China is set to release a new plan this year called "China Standards 2035" with the aim of influencing how the next-generation of technologies, from telecommunications to artificial intelligence, will work.

It shows China's eagerness to defend its technological crown jewel.

AT&T executive John Stankey will take over from Randall Stephenson on July 1.

Apple and Google on Friday updated technical details of the coronavirus contact tracing system they plan to release next month, saying new features would strengthen privacy protections and give health authorities more detailed data.

Facebook has a long history of expanding its features to emulate major competitors. Now it's taking on platform-of-the-moment Zoom (ZM).

It may go where OnePlus and others have gone before.

AMD announced the newest additions to the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processor family, the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and AMD Ryzen 3 3300X processors and AMD B550 Chipset for Socket AM4 designed for 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processors with over 60 designs in development.

6GHz Wi-Fi is coming soon

The company's Eeyo sub-brand will also come to Europe and Taiwan in the summer.

The news comes a week after CEO Sundar Pichai told employees the company is slowing down hiring.

Facebook (FB) is spending billions of dollars for a stake in India's largest mobile operator, and teaming up with the country's richest man to tap into an internet boom.

Xilinx on Wednesday forecast first-quarter revenue below estimates and refrained from providing an annual outlook, citing the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

TSMC will build the new Mac chips.

It costs the same as the Galaxy S20, is about the same size as Galaxy S20 Plus and has the same battery and main camera as the Galaxy S20 Ultra.

A Samsung 600MP camera is in the works

Semiconductor company STMicroelectronics NV (STM) on Wednesday reported a 7.9 percent growth in its profit for the first quarter, as revenues rose 7.5 percent, led by higher sales of Imaging products, and Analog and Micro-controllers.

Netflix reported its Q1 2020 earnings after the bell on Tuesday.

Texas Instruments on Tuesday reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter but forecast current-quarter revenue and profit largely below Wall Street estimates, as the chip industry braces for a big hit from the coronavirus outbreak.

One analyst expects iPhone sales to fall 36 percent in the current quarter.

The electronics trade show will proceed, but not in the same way it has in the past, organizers said in a vague series of tweets.

Huawei's revenues came in at 182.2 billion yuan in the first quarter, up just 1.4% from the previous year.

It's aiming for output of 22 million units this fiscal year

Amid COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns, companies all around the world are facing supply chain-related issues. However, Samsung employees are being given special permission to visit Vietnam.

US stocks were shaken deeply into the red Monday after oil traders desperate to unload near-term contracts for their vital commodity sold at a loss.

Start-ups across Britain have been crying out for more financial support after rivals in France and Germany were given access to funds.

Krishna spoke about the importance of growth and a determination to keep making acquisitions.

Japanese mobile carriers NTT Docomo and SoftBank said they will delay their launches of Apple's new iPhone SE model until May 11 instead of the scheduled April 27 amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The April 23 decision could open up 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for next-gen Wi-Fi devices.

The Chinese-backed owners of Imagination Technologies told the British government on Friday the chip designer would remain headquartered in the United Kingdom and they would consult over any board changes.

The South Korean electronics sector is continuing to push through its original plans of business investment and expansion for 2020 despite the uncertainty cast by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alibaba said it will invest 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) in its cloud infrastructure over three years - a plan that follows a boom in demand for business software as the coronavirus outbreak peaked in China.

Nearly 60 million jobs across the European Union and the United Kingdom are at risk from the coronavirus pandemic, according to McKinsey.

The goal is for the card to be the foundation of Google Pay, the search giant's mobile payment service.

Apple Music head Oliver Schusser will be taking the top post at Beats, replacing Luke Wood, who's leaving the company on April 30.

U.S. chip supplier Nvidia said on Thursday Chinese authorities had approved its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli chip designer Mellanox Technologies Ltd, overcoming the last obstacle for the deal announced over a year earlier.

This marks Foxconn's latest semiconductor project in China after other chip-related development initiatives in Nanjing, Jinan and Zhuhai. The Qingdao semiconductor packaging and testing plant will focus on chips used on 5G and AI-based hardware products.

Covid-19 supply-chain disruptions are restricting operations

Verizon is buying the video conferencing platform BlueJeans as workers increasingly rely on web tools to connect during the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Thursday.

A nationwide state of emergency has been declared in Japan due to the country's worsening coronavirus outbreak.