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Facebook on Wednesday evening published a blog post explaining why it allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete private user messages, as was reported by the New York Times on Tuesday.
CNBC
The TVs will be on display at CES 2019.
engadget
China probably has become the world's biggest economy and will reap the benefits that once flowed to the U.S.
Bloomberg
LG has been teasing its flexible OLED technology for 10 years.
Digital Trends
Twenty-nine companies and research bodies will take part in the project, among them Robert Bosch, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Osram, Carl Zeiss, GlobalFoundries and Murata.
Reuters
Arm debuts Cortex-A65AE, a 7-nanometer chip for 'next-generation' driving experiences (Dec 18, 2018)
The next generation of automotive processor has finally arrived, says Arm.
Venturebeat
The M16 production line, located in Icheon, 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will be built on a 53,000-square meter lot.
Korea Herald
The mobile phone unit of Japanese tech giant Softbank has had a disappointing debut on the Tokyo stock market, with shares falling 14.5%. The firm raised as much as JPY2.6 trillion by selling shares at JPY1,500 each in one of the world's largest ever stock offerings.
BBC News
This sounds like good news for shareholders.
Motley Fool
Apple said it would update the software of iPhones in China to try to resolve a legal dispute that threatens to stop the company from selling older iPhones in the country.
The New York Times
The lead attorney for the group of Apple device assemblers seeking at least $9 billion in damages from Qualcomm
Reuters
A woman from California is suing Apple because she claims it wasn't clear the iPhone XS had a screen notch when she bought it.
Tech Radar
Supermicro has sent a letter to its customers saying that it has found no evidence of malicious chips on its motherboards. The company asked third-party company Nardello & Co. to audit Supermicro's hardware.
TechCrunch
Jaguar Land Rover will announce plans to cut thousands of jobs early in the new year, as part of a 瞿2.5bn turnround plan to revive the fortunes of Britain's largest carmaker.
The Financial Times
For some time, Apple has been serious about building more wireless components for its own devices, putting its own Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips into the latest Apple Watches and AirPod earbuds.
The Information
Apple, facing a court ban in China on some of its iPhone models over alleged infringement of Qualcomm patents, said on Friday it will push software updates to users in a bid to resolve potential issues.
Reuters
Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities, the most widely followed Apple analyst on Wall Street whose calls typically move the stock, says demand for iPhones is falling way short.
CNBC
The new module is tailored for the production of autonomous devices like drones and robots.
ZDNet
Almost half (48.6%) of US chief financial officers believe the United States will be in recession by the end of next year.
CNN
Apple has announced plans to build a new campus in Austin, Texas, saying the project will involve a $1bn investment.
BBC News
Samsung Electronics will cease operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China, the company said, as its sales in the world's biggest smartphone market slumps amid rising competition from lower-cost local rivals.
Reuters
Amazon does not plan to sell this chip directly to customers, but the decision by one of the world's biggest buyers of computer processors to go the do-it-yourself route is likely to have a major impact on Intel, the iconic Silicon Valley chip maker.
New York Times
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of confidence in her leadership on Wednesday. She said a new prime minister would have to scrap or extend Article 50, the mechanism taking Britain out of the EU on 29 March, "delaying or even stopping Brexit".
BBC News
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has downgraded executive cars and cut business travel in a belt-tightening campaign meant to prepare for a difficult 2019.
Nikkei Asian Review
On Tuesday, a Chinese court banned the sale of older iPhone models as part of a long-running patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Qualcomm.
BBC News
China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom have been granted 5G radio frequency spectrum allocations to pursue trials in the next-generation mobile system ahead of its wide roll-out from 2020
South China Morning Post
Qualcomm announced that the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court in China has granted the company's request for two preliminary injunctions against four Chinese subsidiaries of Apple, ordering them to immediately cease infringing upon two Qualcomm patents through the unlicensed importation, sale and offers for sale in China of the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X.
Company release
The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members.
BBC News
Twitter's chief executive has been criticized for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country.
BBC News
A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs to CRN after The Information first reported on the job cuts Friday. But the spokesperson disputed that the layoffs only impacted Qualcomm's data center unit and said they were across "a number of divisions."
CRN
Broadcom reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter financial results on Thursday. Shares of the chipmaker soared 6% in after-hours trade after beating on both the top and bottom lines.
Yahoo! Finance
The iPhone assembler said earlier this year that the Sino-US trade spat was the biggest challenge it is facing, and its high-level managers were making plans to counter the impact
South China Morning Post
SK Group on Thursday appointed Lee Seok-hee as the CEO of SK hynix in its annual reshuffle, alongside new leaders named for SK Gas, SK Engineering & Construction and SK Global Chemical.
Korea Herald
Alibaba said on Wednesday it has signed an agreement with the Belgium government to launch an e-commerce trade hub, which will include investments in logistics infrastructure.
Reuters
Yandex, the internet titan often referred to as the "Google of Russia," has launched its first smartphone.
Venturebeat
Japan plans to ban government purchases of equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp to beef up its defenses against intelligence leaks and cyber attacks.
Reuters
The market sell-off triggered by fears that the US-China trade truce could unravel has created fresh uncertainty for companies on the hunt for acquisitions, threatening a five-year global takeover wave, dealmakers say.
The Financial Times
UK telecoms group BT (BT) confirmed on Wednesday that it would not buy equipment from the Chinese tech company for the core of its next generation wireless network. The company also said it would remove existing Huawei technology from the heart of its 4G network within two years.
CNN
Google's self-driving car project has announced a driverless commercial taxi service.
The Telegraph
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