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Organisers say volunteers are running hundreds of Telegram groups that are powering Hong Kong's protest turned civil disobedience campaign. They claim that more than two million people have taken to the streets in recent weeks to express opposition to a controversial extradition law.
BBC News
The US company aims to purchase all of the former Hitachi group member from American private equity group KKR by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
Nikkei Asian Review
Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of Huawei Technologies whose daughter's arrest in Vancouver triggered a diplomatic crisis between China and Canada, said the company still wants to make the country its "global center for theoretical research."
Bloomberg
Trump said Saturday that "US companies can sell their equipment to Huawei," as long as the transactions won't present a "great, national emergency problem."
CNN
The Wall Street Journal has reported that AMD's 2016 joint venture known as Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment, or THATIC, allowed a company with ties to the Chinese military to obtain chip technology that could boost China's supercomputer efforts.
Fortune
One of Huawei's biggest rivals - Nokia - has said the UK should be wary of using the Chinese firm's equipment. The Finnish company said Huawei's telecoms kit had vulnerabilities that meant it posed a risk to 5G networks.
BBC News
America's trade war with China is once again poised to switch off the nation's last television factory.
Reuters
Israeli startup NeuroBlade said on Wednesday it has completed a $23 million early funding round, led by Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, with the participation of new investor Intel Capital.
Reuters
Jony Ive, a close creative collaborator with Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs whose iPhone and other designs fueled Apple's rise to become a $1 trillion company, will leave later this year to form an independent design company.
Reuters
The 120W Super FlashCharge tech is easily a highlight of MWC 2019 Shanghai, as it could help set new battery charging standards for mobile devices.
BGR
The benchmarks are designed to promote best practice and boost innovation.
engadget
A U.S. jury on Wednesday cleared California semiconductor designer CNEX Labs of stealing trade secrets from Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies while awarding CNEX no damages on its own trade theft claims.
Reuters
The US and China have tentatively agreed to another truce in their trade war in order to resume talks aimed at resolving the dispute, sources familiar with the situation said.
South China Morning Post
Bitcoin's price has almost quadrupled in the last six months.
Ars Technica
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday the outlook for the U.S. economy has become cloudier since early May, with rising uncertainties over trade and global growth causing the central bank to reassess its next move on interest rates.
AP
Mike Filippo joined Apple last month with the title Architect, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Ars Technica
"She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.
Reuters
Tesla is developing the means to manufacture its own battery cells, current and recent employees told CNBC.
CNBC
Researchers find thousands of exploitable vulnerabilities; findings bolster Trump administration's stance
MarketWatch
EU antitrust regulators want U.S. chipmaker Broadcom to scrap its exclusivity clauses with TV and modem makers to avoid irreparable harm to the market while they investigate whether this tactic and others are designed to block rivals.
Reuters
Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics will replace its CEO just three months after reappointing him, reflecting a rift among top management as ambitious purchases weigh on the company's finances.
Nikkei Asian Review
China's largest telecommunications operator China Mobile said on Tuesday it will set up a 30 billion yuan ($4.36 billion) 5G industry fund and has already raised the first installment of 7-10 billion yuan.
Reuters
Apple is expected to replace Intel chips that typically power MacBooks with ARM-based creations of its own, and we keep seeing rumors pointing in that direction.
BGR
Apple plans to expand its presence in Seattle by adding 2,000 new jobs in the city over the next five years, double the number it originally planned to hire.
CNN
Mass layoffs were planned for this Friday
The Verge
FedEx says it's not realistic to screen sealed packages for controlled tech.
Ars Technica
Prime Day is back and will last a record 48 hours next month from July 15-16, when Prime members can shop for more than one million deals.
Geek Wire
Qualcomm may have to pay a second big fine to the European Union over antitrust concerns for how it handled sales of 3G chips for mobile hotspot and dongles, just over a year after the chip maker was issued a $1.23 billion financial penalty for illegally shutting out modem rivals from supplying Apple.
Apple Insider
Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) is studying the feasibility of setting up a production site in Vietnam to roll out TV screens, according to the Saigon Times.
Focus Taiwan news channel
Bill Gates has a resume of career highs, but he calls Microsoft's failure to become Apple's chief iOS rival his "greatest mistake."
CNN
Walmart is using computer vision technology to monitor checkouts and deter potential theft and other causes of shrink in more than 1,000 stores, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
Business Insider
It'll reportedly have a pair of 9-inch screens and come out in early 2020.
CNET
The Trump administration added a quintet of companies to its Entity List last week, including the AMD joint venture Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Company (THATIC).
ZDNet
U.S. President Donald Trump is looking to require next-generation 5G cellular equipment used in the United States to be designed and manufactured outside China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters
We spoke to Vincent Pang, who said 5G's slow rollout, not US politics, is the reason behind the wait
Tech Radar
Chinese tech giant Huawei filed a civil lawsuit against the U.S. on Friday, saying the Commerce Department mishandled equipment from the company it had seized in 2017.
The Hill
Apple may use high-end OLED screens in more of its devices, not necessarily just because it wants to, but also because it may satisfy a penalty it supposedly owes to its OLED supplier, Samsung Display - after reportedly failing to buy enough iPhone screens to make good on its contract.
The Verge
The company has new midrange phones but don't expect to see them in many places outside of China.
CNET
"Consumers are in very good shape to borrow. Corporate debt is high," Moynihan said during an exclusive interview from the sidelines of the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, New York. "That's an issue. It's got to be dealt with."
CNN
Global financial institutions, including UBS Securities, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, recently released reports suggesting that SK hynix might end up in the red in the fourth quarter.
The Korea Herald
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