U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok.

Facebook on Friday took a shot at Apple, saying the company will only be able to pay small businesses a portion of sales from a new paid online events feature because of the iOS App Store's policies.

Huawei recently became the world's biggest smartphone maker, beating Samsung and Apple at their own game by offering consumers state of the art phones with amazing cameras at competitive prices.

Applied Materials forecast fourth-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates on Thursday as demand rebounds for semiconductor equipment and services from the coronavirus-driven slump, and predicted sustained spending into 2021.

Micron Technology said the outlook for demand is worsening and predicted it's unlikely to meet its revenue forecast for the fiscal first quarter. Shares dropped about 5% on the comments.

Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, smashed expectations with a 31% leap in first-quarter net profit, as the coronavirus pandemic spurs businesses to shift to remote work and schools to switch to online learning.

Intel on Thursday disclosed a new method for making transistors on semiconductors that its chief architect said could boost the performance Intel's next round of processors by as much as 20%.

Intel showed us something new at Architecture Day 2020: confidence.

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries is in early talks with ByteDance about an investment in TikTok's India business, according to a TechCrunch report.

President Trump's executive order last week banning TikTok if it doesn't find a buyer by next month potentially threatened to upend a vibrant social network and the broader social media marketplace.

The 20.4% second-quarter plunge follows a 2.2% contraction in the first quarter.

The use of automatic facial recognition technology by South Wales Police was unlawful, according to the Court of Appeal.

The Trump administration has filed a motion asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit against the president's executive order targeting social media companies, calling it a "profound misunderstanding," according to a copy of the motion seen by Reuters.

Cisco called for the fourth consecutive revenue decline in its quarterly guidance.

Microsoft is counting on users seeing the Duo as filling an untapped niche. But for people used to thinking about carrying no more than two devices - usually a PC/tablet or phone - where does the Duo fit?

HMD Global, the maker of Nokia-branded smartphones, has secured $230 million of investment from partners including Google, Qualcomm and Nokia Technologies, to help accelerate its development of 5G devices.

SiFive, a California startup working to commercialize an open-source semiconductor technology, said on Tuesday that it has raised an additional $60 million in funding from investors including SK Hynix and Saudi Aramco.

Users say they would rather give up their iPhones than the 'crucial' app

Apple CEO Tim Cook has become a billionaire as he nears a decade at the helm of the world's most valuable company.

The SoftBank Vision Fund, which reported an $18 billion loss last year, recorded an investment gain of $2.8 billion for this quarter.

Looks like the FTC lost

Tesla announced a five-for-one stock split on Tuesday evening.

Top U.S. tech firms including Amazon.com and Facebook filed a legal brief on Monday backing a challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary ban on the entry of certain foreign workers to preserve jobs for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

Including 'berry blue' and 'red camouflage'

New Ampere GPUs might be on the way

Chinese electric car start-up Xpeng Motors has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange.

Singapore's economy contracted by 42.9% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the previous quarter - sending the Southeast Asian country into a technical recession, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said.

Twitter has approached TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts raised doubts over Twitter's ability to put together financing for a potential deal.

Big performance, low power

The company sold its remaining shares of its PC business to Sharp

Microsoft has confirmed that its new game streaming service, xCloud, will not appear on Apple devices.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants a "clean" internet.

There's no word on when Google and phone makers will incorporate fix from Qualcomm.

It says foreign rivals will claim an edge if the US doesn't change course.

Huawei Technologies will stop making its flagship Kirin chipsets next month, financial magazine Caixin said on Saturday, as the impact of U.S. pressure on the Chinese tech giant grows.

Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, SDKs, chip designs, and more.

Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest Galaxy Note smartphone and new version of its foldable phone, the Z Fold 2, on Wednesday, hoping to regain ground against rivals Huawei and Apple as the smartphone market begins to recover from its COVID-19 slump.

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued executive orders that would ban the social media app TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if they are not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies.

Apple's unified ecosystem is piling on the pressure

"Exconfidential Lake" leak includes docs Intel provided under NDA as recently as May.