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Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal that may create a legal precedent for other large tech companies present in the country.
Reuters
US President Donald Trump will delay a planned tariff hike on $250bn of Chinese goods as a "gesture of good will".
BBC News
To some, the trade war is a "lose-lose" situation.
Forbes
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly launched an investigation to determine whether Amazon controls an inappropriately large share of the retail market.
The Hill
Hong Kong has just made a surprise 瞿30 billion ($37 billion) takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.
CNN
The giant elephant in the room at Apple's iPhone launch event on Tuesday starts with a 5 and ends with a G.
CNN
Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency suffered another setback on Wednesday when Switzerland said the proposed payments system could face strict rules that typically apply to banks, on top of tough anti-money laundering laws.
Reuters
The competition will feature 'Street Fighter V' and 'Rocket League'.
engadget
China is expected to buy more agricultural products in hope for a better trade deal with the United States.
Reuters
China's search engine giant Baidu said on Tuesday it will invest 1.44 billion yuan ($202 million) in artificial intelligence firm Neusoft Holdings.
Reuters
"At no time did we find any evidence of forced labour and we can confirm that this facility currently has no interns working overtime," it said in a statement given to AFP.
BBC News
The U.S. economy has been buoyed more by emerging market growth than domestic policies, according to Oxford University professor Ian Goldin.
CNBC
Nissan Motor CEO Hiroto Saikawa is stepping down after an internal investigation revealed falsified documents that boosted his compensation in 2013.
CNBC
After its recent foray into fulfillment services, the company makes a big acquisition.
Motley Fool
Jack Ma steps down as the chairman of Alibaba's board on September 10.
CNBC
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees have pledged to walk out in protest of what they say is their company's inaction on climate change.
CNN
Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn on Monday rebutted allegations of lapses in people management leveled by a non-profit monitor of worker rights, though confirmed they employed too many temporary workers.
Reuters
Two of China's big three state telecom companies, China Telecom and China Unicom, are working together to build a 5G mobile network in a cost-cutting venture that could crimp orders for vendors such as Huawei Technologies.
Reuters
Australian government officials advised India to ban Chinese technology maker Huawei from supplying parts for a rollout of a high-speed telecommunications network, Australian newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Reuters
The two companies signed an MOU to jointly develop and commercialize the world's first ever 5G-8K TV
Company release
Microsoft's most powerful executive has said US President Donald Trump's treatment of China's telecoms giant Huawei is unfair and un-American.
Yahoo! Finance
State attorneys general are opening the latest inquiries into the companies' practices as government scrutiny grows
The Guardian
Everyone has learned lessons from Samsung's experience.
engadget
From Portugal to Paris to Poland electric scooters have invaded Europe, but it's far from a smooth ride.
CNET
But many CEOs tell IBM they don't have the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by emerging technologies.
CNET
VATek is on track to introduce its first 4K broadcast solution, based on its latest modulator chips for entry level UHD TV headend applications in 2020.
Company release
The Nokia 2720 Flip comes with 4G and modern apps like Google Assistant, YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp.
CNBC
Asian markets kept climbing Friday on optimism about the future of the US-China trade relationship.
CNN
Company previously replaced fingerprint sensing with Face ID
Bloomberg
The unsecured server exposes phone numbers that can be matched with Facebook accounts.
CNET
Alibaba said Friday it will acquire a cross-border e-commerce business unit, Kaola, from the Nasdaq-listed Chinese internet company NetEase for about $2 billion.
CNBC
An exclusive deal with SK Telecom in South Korea
The Verge
Intel's Core i9-9900KS, which the company says will hit 5.0 GHz on all-cores, is going to be released in October.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The government has said a bill to stop a no-deal Brexit will complete its passage through the Lords on Friday.
BBC News
The new Razer Blade Stealth 13 makes computing history by fitting the powerful NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics processor into an ultra-portable design.
Company release
Corning will launch a new specialty optical fiber and showcase a wide range of its Advanced Optics portfolio at the 2019 China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE).
Company release
There are 20 new Fire TV products coming in total, including a sound bar and new Fire TV Cube.
CNET
Apple is looking to raise $7 billion through a sale of bonds set to price later on Wednesday, IFR reported, the company's first such issue since November 2017.
Reuters
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