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Apps improperly obtained user data, installed malware, and committed other offenses.
Ars Technica
China needs to develop a better system for financing small businesses that drive innovation in the economy but currently struggle to access the funds they need for growth, a leading Chinese think-tank said in a report published Sunday.
Reuters
Beijing hopes its social credit system will use vast troves of data to quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit, too.
New York Times
Thousands of people protested in the Swiss capital Bern Saturday over the roll-out of a 5G wireless technology across the country, which they fear could damage people's health.
Yahoo!News
It won't be in much of a rush to bring more production stateside.
engadget
Microsoft's president has called on the US to end a ban on it supplying Huawei with Windows software for the Chinese company's computers.
BBC News
AMD previously told us that it's long-awaited Ryzen 9 3950X, a 16-core 32-thread behemoth destined for the mainstream desktop, would arrive in September 2019, but today the company announced it is delaying the release until November.
Tom's Hardware Guide
"We are combining breakthrough speeds and capacities with revolutionary software solutions as we accelerate expansion in the premium SSD market," said Kye Hyun Kyung, executive vice president of Memory Solution Product & Development at Samsung Electronics. "We plan to introduce additional innovation led by our most advanced (sixth-generation) V-NAND in helping to trigger a lot more growth in the global IT market."
Company release
The OECD projects the world economy will grow just 2.9% in 2019, which would be the lowest forecast since 2009.
CNN
Employees from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are staged to strike over climate on Friday
The Verge
A series of changes have occurred in Intel's upper management.
Tom's Hardware Guide
IBM announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State.
Company release
A group formed to respond quickly to hacks and other cyber threats has temporarily expelled the Chinese company after legal advice
Wall Street Journal
Huawei launched its new Mate 30 flagship smartphones Thursday in Munich.
CNBC
"I believe that if Steve were still alive, we would have combined our companies," Disney CEO Bob Iger wrote. "Or at least discussed the possibility very seriously."
CNET
Apple's new iPhones will use recycled rare earth elements in a key component, the company said on Wednesday.
Reuters
Facebook is hoping a partnership with Luxottica will result in the glasses reaching consumers by 2023, 2024 or as late as 2025.
CNBC
Chip stocks brush off trade war and rally to near record highs as investors bet on 5G (Sep 18, 2019)
Semiconductor stocks experienced a sector sell-off at the end of 2018 but rebounded in 2019.
CNBC
Huawei expects the roll-out of next-generation 5G wireless networks to start contributing to the firm's revenue from next year when China launches services, the company's deputy chairman said on Wednesday.
Reuters
He argues that it just creates more companies that behave badly.
engadget
HP's under one-kilogram premium PC achieves breakthrough power in "lighter than air" design for those on the go. Unveils gorgeous premium curved displays and accessories for home and office.
Company release
Credit rating agency Moody's changed its outlook on Hong Kong's rating to negative from stable on Monday, reflecting what it called the rising risk of "an erosion in the strength of Hong Kong's institutions" amid the city's ongoing protests.
Reuters
I'm standing inside Samsung Digital City, where some 35,000 employees work, eat, play, and work some more in Suwon, South Korea.
CNN
Billed as the world's first autonomous operating system, Oracle Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.
ZDNet
Oracle and VMware on Monday announced a deal designed to resolve years of tension over how Oracle handles technical support for VMware users and make it easier for them to move to Oracle's cloud computing service.
Reuters
Sony said on Tuesday it was rejecting a call by Daniel Loeb's activist hedge fund Third Point to spin-off its chips business, saying that the business is "a crucial growth driver" for the Japanese company.
Reuters
Its taking on OnePlus in India in partnership with e-commerce site FlipKart.
engadget
We'll see the Pixel 4 and probably a bunch of other Google hardware.
Ars Technica
Pre-orders for Apple's latest iPhones have gotten off to a better start than the last cycle a year ago, several Wall Street analysts said on Monday, citing their own research data.
Reuters
Four phones with three different notches
The Verge
CIOs have to continue to educate execs and senior leaders about blockchain opportunities and challenges and continue to develop proofs of concept to test its business worthiness, the research firm says.
Computerworld
Two U.S. senators on Monday asked the FCC and national security agencies to review whether two Chinese state-owned telecom companies should be allowed to operate in the United States, at a time of heightened concern about possible Chinese spying.
Reuters
Apple will launch a legal challenge on Tuesday to a European Commission order to pay 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in Irish back taxes in a landmark case in the EU's crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational companies.
Reuters
Even last year's A12 Bionic-powered iPhones were comparable to notebooks in terms of performance and the A13 Bionic has now improved on that on all fronts.
WCCF Tech
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that he will delay increasing tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15 as "a gesture of good will."
CNBC
Huawei Technologies' device business, comprising mainly smartphones, made a 11 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) profit in the first half of this year - as much as it earned in all of 2018 - a rare regulatory filing showed.
Reuters
Facebook announced big plans to revolutionize payments in Europe with the launch of a virtual currency. But EU finance ministers see libra as a risk to monetary stability.
Deutsche Welle
Apple spent more time talking about the iPhone's camera than new services or iPads at its launch event this week.
CNBC
Broadcom said on Thursday demand for microchips had hit a bottom and would remain at current levels, a sign that an industry downturn may linger, and added that there was no clear indication as to when the recovery would take place.
Reuters
Apple apparently isn't settling on just Face ID and Touch ID for biometric identification, and is continuing work on identifying a palm placed on a device to authenticate a user.
Apple Insider
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