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TSMC is stepping up its evaluation of whether to build an advanced chip facility in the US in response to pressure from Washington.
Nikkei Asian Review
ASML's main facilities are in the province of Noord-Brabant, which has the highest number of infections in the Netherlands, and so far is country's only region where people have been advised to not attend large-scale public events.
New York Times
Chipmaker Broadcom on Thursday pulled its financial projections for the year, citing uncertainty around the coronavirus pandemic, and said it would push debt payments to the second half of the year or earlier if conditions improve.
Wall Street Journal
Every economic shock leaves a legacy. The deadly coronavirus will be no different.
BBC News
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.
BBC News
Germany is to close its borders with neighbouring countries including France, the latest in a string of tough actions by EU member states to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The Financial Times
Lucian Grainge, chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19. Apple's Tim Cook reportedly was at Grainge's birthday party two weeks ago.
Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs on Sunday downgraded its outlook for the economy in the first two quarters of 2020 as the coronavirus zaps all growth from the U.S.
CNBC
Apple said it will close all of its stores outside of greater China until March 27 to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading.
CNBC
The world's largest social network is teaming up with the United Nations Foundation.
CNET
Apple is shifting its annual Worldwide Developers Conference to an online format because of the coronavirus outbreak, it announced Friday.
CNN
It says Netflix violates patents, but competition may be the real issue.
engadget
Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million face masks to the United States.
CNN
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Microsoft said Thursday that its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, set to run from May 19-21, will be held online instead of in person, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email. The change was made as the coronavirus continues to spread around the U.S.
CNBC
It's going to be an interesting year in gaming...
Tech Radar
Broadcom withdrew its revenue forecast for 2020 on Thursday, joining a host of chipmakers that have either cut or pulled their sales outlook due to demand and supply disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Apple is reopening all 42 of its branded stores in China on Friday, a company spokesman said, more than a month after they were shut in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
France will authorize the use of some of Huawei's equipment in the rollout of its 5G network, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, despite U.S. calls to exclude the Chinese telecoms giant from the West's next-generation communications.
Reuters
President Donald Trump signed legislation on Thursday to bar telecom carriers from using U.S. subsidies to purchase network equipment from Huawei, ZTE and other companies deemed a national security threat.
Reuters
The maker of budget-friendly phones intends to keep up when it comes to network speeds.
CNET
Asian chipmakers and other high-tech manufacturers face a nearly $11 billion hit to profits in fiscal 2020 as the novel coronavirus outbreak saps both demand and their supply chains in China, according to research by Goldman Sachs.
Nikkei Asian Review
US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus: all travel from Europe will be suspended for 30 days.
BBC News
CES Asia 2020 is among the latest major tech conferences to be axed after organizers pulled the plug on Mobile World Congress, SXSW and many more.
CNET
After infecting over 121,000 and causing more than 4,300 deaths, the World Health Organization declares the outbreak a pandemic.
CNET
IBM is commercializing a new technology that makes it easier for computers to understand human communication.
CNN
Whatever you touch with your hands - food, bacteria, dust - can be transferred to your cell phone, making it a mobile petri dish possibly teeming with germs. So there's a growing discussion about how to keep phones sanitized as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread worldwide.
CNN
The European Commission said on Wednesday it will introduce new waste reduction targets and sustainability laws to ensure that products placed on the EU market are recyclable, repairable and designed to last longer, its latest plan to halve waste by 2030.
Reuters
A more traditional TV streaming experience than Chromecast
The Verge
A new Apple patent envisions bringing together two or more devices to act as one large, seamless display through sensor technology.
Digital Trends
Intel on Tuesday said EU antitrust regulators got it wrong when they fined the chipmaker 1.06 billion euros ($1.2 billion) more than a decade ago for thwarting a British rival in a case that could affect Google and Qualcomm.
Reuters
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was extending a license allowing U.S. companies to continue doing business with China's Huawei Technologies until May 15.
Reuters
Europe's privacy rulebook does not create obstacles to taking action to curb the coronavirus epidemic but mass tracking of people's movements and contacts using smartphone location data would represent a clear violation.
Reuters
Xiaomi's 5G promise in 2020 starts with the Mi 10 series. Starting at approximately $570, you get a Snapdragon 865 chipset, 90Hz refresh rate, and a 108-megapixel main camera.
CNET
A new iOS 14 leak offers details on the iPhone 9, a new iPad Pro with a triple-lens camera and updates to the Apple TV.
CNET
The app could guide users through workouts and activities, a report says.
CNET
Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak sparked the decision to hold the P40 launch as a virtual event.
CNET
Is coronavirus delaying the release date of Intel's 10th Gen desktop CPUs?
Tom's Hardware Guide
It could warn you of the potential for heart attacks in some cases.
engadget
The Australian privacy regulator filed a lawsuit against Facebook accusing the social media giant of sharing the personal details of more than 300,000 people to market researcher Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge.
Reuters
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