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The Trump administration on Wednesday took a tactical step in its trade confrontation with China, by releasing a rule that restricts government agencies from doing business with Huawei, the giant Chinese maker of telecommunications equipment and smartphones.
The New York Times
China has told India not to block its Huawei Technologies from doing business in the country, warning there could be consequences for Indian firms operating in China, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Reuters
China has said it is prepared to fight, if necessary. And it has one hugely powerful weapon up its sleeve: it's the American government's biggest creditor.
CNN
Japan's Toshiba reported on Wednesday a 10-fold jump in first-quarter operating profit as it stepped up cost cuts across divisions, but the profit missed analyst estimates.
Reuteres (via Extreme Tech)
Wide availability by the end of the month
The Verge
Lisa Su has denied this story.
WCCF Tech
Lenovo and Intel outlined a multi-year collaboration pact revolving around high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence.
ZDNet
HTC has stopped offering its phones for sale in the UK while it is involved in an intellectual property dispute.
BBC News
The trade war between the United States and China entered a more dangerous phase on Monday, as Beijing allowed its currency to weaken, Chinese enterprises stopped making new purchases of American farm goods and President Trump's Treasury Department formally labeled China a currency manipulator.
New York Times
After so many years of meh
PC World
Shares of chipmakers, retailers, Apple and Wynn Resorts tumble on fears that the U.S. and China's trade war is escalating.
CNBC
But don't expect to hitch a ride in the machine for several years.
engadget
Investors are so nervous about the trade war with China that they are frantically scooping up US government bonds and pushing yields sharply lower in the process.
CNN
IBM announced on Monday a new blockchain network aimed at improving manual and cumbersome supply chain management.
Reuters
List of vulnerable products purchased by the DoD includes Lexmark printers, GoPro cameras, and Lenovo computers.
ZDNet
The Trump administration on Monday designated China a "currency manipulator," after the country's central bank allowed its currency to weaken amid the ongoing trade dispute.
CNN
Foxconn is exploring the sale of its new US$8.8 billion display panel factory in China, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as demand for the product wanes amid an intensifying US-China trade war.
Reuters
Japan will remove South Korea from its list of trusted trade partners, deepening a bitter row between the two countries.
BBC News
Shares of Apple supplier Sharp tumbled 14% on Friday given concerns about an escalating China-U.S. trade war, even as the Japanese firm said a day earlier that it would build a plant in Vietnam to ease any impact on its business.
Reuters
You won't be able to buy Bitcoin with your Apple Card, and you'd better not hack the iPhone associated with your account.
CNET
New tariff plan wipes out $41 billion in market cap, as analyst sees as much as $3 billion hit to earnings
MarketWatch
There's a sense of panic within Japan Inc and the government - the world's No. 3 economy doesn't have enough experts in artificial intelligence and it's time to do something about it.
Reuters
Huawei is testing a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng, the company's self-developed operating system, which could potentially go on sale by the end of this year, Chinese state-media outlet Global Times reported.
Reuters
Ultimately Building 8 became Portal, a video-chat product that has failed to gain market traction.
CNBC
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will add a new tariff on $300 billion of Chinese-made products on September 1, which would effectively put a tax on all Chinese goods coming into the United States.
CNN
Google, once an exclusive partner for some of Intel's early server chip launches, is now rumored to be considering a swich to AMD's Epyc server platform, according to Lynx Equity Research.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The new tablet is designed to compete directly with Apple's iPad Pro.
ZDNet
South Korean chipmakers are hitting a dead end in their quest to find alternatives for key Japanese materials that have been slapped with export restrictions, raising the prospect of major disruption to their operations in the coming months.
Reuters
Intel has applied for licenses to sell some of its products to Huawei following the blacklisting of the Chinese technology giant and a subsequent easing of restrictions on the firm.
CNBC
Cisco has settled with federal, state and local agencies for $8.6 million in a first-of-its-kind whistleblower case involving cybersecurity issues.
CNBC
Huawei doubles down at home and starts taking share in 5G, and isn't using Qualcomm parts to do it
MarketWatch
Fitbit said the outlook change was due to weaker sales of its Versa Lite device.
CNBC
Game recognize game: It takes AI to know AI.
CNET
Even models dating back to 2016.
engadget
Qualcomm's quarterly revenue and profit forecast fell short of Wall Street targets, driven by Huawei's strong gains in the Chinese smartphone market.
Reuters (via Yahoo! Finance)
Trump's trade wars would directly impact console production
The Verge
The US-China trade war might be having a chilling effect on business investment, but it's not derailing the splurge in share buybacks.
CNN
Apple's iPhone made up less than half of the company's sales for the first time since 2012.
CNBC
Doctors have turned the brain signals for speech into written sentences in a research project that aims to transform how patients with severe disabilities communicate in the future.
The Guardian
Qualcomm and Tencent said on Monday they will cooperate on projects that could include making the Chinese company's videogames play better on devices with Qualcomm chips, and create a 5G version of a Tencent-backed gaming phone.
Reuters
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