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Analog Devices forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaker braced for a $70 million hit related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Anglo-German chip designer Dialog Semiconductor is buying California-based Adesto Technologies for $500 million to diversify further away from its reliance Apple, it said on Thursday.
Reuters
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China on U.S. economic growth will be negligible and short-lived, according to economists in a Reuters poll who nonetheless now say risks to their forecasts are skewed more to the downside.
Reuters
The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.
ZDNet
Though the coronavirus had just taken hold when the Federal Reserve met in January, officials already expressed concern about its potential economic impacts.
CNBC
State-of-the-art microscopy has enabled researchers to study a viral protein that could be used in vaccine development.
CNET
Horse Ridge will allow for more (and more capable) qubits.
engadget
Sound creepy? It may actually make your Face ID-type sensor more secure and accurate. The company behind this expects to see the tech in phones by 2021.
CNET
Samsung Electronics stands to be a major beneficiary of the China production problems announced by rival Apple Inc on Monday, reaping the rewards of a decade-long bet on low-cost smartphone manufacturing in Vietnam.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics's semiconductor manufacturing division has won a contract to make new Qualcomm 5G chips using its most advanced chip-making technology, two sources familiar with the matter said, boosting the Korean firm's efforts to gain market share against rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
Reuters
Dell said on Tuesday it would sell its cybersecurity unit RSA for $2.08 billion to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and AlpInvest Partners.
Reuters
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday rejected Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's constitutional challenge to a U.S. law that restricted its ability to do business with federal agencies and their contractors.
Reuters
Foldable phones are once again facing questions about their durability.
BBC News
Gold rose and global equity markets slid on Tuesday after Apple said it was unlikely to meet its sales guidance because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, a warning highlighting the epidemic's threat to global growth and corporate profits.
Reuters
HSBC on Tuesday said it would cut around 35,000 jobs and dramatically overhaul its business after its profit plunged by a third in 2019.
CNN
The mid-range phones will be launched in the second quarter of 2020.
CNET
Exclusive: TCL is making a phone with an extendable screen that you can turn into a tablet. A working prototype was to debut next week, before concern for the coronavirus resulted in a canceled trade show.
CNET
Bezos Earth Fund will fund efforts to protect the planet from effects of climate change.
CNET
Nintendo is likely to struggle to supply sufficient Switch consoles to its US and European markets as soon as April due to a production bottleneck caused by the coronavirus outbreak, according to people with knowledge of the company's supply chain.
Bloomberg
Almost 60% of the firms expect demand to be lower than normal over the next few months, nearly half said their global supply chain had already been affected by the business shutdown, and about a third of them will consider moving operations out of the country if this continues.
Bloomberg
Singapore has reported one of the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases outside China.
CNBC
Japan's recession risks grow as economy skids in fourth quarter, virus clouds outlook (Feb 17, 2020)
Japan's economy shrank at the fastest pace in almost six years in the December quarter as last year's sales tax hike hit consumer and business spending, highlighting a fragile outlook made worse by growing coronavirus risks.
Reuters
The Trump administration will not change its intelligence sharing policy with the United Kingdom despite contentious disagreements over the UK's recent decision to rely on China's Huawei to help build its next generation of super-fast wireless networks, senior administration officials said Friday.
CNN
The U.S. government's antitrust victory over chip supplier Qualcomm drew tough questions for the Federal Trade Commision from a panel of three appellate judges in San Francisco on Thursday.
Reuters
In a year where the 5G radio will be the new iPhone's spotlight feature, Apple has decided to design the phone's antenna itself.
Fast Company
Alibaba had a great quarter to close out 2019, with strong gains in revenue and earnings that topped analysts' forecasts.
CNN
The temporary general license allowing American companies to do business with Huawei has been extended again.
CNET
Samsung Electronics said on Friday that board chairman Lee Sang-hoon, who was sentenced to jail in December for sabotaging union activities, had offered to resign, without elaborating on a reason.
Reuters
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused Huawei of stealing trade secrets and helping Iran track protesters in its latest indictment against the Chinese company, escalating the U.S. battle with the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker.
Reuters
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a lawsuit filed by Amazon.
CNBC
Broadcom on Thursday released a new chip aimed at eliminating choppy phone calls and music on Bluetooth headphones.
Reuters
The US has expanded its lawsuit against Huawei, accusing the Chinese telecoms giant of a "decades-long" plan to steal technology from US firms. Prosecutors said Huawei had violated the terms of partnerships with US companies and stolen trade secrets such as source code and robot technology.
BBC News
Some 242 people died from the new coronavirus in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday - the deadliest day since the outbreak began. There was also a huge increase in the number of cases, with 14,840 people diagnosed with the virus.
BBC News
The crowd is now buying on the news of the coronavirus slowing, even though the stock market is higher now than when the coronavirus first emerged.
MarketWatch
Spanish media is reporting that trade body the GSMA, which organises MWC, will meet to decide whether to cancel the event entirely on Friday.
BBC News
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.
Reuters
Talk of the risk of the world's two major powers "decoupling" surfaced as their trade battle, which began in 2018, heated up - leading to billions of dollars of tariffs imposed on each other's goods.
CNBC
At its annual February announcement, the company revealed its flagship Galaxy S20 phones featuring a new super large model, the Z Flip foldable and Galaxy Buds Plus.
CNET
US hasn't made evidence public but reportedly shared it with UK and Germany.
Ars Technica
China's Hubei province on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January, lending credence to a prediction from the country's senior medical adviser that the outbreak could be over by April.
Reuters
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