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Following a discrimination settlement, the tech giant lunges toward transparency.
CNET
The child labor activist, who works for Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had launched a pilot program 15 months prior to match a police database containing photos of all of India's missing children with another one comprising shots of all the minors living in the country's child care institutions.
CNN
Invite to November event promises the unveiling of a "reinvented icon."
CNET
Microsoft's independent board directors bumped Nadella's base salary for the most recent fiscal year.
CNBC
Spectrum struggles
The Verge
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff argues that companies have been too focused on shareholders at the expense of employees, customers and the communities they serve.
CNBC
The firms intend to bring cellular connectivity to Microsoft's Internet of Things solution.
ZDNet
The Brussels-based institution believes that part of Broadcom's business could be creating "serious and irreparable harm to competition."
CNBC
The purchase is meant to support Intel's focus on the edge computing market for 5G networks.
ZDNet
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed four pieces of legislation taking a hard line on China, three related to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and one commending Canada in its dispute over the extradition of a Chinese telecom executive.
Reuters
Google helped kickstart people's interest in virtual reality. Now it's giving up.
CNET
After months of leaks, Google just made the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL official.
CNN
Years after resisting pressure to move to China, Lee Hung Lung says his bet has paid off. Sales at his Malaysia-based Hotayi Electronic are surging, it's hiring more workers, considering an expansion, and picking and choosing orders.
Reuters
'Chinese government is putting in place new tools that make it much more difficult for companies to keep their information private,' cybersecurity expert says
South China Morning Post
The emergence of two new wireless standards will cause IT decision-makers to think carefully.
ZDNet
Microsoft president Brad Smith thinks it's time antitrust laws are updated for the digital age.
CNN
The list of OEMs includes vendors from around the world - Arcadyan, Askey, AVM, Casa Systems, Compal, Cradlepoint, Fibocom, FIH, Franklin, Gemtek, Gongjing, Gosuncn, Inseego, LG, Linksys, MeiG, Netgear, Nokia, Oppo, Panasonic, Quanta, Quectel, Sagemcom, Samsung, Sharp Corporation, Sercomm, Sierra Wireless, Sunsea, Technicolor, Telit, Wewins, Wingtech, WNC, and ZTE.
Forbes
The producer price index (PPI), considered a key barometer of corporate profitability, dropped 1.2% year-on-year in September, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data showed on Tuesday.
Reuters
Intel has now officially denied the rumor, stating that it still has plans to bring chips with the 10nm process to the desktop.
Tom's Hardware Guide
China's Huawei Technologies is ready to enter into a "no backdoor" agreement with India to allay security concerns, the telecom group's local head said on Monday, as the giant South Asian country prepares to launch next generation 5G networks.
Reuters
Germany has finalised rules for the build-out of 5G mobile networks that, in a snub to the United States, will not exclude China's Huawei Technologies.
Reuters
A tentative truce between the United States and China has raised hopes - yet again - that the two economic superpowers are inching toward a resolution to the trade war.
CNN
Instead of a pop-up selfie camera, the Z20 uses two screens to get rid of any display notches.
engadget
The world of computer chips just got a wake-up call.
Time
Goldman Sachs sees a 60% chance that the announced 15% tariffs will take effect, but expects a delay until early 2020 as opposed to the current deadline of Dec. 15
CNBC
Just because it's virtual doesn't mean it's exempt.
engadget
As original shows for Apple TV Plus were in development, executives reportedly told some creators to refrain from unflattering portrayals of the country.
CNET
The search giant will soon unveil a flagship smartphone with radar technology, marking a significant milestone for the company.
CNET
Intel announced plans to discontinue its Kaby Lake-G processors, which pair the company's 8th-gen processing cores with long-time rival AMD's discrete Radeon RX Vega M graphics.
Digital Trends
While corporate CIOs see the distributed ledger technology as innovative, blockchain is unlikely to become technically and operationally scalable anytime soon.
Computerworld
The European Union has warned that 5G networks could be left vulnerable to attack from state-backed hackers if operators use too many parts from a single supplier.
CNN
It can capture your outdoor adventures in Full HD.
engadget
Arm Holdings, the semiconductor technology firm owned by Softbank Group, still plans to return to the public markets by 2023, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
Reuters
"Japan is still a problem, but they don't actually need it to make billions of dollars," Takahashi said.
CNBC
Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 is going to launch globally at the end of next year.
BBC News
The United States is less competitive than it was a year ago and the global economy remains hobbled by low productivity despite a decade of cheap money from central banks, the World Economic Forum said Wednesday.
AP
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said "stay tuned," when asked whether China would retaliate for the blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Muslim minorities.
CNBC
You might've given your phone number to Twitter for two-factor authentication. The company said that number could've been used for advertising.
CNET
However, Facebook said that it's working on bringing the feature back.
engadget
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