Security and the complexity of change are the key barriers to full benefits, according to new report.

"We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with countries," Huawei Chairman Liang Hua told reporters in Shenzhen.

Apple's CEO also says he's kept a close relationship with the White House.

AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed to Tom's Hardware at Computex 2019 that the company isn't licensing further chip designs to its China-backed joint venture.

The U.S. Justice Department has jurisdiction for a potential probe of Apple as part of a broader review of whether technology giants are using their size to act in an anti-competitive manner, two sources told Reuters.

Apple has announced that iTunes is to be replaced by Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV.

With 42 commercial 5G orders, Nokia has edged ahead of Huawei and Ericsson, Nokia director Federico Guillen said.

8K OLED TVs officially become a thing this week as LG starts taking orders in South Korea.

SEMI membership will give Audi access to SEMI core competencies in developing international standards and harmonizing technology roadmaps and enable the automaker to leverage the global SEMI platform to promote industry alignment across supply-chain segments.

Factory activity contracted in most Asian countries last month as an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing raised fears of a global economic downturn and heaped pressure on policymakers in the region and beyond to roll out more stimulus.

Huawei plans to sell its undersea telecom cable business, showed a buyer's filing on Monday, in its first major asset sale since the United States ratcheted up accusations of the Chinese firm being a vehicle for espionage.

'Too early to say whether we are able to achieve the goal' of becoming No 1 by 2020, Zhao said

In a surprise announcement that could compromise a major trade deal, Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is slapping a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports to pressure the country to do more to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants trying to cross the border.

The tech standards organizations cut ties with the Chinese phone maker last week.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp, along with dozens of other companies and civil liberties groups, have joined forces to condemn UK spy agency GCHQ for plans to eavesdrop on encrypted messages.

A chip industry peer might see strategic value in Cypress' Wi-Fi and microcontroller assets, and be willing to brave an uncertain trade and regulatory environment to make a bid.

Most enterprises now use two or more cloud service providers, and 35% use up to five monitoring tools to keep tabs on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. What's the best approach to full network visibility?

Though they all agree laptops will continue to be important

The iPhone maker was just awarded a patent for a Foldable cover and display for an electronic device (US Patent No. 10,303,218).

The company has faced complaints from companies like Spotify and politicians such as Elizabeth Warren about alleged anticompetitive practices in the App Store.

As Beijing threatens the United States with the possibility of a rare earths export ban amid rising trade tensions, Chinese state media has sent an ominously worded warning to Washington: "Don't say we didn't warn you."